Wem High Street - No 37

Year Owner/Occupier Property Useage 1880 Henry Ponting Cox Solicitor 1890 Henry P Cox Solicitor 1901 Isaac Huxley (aged 46) Cycle Agent & coal dealer 1930 I Huxley & Co Cycle Agent & coal merchants 1940 I Huxley & Co Cycle Agent & coal merchants 1953 Isaac Huxley Cycle Agent 1988 P. Collins Fruit & Vegetables, Frozen Foods 1995 Kevin Kynaston - 2006 Phil and Claire Glover Newsagent 2012 Wrights Newsagent 2020

Property built around 1800 of brick with a plain tile roof. Shop front added in 19th Century. After use as a solicitor's office through the 19th century, this became the High Street base of Isaac Huxley. Apart from being a cycle dealer, Huxleys were also coal and salt merchants and had a depot in the station yard.They were also hardware dealers and agents for 'HMV' and 'Columbia' gramophones. The Trentham Tennis Club (of whom A Huxley was the Hon Secretary) was also run from the shop. More information on the Huxley family is available on the WW1 page, as Silas Edward Huxley was killed in that war. In the early 21st century, it became a newsagent. This continued when Glovers took over the then T.O. Williams delicatessen. A former paperboy for them, Joel Wright, took it over in January 2012 becoming probably the youngest newspaper shop owner in Britain. The papershop closed around 2020, bringing to the end the last newspaper specialist in Wem