Gwalia Stores - Ogmore Vale to Cardiff, Wales.
N 51° 29.263 W 003° 16.632
30U E 480753 N 5704099
Gwalia, a typical general store closed in 1973 and was relocated from the South Wales industrial valleys in 1988 to Cardiff, Capitol of Wales.
Waymark Code: WME93V
Location: South Wales, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 04/21/2012
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"The Gwalia Store 0pened in 1880, by William Llewellyn who developed his grocery business by building this shop. The original building was just the central section, flanked by the storeroom and Llewellyn's house.
The shop was fitted with mahogany shelving, counters and bins by Parnalls of Bristol, and by 1912 the ground floor of the house had been taken over and a drapery established. The shop soon expanded to include the first floor and the ground floor of the adjoining three houses.
By 1916, Gwalia Stores comprised a bakery, ironmongery, grocery, gentlemen's outfitters, chemist and a section selling animal feeds. Members of staff slept in the attics and were paid 8 shillings (40p) per week.
Alderman Llewellyn died in 1924 and the shop has been shown as it would have been in the late 1920s in the ownership of his sons. It closed in 1973 and was moved to the museum in 1988."
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Gwalia stores is a grade 2 listed building and now a tea shop at St Fagans: National History Museum, St Fagans Cardiff.