Sîop Miles, Stop&Call

Yn sefyll, chwith i’r dde/ Standing left to right - Mr Ken Williams, Mr Billy Davies, Mr Emlyn Evans. Res flaen chwith i’r dde / Front row, left to right - Tommy, Dai & Peter Miles. | Casgliad Canolfan Treftadaeth ‘Ein Hanes’ Heritage Centre Collection.
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Yn sefyll, chwith i’r dde/ Standing left to right - Mr Ken Williams, Mr Billy Davies, Mr Emlyn Evans. Res flaen chwith i’r dde / Front row, left to right - Tommy, Dai & Peter Miles.
Casgliad Canolfan Treftadaeth ‘Ein Hanes’ Heritage Centre Collection.
Yng nghyfrifiad 1911 yr oedd Tommy Miles yn 19 oed ac yn torri gwallt gyda'i dad yn y busnes teuluol yn Wdig. Erbyn hyn, roedd ei fam wedi marw, ond roedd Lily, chwaer Tommy yn edrych ar ôl ei thad a'i brawd. Roedd hi'n briod - Mrs Lily Cook oedd ei henw priod. / In the 1911 census, 19 old Tommy Miles was cutting hair with his father in the family business. Old William Miles was a widower, but Lily, his daughter, was keeping house for him and brother. She was married, and was Mrs Lily Cook. | The County Echo 3-9-1908
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Yng nghyfrifiad 1911 yr oedd Tommy Miles yn 19 oed ac yn torri gwallt gyda'i dad yn y busnes teuluol yn Wdig. Erbyn hyn, roedd ei fam wedi marw, ond roedd Lily, chwaer Tommy yn edrych ar ôl ei thad a'i brawd. Roedd hi'n briod - Mrs Lily Cook oedd ei henw priod. / In the 1911 census, 19 old Tommy Miles was cutting hair with his father in the family business. Old William Miles was a widower, but Lily, his daughter, was keeping house for him and brother. She was married, and was Mrs Lily Cook.
The County Echo 3-9-1908
Y brodyr Miles fyddai’n cadw’r sîop yn Stop&Call am flynyddoedd. Byddent yn cadw gardd dda y tu ôl i’r tŷ ac yn gwerthu pob math o lysiau yn y siop.

Cyn agor y siop yn Stop& Call, byddai Tommy yn helpu ei dad yn y siop trin gwallt yn y Dyffryn. I weld llun eu siop, gwasgwch yma.

Am lun arall o Stop&Call, gwasgwch yma.

The Miles brothers kept the shop at Stop&Call for years. They were excellent gardeners and had a garden behind the house. They would sell all kinds of vegetables in the shop.

Before they opened for business at Stop& Call, Tommy was employed at a different premises, at Dyffryn, cutting hair with his father. To see a photo of the shop, press here.

For another picture of Stop&Call  press here.

Time period
C.1990
Page last edited
28/01/2024

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  • I’m Dai’s grandson, and you’re right, they moved to live with us in Llancarfan for many years and then moved back to Goodwick in a house on Glanymor Road until they died. Dat, as I called him was a larger than life character and I miss him. Emlyn was a top man as well, still riding his BSA Bantam motorbike up and down Goodwick Hill well into his 70’s.
    Cheers for this, it made my day.

    By Ben van Koningsveld (20/02/2024)

  • From childhood memory Dai and Gladys ran the shop. Peter, I think, worked in Trecwn until retirement. I used to help in the garden, probably the most fertile ground in Pembrokeshire. I remember throwing manure over the wall alongside the lane. They also had gardens behind the warehouse, where the paraffin tank was kept, and behind the cottage next door down from the shop. The shop sold pretty well everything – the place to go to for sweets ( Bazuka chewing gum and flying saucers )!
    Dai was a keen handyman and his workshop was always full of projects. My father spent many an hour there.
    On retiring they moved to Llancarfan in the Vale of Glamorgan to be near their children.

    By Mostyn Jenkins (28/12/2023)

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