William Harper Butchers / Mitson's Cycles
Shop History
1974 |
Shop demolished to make way for the Rookery Shopping Centre |
1936 |
Mitson's Cycle and Radio Dealers |
1926 |
A.H. Mitson - Newmarket Street Directory |
1925 |
Mitson, Harry, cycle manufacturer, Wellington Street - Nkt.64 - Kelly's Directory |
1916 |
Mitson, Albert & Harry, cycle agents, Wellington Street - Kelly's Directory |
1911 |
Cycle Shop - Census |
1904 |
Mitson, Albert & Harry, cycle agents, Wellington Street - Kelly's Directory |
1901 |
Mitson, H. & A., Wellington Cycle Works, Wellington Street |
October 1900 |
Cycle shop and work-shop, Wellington St., for A. & H. Mitson - planning details |
1892 |
Harper, William, butcher, Wellington Street - Kelly's Directory |
1889 |
Thomas Tebbutt Cunnington died |
1881 |
Thomas Cunnington, Butcher, Wellington Street - Census |
1874 |
Cunnington Thomas Tebbutt, butcher, Wellington Street - White's Directory |
1871 |
Thomas Cunnington, Butcher, Wellington Street - Census |
1861 |
Thomas T. Cunnington, Butcher, Wellington Street - Census |
Notes
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Norwich born butcher Thomas Tebbutt Cunnington can be seen on the 1861 census
in Wellington Street and then on subsequent censuses in Wellington
Street next to Albion Street until his death in
1889.
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William John Harper (b. 1868 Barrington), the great-grandfather of
Grant Powter (owner of Powter's
Butchers) came to Newmarket in 1881 as an apprentice to Thomas.
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When Thomas died in 1889 he left his estate to his second wife Eliza who carrried on managing the butchers
for a few years with William as butcher's foreman. William appears
to have taken over the shop; as in Kelly's Directory of 1892 he's
shown as owning his own butchers in Wellington Street.
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Interestingly on the 1891 census William is working alongside
another butcher's apprentice - Frank Edwin Musk (aka Edwin Frank
Musk), younger brother of James Musk, who later became the owner of Musk's
Butchers.
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It appears that sometime after the above photo was taken and before
October 1900 William moved his shop to the building next door on the
left and after he retired that shop became Murton's
Butchers.
This particular building became Mitson's Cycle shop in October 1900.
- William's business was next owned by son-in-law Herbert 'Horace'
James Hawes,
renamed H.J. Hawes Pork Shop and moved to
its well-known location next
to Drapery Row. Subsequently Ken Powter took over the Pork Shop from his father-in-law in
1965, re-named it again to Powter's
and moved it to its present location in No.11
Wellington Street.
- Suffolk
Record Office, Bury St Edmunds Branch
Newmarket Urban District Council Records
Reference EF 506- Cycle shop and work-shop, Wellington St, for A. & H. Mitson (Holland & Son) EF 506/6/1/6/9 Oct 1900
- Motor garage shed in Wellington St, for A. & H. Mitson EF 506/6/1/17/570 Oct 1920
- WC and larders, Mabille House, Wellington St, for H. Mitson EF 506/6/1/17/587 Mar 1921