Exhibition panel from the ‘Pryce Jones Legacy Exhibition’ originally held at Newtown Library in May 2026, on the life and legacy of Sir Pryce Pryce-Jones (1834-1920).

This panel explains how, by 1879, Pryce Jones expanded his pioneering mail order business into a vast new headquarters: the Royal Welsh Warehouse beside Newtown Railway Station. It highlights how the warehouse was purpose built to handle large scale orders, supported by rail transport, and how the business grew to serve over 100,000 customers with made to measure clothing and home furnishings. The panel shows the scale, ambition, and modernity of Jones’s operation, presenting the warehouse as a landmark achievement that helped shape the future of global mail order retailing.