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After many years as a grocer's shop on the corner of Mill Street (formerly known as Church Street) Wem Insurance Company occupied the corner site with frontage on Mill Street until they departed in about 2007. This premises was empty in 2011.
Tudors were a small bakery and grocery shop which delivered round the district. this was especially valuable to isolated farmers during the 1960s Foot and Mouth epidemic, when the groceries could be left at the farm gate. Tudors also kept 7 cows in the field behind the shop. In the 1950s, these were walked to the diary in New Street twice a day for milking.
Memories
I came to Wem in 1975 and it was an insurance firm by then. Anyhow, older people will still refer to it as "Tudors corner". John Tudor lived in Noble street...if you go up Market street into Noble Street you are confronted by a large, double fronted, white house next door to the Conservative club.
Below: Photo showing Tudor's Corner, with Kynastons Ironmongers beyond. Opposite is Bowens.
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