Mae’r brif stryd yn Wdig wedi gweld llawer o fywyd dros y degawdau ers y tŵf sylweddol a gafwyd ym mhwysigrwydd y dre ar ddechrau yr ugeinfed ganrif. Mae sawl erthygl ar y wefan hon yn ymwneud â siopau a busnesau unigol ar hyd y stryd. Isod ceir restr enwau’r busnesau a oedd ar hyd ‘Main Street’ tua hanner canrif yn ôl. Mae deunaw o siopau gan gynnwys tri cigydd!(Roedd cigydd arall yn Quay Road – Siop Mr Betty) Nid yw’r restr yn gyflawn, ond mae’n ymddangos nawr yn y gobaith y bydd mwy o wybodaeth yn dod i’r golwg yn fuan. Cofiwch anfon gair (wrth wasgu y botwm ‘sylwadau’ ar waelod yr erthygl) os fedrwch chi helpu. Am wybodaeth ynghylch siopau Wdig yn yr 1925-40 gwasgwch yma. Mae gwybodaeth am siopau a busnesau Wdig cyn 1920 yma. | ‘Main street’, Goodwick, has seen a lot of life over the decades since the significant growth in the importance of the town at the beginning of the twentieth century. There are several articles on this website relating to individual shops and businesses along the street. Below is a list of names of the businesses that were along ‘Main Street‘ around half a century ago. Eighteen shops are listed including three butchers! (There was another Butcher’s shop in Quay Road – Mr Betty’s Shop) The list is not complete, but it is shown here in the hope that more information will come to light soon. Remember to add what you can (by pressing the ‘comment’ button at the bottom of the article) if you can add more information. For information about Goodwick shops in the 1925-40, click here. Information about shops and businesses at Goodwick pre 1920 are here. |
On the Fishguard side of Main St, going towards Dyffryn –
Rose & Crown – public house.
Hope & Anchor – public house.
Miss Law’s cafe which later became ‘Tate’s Brasserie’, run by the Richards family, and later still,‘Farmhouse Kitchen’. (The last couple to run a business here were Mr & Mrs Gwil Evans. The premises is now residential).
•DS Evans the chemist– previously established by D L Llewellyn. Mr Haydn John then took over for many years, and then Mr Hugh Morgan of Pantygwartheg, Llanychaer was the pharmacist.
•Harrington’s news agent.
Bus shelter.
The Square.
Midland Bank( though a larger branch had previously existed opposite Swansea House)
•Gough’s Hardware – (then became The Decorating Centre and later Post Office & genersl store)
•The Co~op.
•Llewellyn’s Grocers
•Roy Williams Electricals, Toys Bicycles etc.
•Mrs Blanch Venables’ Ladies clothes shop.
•Venables Shop selling sweets, with a barber’s shop in the rear and hair dresser above.
•Mrs Nicholas – very old style clothes shop, jeans etc….. which became Marina’s hairdressers?)
•The next shop was inherited by Mrs Joyce Cousins and she ran it as The Fashion Spot – ladies wear.
•Mr Rees’s grocery shop which then became Mr Lean’s, and finally Mrs Moira Jackman’s shop. Gordon & Nan Davies (nee Cotton) of Trefin also ran this shop (Central Stores / London House) before Mr & Mrs Parr took over.
•Mr Nicholas hardware shop selling paraffin etc. Goedwig Baptist Chapel.
In the terrace that followed was –
Preswylfa – private dwelling.
•Kynance – Jock & Dorothy Robinson and family ran a news agent & small grocery shop.
•A small hardware shop run by an old lady.
•A Cake & Bakery shop.
Goodwick Police Station with living quarters for staff above.
On the opposite side of the street, going back up-
The Post Office – possibly the first at Goodwick… a house in the terrace with a bay window either side of the front door. Now called Goedwig House.
Bethesda Chapel – English Baptist, opened 25-7-1909.
•Mr John Williams, Butcher.
•Mr Meurig Jenkins, Butcher
Mr Willie John, Undertaker. (This became the library and is now Kinver Kreations) Mr John would use the large windows to put his carpentry skills on display.
Dr Croxford’s surgery
Barclays Bank.
•Mr Melbie Jenkins, Butcher.
Swansea House – Mr John the tailor and drapers for many years.
Glendower Club
Updates
There was wool shop in Main Street for a few years during the 60’s run by Babs and Viv Lawrence. They lived at Noddfa about half way along the street.
Mr Irfon Walters kept a hardware shop next to Goedwig Chapel. Jock & Dorothy Robertson of Kynance had a paper and sweet shop opposite Goedwig chapel. Hilary Gough’s parents had a hardware shop where the post office is today.
On Quay Rd, next to the Institute where the old, original library was, there was Hywel Williams the Cobbler’s shop and The Arcade clothes shop which was a branch of Paris House Fishguard. (The institute had snooker tables in it.) A ladies hairdressing shop called ‘Marina’s’ opened on Quay Road, which later moved to Main St and also included a gift shop. The ladies working at the hairdressers were Marina & Gwen. This was next to Mrs Joyce Cousins’ ladies ‘Fashion Spot’.
At the end of St David’s Place Miss Peggy Reynolds ran a sweets and tobacco shop. Mr Alwyn Reynolds had been a baker at the premises when Peggy’s parents, Will & Martha Reynolds, were also there, but eventually, baking came to an end and the ovens lay dormant.
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