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No 32 Market Place, 2005
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Number 32 Market Place had been owned by Mr Joseph Palmer since 1757 and ran as an ironmongry business, though in 1841 he had a young manager, Lawrence Lothvis running the business for him. By the 1880's Thomas Cooper continued the same trade and then in 1890 two brothers from Colchester, JW & E Sowman took over the business. They put in a new shop front , later incorporating the premises next door and eventually they erected a new building upon the site. A tailor, William E Moss, then occupied the former ironmonger's premises from about 1907 for some years, but Sowmans eventually took back their original shop, as their business continued to expand.
Being business premises there are no records of persons living at Number 32 in the 1936 Register of Electors.
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