39–42 Cornmarket
All four shops in this block are Grade II listed. No. 39 on the right probably has an ancient core with a nineteenth-century front; No. 40 is a seventeenth-century structure refronted in the eighteenth-century; and Nos. 41 and 42 are a pair of seventeenth-century houses that were probably refronted in the eighteenth century and which now have a modern restored front.
The shops were occupied as follows in 1772, when a survey of every house in the city was taken in consequence of the Mileways Act of 1771:
- 39: Mr Roberts (frontage 3 yards, 0 ft. and 4 in.)
- 40: Mr Becket (frontage 3 yards, 1 ft. and 9 in.
- 41: Mr Bartlet (frontage 4 yards, 1 ft. and 4 in.)
- 42: Mrs Cole (frontage 3 yards, 2 ft. and 5 in.)
The Blue Lion pub was at No. 41 in the first half of the nineteenth century, until 1845. The last landlord was George Garlick, the baker from next door, and the two shops then combined to form a wine & spirit merchant’s.
In 1961 No.s 41 and 42 were converted into one shop by Salisbury’s handbags.
In the Censuses
1841
No. 39: The bookbinder John Graham (25) is living here with Anne (26) and Anne (2) and William (3 months). They have a female servant aged 14.
No. 40: The cordwainer William Lillingston (35) is living here with his wife Catherine (25) and their son William (6). They have one female servant.
No. 41: The victualler of the Blue Lion, James Prior (40), is living here with Eliza (40) and Emma (9) and Harriet (6). Living with the family is one female servant, and an independent lady aged 50.
No. 42: The grocer George Garlick (30) is living here with Anne (30) and Lucy (40, plus and apprentice shopman and one male and one female servant.
1851
No. 39: Silas Butler (31), a baker & pastry cook, is living over this shop with his wife Eliza (28) and son John Wesley Butler (5). His 16-year-old apprentice, Thomas Gomm, lives with the family, and they have a lodger: Louisa Giles (24), described as the wife of a college servant, and her daughter Julia (10 months).
No. 40: Kate Lillingston (35), a widow, born in Southampton, who is described as a cordwainer employing 18 men and 12 boys, is living here with her son William (15), who is “working in the business”, a shopwoman aged 27, and a housemaid.
No. 41: Not listed: presumably part of the Shillingford & Phillips business premises to the south, with the staff living over the adjoining shop at No. 42
No. 42: John C. Blake (30), described as a wine merchant, is living over this side of the shop with his wife Louisa (30) and two wine merchant’s clerks. They have one servant.
1861
No. 39: William Randall Mattherson (28), a robe maker, is living here with his wife Elizabeth (32) and his daughter Elizabeth, and his step-children Fanny and William Gardiner (12 and 6). The family has a 14-year-old female house servant.
No. 40: Described as uninhabited.
No. 41: Described as uninhabited again.
No. 42: Jane Steane (64), described as the widow of a wine merchant, is living here with her bachelor son James Slatter Steane (32), a wine merchant. They have one female servant.
1881
No. 39: The building is described as “uninhabited”, implying that the upstairs was part of the tailor’s shop
No. 40: No. 40 is jointly occupied with No. 41 to the south by Frederick Blagrove (40), described as a watch-maker & jeweller, and his wife Ellen (32) and daughters Alice (14), Beatrice (7), and Ella (4).
No. 41: Described as uninhabited again.
No. 42: Jane Steane (64), described as the widow of a wine merchant, is living here with her bachelor son James Slatter Steane (32), a wine merchant. They have one female servant.
Occupants of 39–42 Cornmarket listed in directories etc. |
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Date |
No. 42 |
No. 41 |
No. 40 |
No. 39 |
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1839 |
William Roberts |
BLUE LION Landlords Thomas Bartlett (1794) |
William Lillingston |
William Wise |
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1841 |
George Garlick |
John Graham |
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1846 |
Shillingford & Phillips |
Thomas Lord |
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1851–1852 |
Silas Butler |
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1861 |
James Slatter Steane & Co. |
Part of either |
William Randall |
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1867 |
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E. Brailsford |
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1872 |
L. Solomon |
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1880 |
F. Blagrove |
R. T. Hobbs |
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1890 |
Walter Tompson |
F. Blagrove
E. Issott & Sons
F. Blagrove & Co |
George Bland George E. Bland from 1911 |
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1896–1902 |
William Mayo |
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1911 |
William Mayo, Wine & spirit merchants |
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1914 |
Millin & Co Ltd, Tailors |
S. Tetley |
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1921 |
Frank S. Smith |
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1928–1932 |
J. Molloy |
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1935 |
E. Gordon Hudson Also running Hastings |
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1945–1952 |
S. H. Barnett Ltd Barnett-Hutton |
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1954–1956 |
Salisbury’s |
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1958–1962 |
Bewlay |
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1964–1966 |
No listing |
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1968–1976 |
Finlays Ltd |
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1961–1976 |
Salisbury’s Leather Goods |
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By 2007– |
Orange Mobile Phones |
Snappy Snaps (from2000) |
Timpson |
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