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Cloth Hall
Cliciwch yma am y fersiwn
Cymraeg
Cloth Hall was a flourishing rural shop at Pentraeth
owned by Benjamin
Thomas. The heading describes him as a grocer, tea merchant, ironmonger, flour and corn
merchant, a hatter, clothier, woollen cloth and cloth merchant, shoe seller and operator
for every kind of equipment. This represented a remarkable range of produce for the daily
needs of the community. Some of the stock could be seen displayed on the rough pavement
outside the shop. The picture is a copy of a postcard published in 1906 by Benjamin Thomas
himself as an advert to his shop and it was probably one of the ones displayed in his
window.
This is a picture of the village showing the post office in the background, on a card by
Wright and Company in 1905. Cloth Hall can be seen on the left and the White Horse public
house where George Borrow stayed in 1854. When the post office was opened in 1845 the post
was taken there from Menai Bridge by a rider on horseback but by 1900 when
Catherine Elias took over as postmistress from Thomas Rogers, the post was transported
with a cart. Five rural postmen worked from Pentraeth walking to Ty Fry, Tynymynydd,
Cochymeiri and Red Wharf Bay.
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