Mr Hughes.
I have found in my research a connection in my family to a market garden owned by the Bennet family in Caernarfon. The garden was called the "Sportsman" market garden and was on Waterloo port. Any information you have would be greatly recieved. I am a great fan of your website. May I also wish you belated birthday wishes.
Val John

Dear Mrs. John,

Yes, I do remember Mr. and Mrs. Bennet. The garden was right opposite the private housing estate, Llys Meirion, but their shop was at the top of High Street, near the Town Clock. In pre WWII days and well into the 1950's there were three Greengrocer shops very close to each other.

Bennet and Lodging Hall were directly opposite each other and Derlwyn Jones just around the corner in Palace Street.

Mr. Bennet was reasonably tall and slender and had wavy black hair and Mrs. Bennet, a very smart woman with ginger hair.

I suggest you visit "Caernarfon Traders" a website run by my friend and fellow historian, Keith Morris. All you have to do is insert these two words into Google and click on the site showing List of Trades and then click on Greegrocers. This should roughly give you an idea of the peiod they were in business.

Hope this helps,

Regards

T. Meirion Hughes

Mrs. John,

Having checked the "Caernarfon Traders" website, I find I gave you the incorrect information. Philip Benest is the name of the person running the business and it comes under "Florists" not "Greengrocers".

Sorry about that,

TMH