Webbs of Crickhowell
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Webbs of Crickhowell
Image: © Jaggery Taken: 20 Jan 2019
A small part of the family-owned department store viewed across the A40 High Street. The business's website records that Herbert Webb started this family-run business in 1936, with a paraffin round in and around the Crickhowell, Abergavenny and Brynmawr areas. He borrowed £10 (the equivalent value in 2019 is about £700) from his mother to get himself started, paid her back after the first week and the business has just grown from strength to strength. Herbie often jokingly said "If I'd had a puncture in the first few weeks I was in business I would have gone bankrupt".
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Image Location
Latitude
51.85931
Longitude
-3.137371