Pigot & Co's Directory (North
Wales) 1835
Flannel, and straw hats
Most of the entries for Machynlleth in Pigot & Co's Trade Directory are what one would expect in a nineteenth century rural town. There are craftsmen providing all that was deemed necessary for rural and domestic life. Some of the entries, however, reflect the special nature of this corner of Montgomeryshire.
Pigot & Co's
Directory
(North Wales)
1835
Powys
County Archives
Although the flourishing Montgomeryshire flannel industry
was centred to the east in the Severn valley around Llanidloes,
Newtown and Welshpool, where transport links to wider markets
were better, Machynlleth still had a share in the trade.
Similarly, the entries for lead merchants reflects the number
of lead mines in this mountainous region, where miners extracted
this valuable commodity in difficult and dangerous conditions.
Lead was still vital to the production of pewter which was still
in common use in the early nineteenth century.
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