Nos 5 & 6 Market Place, 2012
At the time of the Levies, Number 6 Market Place (the part of the building to the right of the lamp post in the photograph) was occupied successively by Mrs Lovell, Mrs Dickens and John Robinson. By 1841 Charles Robertson lived on the premises with his wife, Harriet, and five sons and four daughters. Charles worked as a Saddler .
Nos 5 & 6 Market Place on the left, also showing the lamp mounted on the pump on the right – 1890s
William Clarabut took over Number 5 and during his time purchased Number 6, probably from Charles Robertson, adding it to his growing establishment.
In the 1910 Revenue Survey, William Clarabut is recorded as the owner/occupier and advertising at the time indicated that drapery was undertaken in Number 5 and tailoring in Number 6.
It would appear from the 1911 Census that Charles Mortimer Allen, aged 34, had taken over the business. Charles, the son of a Baptist Minister, lived on the premises with his wife Katy, two sons and a daughter. Two boarders, a dressmaker and an assistant, were also living there.
Nos 5 & 6 Market Place on the right c.1920
Charles engaged a partner, Charles Cook, as in 1939 the business was advertised as ‘Allen and Cook Drapers’, but presumably this partnership did not last long as the business soon reverted to ‘Allens of Olney’.
The 1936 Register of Electors records Charles and Katie Allen residing at Nos 5 & 6 Market Place. By 1951 the Allens had moved to ‘Hawthorns’ at 93 Weston Road and Emma Mary Snow is recorded as residing at Nos 5 & 6 Market Place.
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Associated images and advertisements:
Advertisement appeared in Ratcliff’s 1907 ‘Olney, Bucks’ Almanack
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Sketch of Clarabut’s Frontage as it appeared in Ratcliff’s 1907 ‘Olney, Bucks’ Almanack
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