Wem High Street - No 54
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|  Butters Shop in the 1940s. Photo reproduced with the permission of Shropshire Archives: Ref:PH/W/8/4/11 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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 |  The invoice for Butters shows a raincoat sold in the early 1940s for £2-15-6d. In decimal money, this would be about £2.77p. After the 2nd World War, Butters would have suffered from the decline in t he sale of school uniforms etc. They never survived to see the Internet, which took away the livlihood of many similar small town businesses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Elegant three storey building with sash windows. Red brick with white painted brickwork round the first floor windows and stone decorations above them. For over 100 years, it was occupied by Butters the tailors. The 1851 Bagshaw's guide describes it as Butters of Market St (the name then given to that section of the High St) In 1893,his son, Samuel Butter was listed as a tailor and draper, with his wife and 3 children. He later had another son, Richard, who died on the Somme in World War 1. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||