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Nos 16 &17 Market Place, 2005
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Number 17 Market Place, to the right of the photograph, was a bakery run by the Raban family for about one hundred years. William Raban was the owner recorded in the Levies of 1801 and 1810/11 but William Whitmee lived there for a ten year period from 1833. William Whitmee's wife, Elizabeth, ran a millinery business. The Whitmee's were probably tenants, because in 1844 Sarah Raban was listed as a baker at the same address. Sarah was followed by John Raban and in 1887 George William Raban was advertising his bakery and confectionery business. Twelve years later, R W Raban was the baker up to the First World War.
The premises were in the process of being rebuilt in 1911, as shown in a photograph of the Market Place at the time of King George V's Coronation. By 1924 Lewis Rogers was the baker, he went next door to Number 16 in 1931 and Mrs Elizabeth Crouch has transferred her sweet shop here from Number 16 by 1939.
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