Jones in Kelly's 1914 Directory of Cinderford (General)

by Jefff , West London, Middlesex, Saturday, February 04, 2012, 01:46 (4672 days ago) @ Jefff

It appears the Jones' were very eminent in Cinderford High Street by 1914, particularly within the refreshment business. Almost reads like something out of gangland Chicago !. Of course they may not have all been related...

From http://www.historicaldirectories.org/hd/d.asp
If you search "Jones Edwin" there are 21 hits, the second is our man on page 120.

Some of the Jones listed are:

Cinderford, Post Offices:
EDWIN JONES, sub postmaster, LOWER High Street [#].

Cinderford Commercial:
Albert Jn Jones, Fleece Hotel, High Street.
EDWIN JONES, grocer & post office, High Street.
Frederick Edward Jones, photographer, Belle Vue Rd. [so just above the High Street].
George Jones, Lion Inn, High Street.
Mrs Georgina P. Jones, dressmaker, High Street
William Thomas Jones, fancy bazaar, High Street.

William Jones, Royal Oak P.H., Littledean Hill.
Mrs Sarah E. Jones, shopkeeper, Littledean Hill.

Miss Alice Cole, Royal Union Inn, High Street [see earlier post]

Nearby Ruspidge:
Leonard Jones, White Hart Inn, Ruspidge.

The Co-operative Society is listed as having two offices, one in Cinderford (High Street) and one in Ruspidge.

And to think my father Wm Jones wasn't a drinker to speak of and the first pub he took me too was my nan's in Longhope, how times change ! ;-)

# It's interesting the above sub Post Office is clearly written as LOWER High Street (hence different from THE main Post Office which is noted but doesn't have an address quoted, presumably not felt needed), so this sub Office was presumably not the same premises as Edwin's grocer shop in the "High St" ?.
I think I recall from 70s childhood (cashing birthday Post Orders) there was a sub Post Office at the lower High Street (near Haines' bikeshop ?). This was in addition to the main one in Woodside Street (don't know when that opened but surely well before 1914?).