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No 10 Market Place, 2005
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Number 10 Market Place was the home of William Cowper's barber, William Wilson. He was still living there in the early nineteenth century but had died by the time of the third levy in 1833. His widow Sarah was recorded as paying the rates. In two earlier census and a directory she was listed as 'Independent', 'Gentry' and 'Fundholder' so presumably had private means. She apparently supplemented her income by letting off part of her house to another hairdresser, Thomas Kitchener and his wife Elizabeth. Their census details come after Sarah's and before the Hollingsheads, in the property next door.
In 1911 George Hollingshead lived in retirement at Number 10 and it was probably the Hollingsheads who built the shop frontage as they conducted their watchmaking business from here in later years. In 1936, Edward and Kate Hollingshead were recorded as living there.
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