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32 Market Place - 2012
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This property was once an inn or alehouse. For details see "The Old Inns of Olney" by Elizabeth Knight, published by Baracuda Books 1981 and available in the Olney library. The Red Lyon.

More information on the history of these Market Place properties during the period 1800 to the 1950s is available by selecting one of the ODHS 'Market Place Tours on the 'ODHS HERITAGE TRAILS' header web page, as per the following link:

https://www.mkheritage.org.uk/odhs/all-odhs-heritage-trails/

This ODHS website features a major article on the business of JW & E Sowmans. The article provides an insight into business from the late 1880's, when it was essentially an ironmongers, to the late 1930's, when it had extended into a comprehensive emporium, having added a radio shop, a garage, an agricultural machinery workshop and several other related businesses. A glimpse of the Olney Sowmans' family life is also provided through the provision of many family photographs.

Click here for more about the Sowman family who lived in the vicinity from the 1880s to the 1960s.

Listed building

The building is listed with particulars as follows.

Grade II LateCl8 altered. Stone, steep pitched slate roof with two large flat topped dormers with sash windows deep eaves with wooden cornice having pairs of shallow brackets. Two storeys, shop front to ground floor, three sash windows with keystones to first floor.
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The following photographs are available.  Click on a thumbnail to view full image or click see larger images here.


Market Place South - c.1910
No.32 Market Place - c.Spring 1889
Sowmans after acquiring No. 33 (on right) c.1900
Coronation of Edward V11 - 1901

Nos 32, 33 & 34 in the 1900s
Sowman employees outside No.32 - early 1900s
Rebuilt No.33 with new elevation & frontage
The new window at No.33 - c.1910

The pump and lamp opposite Nos. 32, 33 & 34
No.33 with display of cricket bats
No.33 promoting Shell Motor Spirit - c.1910
Mosaic in doorway of No. 33 - 2007

Ironmongery shop frontage - 2007
Nos. 32, 33 & 34 Market Place - 2007
No 32 Market Place - 2012 		 
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The following people are associated with 32 Market Place - 2012:

Name Year of Birth Year of Interest Source Occupation/Notes Probability
John W. SOWMAN 1861  1891 Census  Ironmonger  100%
W Moss   1910 Revenue Survey  Tenant  100%
JW & E Sowman   1910 Revenue Survey  Owner  100%
William Ernest Moss 1877  1911 Census  Tailor  100%
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