Archifdy Ceredigion Archives

Business Records - John Edwards, Decorators

ACC. 1068

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Cyflwynwyd i Archifdy Ceredigion gan Amgueddfa Ceredigion.

Aberystwyth. 12 lonawr 1998

Deposited in Ceredigion Archives by Ceredigion Museum,

Aberystwyth. 12 January 1998

Records of John Edwards & Son, Painters, paperhangers, grainers

and general decorators of "Holborn", Queen's Road, Aberystwyth.

1. Account book : payments for house decorating in Aberystwyth area,

with detailed breakdown of expenditure.

Dec. 1902 - October 1913

2. Account book : payments for house decorating in Aberystwyth area,

with detailed breakdown of expenditure.

Feb. 1913 - July 1924

3. Account book : payments for house decorating in Aberystwyth area,

with detailed breakdown of expenditure.

June 1924 - June 1927

4. Account book : payments for house decorating in Aberystwyth area,

with detailed breakdown of expenditure.

Feb. 1936 - Dec. 1945

5. Account book : payment for house decorating in Aberystwyth area,

with detailed breakdown of expenditure.

Dec. 1945 - Sept. 1953

6. Exercise book :

Estimates, details of work to be undertaken, and copy letter book

[in exercise book entitled "Nellie Edwards "Gwynedd", form VIA, Cookery"]

March 1931 - July 1933

7. Exercise book :

Estimates, details of work undertaken and copy letter book

July 1933 - October 1936

8. Detailed estimates for house decoration in Aberystwyth area.

Sept. 1936 - June 1941


9. Exercise book : instructions for work to be undertaken

July 1941 - July 1944

10. Exercise book : instructions for work to be undertaken

[ in the Chemistry exercise book of Dorothy M. Usher of Duchess

School, Alnwick, Northumberland !]

April 1944 - Feb. 1946


11. Exercise book : instructions for work to be undertaken

Feb. 1946 - April 1950

12. Exercise book : instructions for work to be undertaken

[also "copy of income taxes etc." 1933 - 1938]

April 1950 - June 1956

13. Exercise book : instructions for work to be undertaken

July 1956 - late 1957


14. Exercise book : instructions for work to be undertaken

Dec. 1957 - Dec. 1963

15. Exercise book : instructions for work to be undertaken

April 1964 - July 1976


16. Exercise book : copy letter book 1954 - 1957

17. Account book containing details of money spent on materials for

specific jobs.

n.d. c. 1955 - 1960

18. Account book [originally of D. Jones & sons, family butchers of The

Central Meat Stores, 3 North Parade and North Gate Street, Aberystwyth]

containing accounts of materials purchased for specific painting jobs and

details of leave taken.

n.d. c. 1960