6 High Street
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6 High Street
Cancer Charity Shop
25 May 2023
Before and After Images
1979/80
2016
About the building
Source : Local History Survey 1980Backs onto the old Town Wall.
The Hotel had eight bedrooms.
Recent history
25 May 2023 : Cancer Charity Shop (moved from 2 High Street)From ?? to late 2020 Edinburgh Woollen Mill – chain of shops owned by Dubai-based Philip Day, in administration along with Bon Marche, also Peacocks/Jaeger chain. (in late 2022 EWM re-opened in Cibi Walk precinct in the space previously used by Superdrug)
At time of last Local History Survey in 1980 : Occupied by A G Pinch & Sons Ltd, a bakery, rented from 1961.
In 1984: Occupied by ‘Jungles’ – fancy goods and clothes. Pinches then moved, with their bakery, to 16 Cross Street.
Occupied from 1937 to 1961 by Alec Sayce (*The Syaces were still the freeholders in 1984 : Abergavenny Pubs Frank Olding)
Previous occupiers
Year
Name
Detail
Source
1937
Alec Sayce (from 1937-1961)
Victoria Cafe & Hotel
Kelly/ Abergavenny Pubs Frank Olding
1934
Kelly
1930
Prop: F Woodhead (from 1923-1931)
Victoria Temperance Hotel and Dining Rooms
Car/Npt & Dis
1926
Prop: F Woodhead
as above
Kelly
1923
Prop: F Woodhead
as above
Kelly
1920
Prop: F Woodhead
as above
Kelly
1914
Prop: Charles H Sayce
as above
Kelly
1910
Prop: Charles H Sayce
as above
Kelly
1906
Prop: Charles H Sayce
as above
Kelly
1901
Prop: Charles H Sayce
as above
Kelly
1895
Kelly
1891
Joseph Clare & Son
Watchmakers, jewellers, fishing tackle and photographic studio
Kelly
1884
Joseph Clare & Son
as above
Kelly
1879
G Wallington
Saddler
Thacker
1877
G Wallington
as above
Owen
1875
G Wallington
as above
Mer & Croc
1871
G Wallington
as above
Kelly
1865
G Wallington
as above
Webster
1858
Timothy Wallington
as above
Slater
1850
Timothy Wallington
as above
Pigot
1844
Timothy Wallington
as above
Slater
1836
Timothy Wallington
as above
Pigot
1822
Timothy Wallington
as above
Pigot & Thacker
Other information
Edinburgh Woollen Mill founded by Drew Stevenson in 1946 as the Langholm Dyeing and Finishing Company. Following a chequered history, the company was taken over by a management buy-in in the early 2000s, and today is wholly owned by the Day family. (source : ewm.co.uk)Source : Local History Survey 1980
F Woodhead rented the building from Sayce’s.
Timothy Wallington was also at 12 Frogmore Street 1858 – 1865. Mrs Sarah Wallington 12 Frogmore Street 1865 – 1871.
In 1914: was also occupied by D F Boodle, artificial tooth maker
In 1891: was also occupied by John J Cox, clothier
Joseph Clare & Son moved to no. 6 from no. 21 in 1891.
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