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GaddsStores

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Gadd's Stores

 

William Thomas Gadd owned the shop and premises next to the Church from 1881 until his death in Littlehampton in 1920. Although his first name was William he was usually known as 'Tommy'. He had managed the shop for years before he purchased it. He is first recorded in the 1871 census as grocer at Church End, Yateley.

 

In the 1851 census Charles Barrow, who owned the same premises, described himself as grocer and baker, born in Wickham Market, Suffolk. When Barrow purchased the property in 1848 he described himself a grocer of Cheshunt, Herts. The vendor in 1848 was Aaron Bosley, described in the court books as a shopkeeper, then deceased, Bosley had purchased the "Buildings Stable Garden and Premises" in 1838, and his occupation recorded in the 1841 census is `grocer'. Before 1838 Chaddisbrooke was owned as an investment by Edward James Mascall of Barclay House. It seems probable that the grocery shop could have originated long before that date.

 

W T Gadd was described in White's Directory of 1878 as grocer, baker, draper and agent for the Liverpool and London & Globe Insurance Co. When St Peter's was renovated in 1878 the Bishop and his entourage used Gadd's drawing room for robing, whilst the choir used Gadd's hall. In 1891 William Gadd described himself as postmaster and grocer. Ten years previously James Rogers had been postmaster which suggests that the very old shop at the eastern (right hand) side of the White Lion was the the Post Office in 1881. W T Gadd bought this shop from the Kenward the brewer in 1886 and in so doing may have purchased the Post Office business which he then transferred across the road. From Ordnance Survey maps we can be sure that the Post Office in which Flora worked in 1901 was the front room of Chaddisbrooke, with access to the General Store. The shop was called Gadd & Co, a company which rented the premises from Mr Gadd personally. William Bettesworth was then Mr Gadd's shop manager, living in Chaddisbrooke, with Flora Thompson, née Timms as his lodger.

 

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Page written by Peter Tipton for the Yateley Society's 2003 Exhibition: Adult Education in Yateley mounted in Yateley Library during Local History Month, for which the theme was Adult Education. This exhibition was held in conjunction with Yateley Workers Education Association (WEA) -- now in 2008 defunct. Pages may have been updated as a result of recent research.

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