Angleterre, Butterwalk

Angleterre, Butterwalk

Vintage albumen print. Butterwalk This photograph shows local people in the Butterwalk in the 1880s.



The premises of William Ellis, a tailor and hatter, are now the home of Dartmouth Museum. You can see why hatters were important in those days! The room behind William Ellis's sign is The King's Room where Charles II held court while stormbound.



The building to the right was the Assembly Rooms, no longer there. At the extreme left of the picture is William Henley's second shop. There are loads of details about that in The Henley Trail.



That sign, "Tailor, Hatter &c" confused us for a while, but our web team dredged their memories. "&c" means "et cetera". So Mr Ellis did some et cetera as well as tailoring and hatting. Can you say "hatting"?



The Butterwalk was built between 1635 and 1640, its carved wooden fascia supported by huge granite pillars. 'Butterwalks' were built in market towns to provide shelter for stalls selling dairy produce.



Dartmouth's Butterwalk was hit by a bomb during the second world war, and was restored after the efforts of many, spearheaded by Percy Russell. There's a plaque outside the museum entrance that has the details. The museum moved in in 1954, opening on 14 April.



Look at the drian pipes in the picture. Were they later additons? Did the water poor off the roof valleys in a great cascade into Duke Street at one point?



We think we can see three errand boys in the picture. One's busy propping up one of the pillars. It's all rather relaxed and

Tirage albuminé

20x25

Circa 1880

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