Pryce Jones: Heritage Hub 4 Mid Wales
This is a social history project set up by the Heritage Hub 4 Mid Wales as part of the wider project ‘Powys Pioneers’.
This account focuses on the life and legacy of Pryce Jones (1834-1920) a humble drapers apprentice at twelve years old during Newtown & Llanllwchaiarn Welsh woolen textile industrial revival of the 19th Century.
This account focuses on the life and legacy of Pryce Jones (1834-1920) a humble drapers apprentice at twelve years old during Newtown & Llanllwchaiarn Welsh woolen textile industrial revival of the 19th Century.
Date Joined:
22/06/2026
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Exhibition panels from the ‘Pryce Jones Legacy Exhibition’ 2026
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10. 1920 – Sir Pryce Jones’s family sell Pryce Jones Ltd
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9. 1910 Pryce jones Canada Ltd
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8. 1895 – Pryce Jones & Sons building Pryce Jones Ltd business empire
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7. 1887 – Knighted by queen Victoria patron of the Pryce Jones Royal Welsh Warehouse
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6. 1879 – Pryce Jones opens the Royal Welsh Warehouse
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5. Pryce jones opens his first royal Welsh Warehouse
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4. 1860s – Pryce jones supplies cloaks & raises funds for the poor
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3. 1859 – Pryce Jones marries Eleanor and starts his mail orders enterprise
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2. Pryce Jones draper’s apprenticeships at Mr David’ Cross Shop, broad Street (Newtown)
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1. Newtown the birthplace of Pryce Jones and his pioneering mail order enterprise.
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