A receipt and advertisement for James Jack and Sons, Plumbers, 1957. The business began in 1880 in the High Street, and moved to Union Street in 1890. In the early 1900s, a showroom was opened in premises adjacent to Harp Cottage, Tay Street (in 2020 Little Beehive Nursery), while the workshop remained in Union Street.
Two toilet flush pull chains from local plumbers, Betsworth and Barlow who operated between 1894-1970s and James Jack and Sons, 1880-1980.
Advertisement for James Jack and Sons plumbers. They were in business in Newport from the 1880s. They had a show-room on Tay Street, and work-shop on Union Street.
Advertisement for Betsworth and Barlow plumbers. They operated from premises on the north side of the High Street. The business started in 1894 and continued under three generations of Barlows until it closed in the 1970s.
Receipt from James Jack plumber dated 1957. James Jack's business operated from 1880s, first on the High Street, then with a work-shop on Union Street and a showroom on Tay Street.
James Jack and Sons plumbing business operated in the village from 1880 until the 1950s. Thereafter the name continued but the business was run from the original James Jack workshop on Union Street by George Smith whose grandson still operates a plumbing business in the village today (2022). See our Newport Plumbers page. This particular ...