A Pryce-Jones building in Newtown
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A Pryce-Jones building in Newtown
Image: © Jeremy Bolwell Taken: 18 Feb 2012
The date of this edifice is 1895 and it marks the high water mark maybe of the Pryce-Jones mail order company when his mail order operation spanned the globe and was set fair for the coming decades, until maybe the Great War and its foul aftermath. Mid Wales did not boast many six-storey buildings in 1895 or buildings that would not look out of place in Cardiff or Swansea in that year, but this is one, and it is just one of a cluster of massive redbrick corporate statements housing what must surely have been the town's largest single employer in 1895. Today there seems to be a gym in there along with a bowling operation and who knows what.
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Image Location
Latitude
52.512775
Longitude
-3.310227