The Southend
No 3.
Tithe Map Plot No 259.
A Grade 2 Listed Building (listed together with No 4).
C18. Stuccoed. Bands between floors. 3 storeys. let and 2nd floors, 6 sash
windows with glazing bars. No 4 has a good early Cl9 shop front with pilasters,
frieze and wide cornice, and large windows with glazing curving inwards to central
glazed and panelled door with rectangular fanlight. No 3 has large modern shop
front with high fascia.
Note from the listing the building had a new shop front in the early 1800's.
A chemist's shop in 1851 and 1861 with Thomas Freeman (he crops up in the Iron Church story) in charge.
From 1871 to 1939 the shop was a saddlers under various names: Parlour, Burrows, Clare and Ford.
With little call for saddles in 1940 it became a grocery store known as Melias & Co. and from 1977 it was the Ledbury Tackle Centre.
Now Amore Hair Salon.
1839 Tithe Map Owner Philip John Miles. Occupant Thomas Oakley.
1841 Thomas Oakley 40 Brushmaker.
1851 John Cann Bills, 21, Assistant to Chemist and Druggist.
1861 Thomas W Freeman, 54, Chemist Druggist and Grocer.
1871 Henry Charles Parlour, 44, Saddler.
1881 Sophia H Parlour, 55, Saddler.
1891 William H Burrows, 31, Saddler.
1901 William H Burrows, 38, Saddler.
1911 Harry Whyld 44 Newspaper Manager. Property Description: 6 Rooms.
Ex Tilley's
1903 Clare T Saddler H W Burrows manager
1906 Clare T Saddler H W Burrows manager see advert
1910 Ford & Sons Saddlers. “ Guardian” Office Whyld H B, manager.
1921 Ford & Sons Saddlers. “ Guardian” Office Bolwell F, manager.
1923 Ford & Sons Saddlers. “ Reporter and Guardian” Office Bowes W S, manager.
1940 Melias & Co Manager H G Pither
1950 Melias & Co Grocers Manager F Inwood
1968 Melias & Co Grocers Manager B Jones
1976 Melias & Co Grocers
1977 Ledbury Tackle Centre
1984 Allsop F W J Ledbury Tackle Centre
1999 Tackle Centre
2002 Tackle Centre Saddle Bound Cyles
More Info.
Thomas Oakley (1841) married Martha Goode, in London on 21st December 1826, she was the youngest daughter of Mr John Goode of Sheer Glatt, Herefordshire. They had George in 1831, Olive in 1836 and Octavia in 1839.
He died in 1848, a notice of his death is in the Worcester Chronicle of 20th December 1848:
Dec 16th at Ledbury, aged 49, Thomas Oakley upholsterer and brush manufacturer. The deceased has for many years been a highly respectable tradesman in that town.
Thomas Freeman (1861) 54 Chemist, Druggist and Grocer. Moved to Ledbury between 1851 and 1854 where his wife Mary Ann died in the Southend.
Now 48, he wasted little time before marrying Jane Webb, nee Williamson, 26 a butcher in Southend in 1855. A widow she had married Benjamin Webb, a butcher in Bye Street in 1848, they had moved to the Southend by the time Benjamin died in 1853.
Thomas and Jane had two children: Kate in 1856, she married in 1879 (see Iron Church) and Jane in 1868 (died 1893). Moving to the High Street, still a chemist, by 1871 he died in 1888 in Albert Road.
Henry Charles Parlour (1871) 44 Saddler. Moved from the High Street sometime after 1861, from Newent married to Sophia Hayward Reeves 45 with Frances Margaret b 1852 ,Emily Maria b 1854 , Henry Charles b 1854, Alice Sophia died in 1913.
William Henry Burrows (1891,1901) 31 Saddler. From Stratford on Avon, he married Matilda Preece in Ledbury in 1887. They had Stanley in 1888 and Harold in 1900. Moved to Malvern Link By 1911 as a Coach Builders Manager.
Harry Whyld (1911) 44 Newspaper Manager. From London with wife Elizabeth.
In the High Street as a saddler in 1871 Charles Philemon Ford moved to 4 New Street (next door to Hamptons, see No 1) after he married Emma Hodges of New Street in 1872. She died in 1895 aged 52 They had Minnie in 1875 and Arthur Charles in 1879. Charles Philemon died in New Street in 1924 aged 82, Minnie in 1936 in New Street.
In 1911 both father and son are saddlers and employers.
Arthur Charles married Mary Jane Hill in 1907 they had Cicely Mary in 1908.
Settled in Belle Orchard in 1911 he is doubtless managing the shop in the Southend whilst Mr Whyld is living over the shop. Arthur died in 1948, Mary Jane in 1952 aged 67.
1926 Electoral Register Hawkins George Stanley
1939 Register Hedley Pither, 33.