43 & 43A Frogmore Street
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Date when first used by present occupier:
43 & 43A Frogmore Street
Il Gusto , Italian Restaurant
opening 3 October 2024
1st & 2nd floors: Gwagle moving here 2022 ?date ?feb/mar
Before and After Images
1979/80
2016
About the building

In about 1984, the building here was demolished and the present one erected. The front still stands, but the rear was demolished & rebuilt in 1979.
A photograph of the ‘George Hotel’ is in the Abergavenny Museum, showing the proportions of the building have hardly altered. Victorian Neo-Venetian, cast iron framework allows a light & airy building reminiscent of the style of the Crystal Palace. The slender pillars are probably reinforced. (L Hurley)
Advertisement in 1825: To be let….All that Messuage, Tenement and Dwelling House, called the Little George Inn, with suitable offices, Cellars, and 3 excellent stables, eligibly situate on Frogmore Street.
Recent history
3 October 2024 : Il Gusto. New owners?from approx. 2022 : Amos Italian/Greek restaurant. Closed by Sept. 2024
Also 1st /2nd floors : from approx Feb/Mar 2022: Gwagle “flexible shared workspace”. These floors “empty for decades”
June 2021: Closed ?? 2022 : Panevino Italian Restaurant ; already in Chepstow
Prezzo Italian restaurant chain: From ?2016 – Closed April 2018 : Company failing, closing many branches throughout UK including Abergavenny which appeared to be unsustainable. ( 3 storey building, to rent £50K pa + £32K business rates; 4448 sq ft ground floor; 798 sq ft 1st fl; 812 sq ft 2nd fl / emanuel-jones.co.uk)
1979: Kwik-Save Supermarket on ground floor, other floors, offices and stores.
Aug 1972 – Jan 1978: Wasons Decorators Merchants
1970: No 43A & filled in arch: Co-operative Retail Store store opened December 1970, Jackson & Daly closing down Feb 1970, curtain materials & furnishing frabric.
1968: Jackson & Daly, phone number 4, furniture
1962, 1964, 1967: Jackson & Daly, furniture
1961: Jackson & Daly, family furnishers, 3 Feb page 7 photo Abergavenny Chronicle 43A: The Abergavenny & District Co-operative Society Ltd, dry goods, official opening dry goods store, 28 October.
1952: Jackson & Daly, furnishings
1945- 1970: No 43: Jackson & Daly, Furniture Dealers
1912- 1967: No 43A: Mr Edward Harrington,, Photographer
Previous occupiers
Year
Name
Detail
Source
1970
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Kelly
1937
43: Charles Downes (tel no P/O 103)
43A Harrington, Photographer
Cabinet Maker, furnisher, upholsterer, window blind dealer
Kelly
1934
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Kelly
1930
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Car/Npt & Dis
1926
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also at 43A: 1927 – 1928: A Lyons, Jeweller
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Kelly
1923
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Kelly
1920
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Kelly
1914
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Kelly
1910
43: Charles Downes
43A:1901-1912: Eddie Madge, Photographer
Cabinet Maker, furnisher, upholsterer, window blind dealer
Kelly
1909
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Kelly
1906
Cooke & Davies
Tailors & Drapers
Kelly
1901
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Kelly
1895
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Kelly
1891
Mr Reuben Embrey
Shopkeeper
Kelly
1884
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Kelly
1879
Mrs Addiss
Laundress
Thacker
1877
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Owen
1875
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Mer & Croc
1871
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Kelly
> 1868
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1865
Prop: William George Martin
George Commercial Hotel
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1862
Prop: Joseph James Stephens
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Morris & Co
1858
Prop: Thomas Price
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Slater
1850
Prop: Henry Sauderson
George Commercial & Agricultural Hotel
Pigot
1845
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Pigot
1844
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Slater
1841
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Slater
1835
Prop: John Holehouse
George Inn & Ball Court
Pigot
1834-45
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Pigot
1834
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Car/Npt & Dis
1822
Prop: Evan Saunders
Little George Tavern
Pigot
1791
Prop: J Phillips
New George Inn
Pigot
Other information

1838: The Cymreiggydion Society held dinners here
1839: Rate book shows the premises named the George Inn (owner: Mr John Hobhouse)with a stable and ball court. 1840: Recommended in Cambrian Travellers Guide as one of the principal Inns. 1841: Theatrical performance of ‘The Lady of Lyons’ in Harris’ Ball Court. 1842: A new coach ‘The Prince of Wales’ connected at Bristol with the Londond/Brecon/London coach. 13 hours. daily except Sundays. (South Wales General Advertiser found in Crickhowell 1960)
The inn is not listed after 1895. A/22-71 (Abergavenny Museum) dated to 1875 or before, shows it empty & a poster on the door advertises “The Brooks”, changed to ‘Nevill Court’ in 1875.
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