Pailton. Rugby Road
Post office and cottages in Rugby Road, Pailton. 1900s
IMAGE LOCATION: (Warwickshire County Record Office)
Reference: PH, 352/105/51, img: 6459
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That’s my grandad, Charles Gupwell Cox (1893-1972) standing outside the Post Office with little sister Mary behind. My 2x great grandparents, William and Mary Ann Gupwell built the double fronted shop in the early 1840s and ran it as a cordwainers for many years. William died in 1868 but Mary Ann carried on the business until her death in 1880. Her daughter Ellen Gupwell (1849-1917) then ran the premises as a drapers and haberdashers with her sister Fanny. She also became post mistress and ran the phone exchange. Their telephone number was Pailton 1. Fanny married Charles Cox in 1887 and he ran his watch and clockmaking business out back. He even had Pailton’s first petrol station there for a while
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