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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.

Market Place South - c.1910

No.32 Market Place - c.Spring 1889

Sowmans at no. 32, possibly shortly after acquiring No. 33 on the right c. 1900

Sowmans decorated for the Coronation of Edward V11 - 1901

Nos 32, 33 & 34 in the 1900s

J W & E Sowman employees outside No.32 Market Place - photo probably taken in the early 1900's.

Rebuilt No.33 with new elevation & frontage

The shop window of the new Sowman building at No.33 - c.1910. It is believed that Alfred Sowman is standing in the doorway and that it is his children standing outside.

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