About us!
Hello!
My name's Benedict, and I'm the owner of 'The Little Welsh Dresser'. With alot of help from my family, and creative ideas from my wife Sarah, we opened at the end of September 2014.
My name's Benedict, and I'm the owner of 'The Little Welsh Dresser'. With alot of help from my family, and creative ideas from my wife Sarah, we opened at the end of September 2014.
The shop is in Llandeilo in Carmarthenshire and I'm the 4th generation of my family to run a shop here
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My great grandparents bought it around 1905 and ran a tobacconist, their children then carried this on (pictured below) and later turned it in to a health food shop / dry foods. My father helped run the business, and when he inherited the building he rented it out to a couple of different wine bars, and then as an Indian restaurant for a long time - when they left, it ended up being empty for just over a year.
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A photo of my grandparents outside the shop in the 1950's
A video showing TV clips from inside the shop in 1985 and 2016. The top right has my gran, Mair when the shop was selling organic produce and on the bottom left is myself when we featured on Heno around Christmas 2016.
Although Me and Sarah lived in Cardiff at the time, we got married in Llandeilo in late 2013, and this planted a desire in our minds to return to Llandeilo.
Having the shop empty for so long gave me the opportunity to realise a dream of coming back to Llandeilo and opening my own shop! Me and my wife had been using Chalk Paint™ for a few years, and felt it would fit in perfectly in Llandeilo. I'd also been running an online welsh gift shop for a few years, and felt that the two would combine nicely.
Having decided to leave my job, it suddenly became very real!
I felt that the building was a really important part of the shop, and set about restoring it to it's former glory, here's a photo of it during restoration....
I was also lucky that both the original shop counter, and a large display cabinet had been kept - these have also been restored and are once again used at the shop.
And that brings us to opening day! Here's a photo of me and my wife as we'd just opened the shop back in September 2014!
And that brings us to opening day! Here's a photo of me and my wife as we'd just opened the shop back in September 2014!
We're exceptionally proud stockists of Chalk Paint™ decorative paint by Annie Sloan and describe the shop as
A creatively inspiring boutique, full of Welsh gifts, cards, artwork, Melin Tregwynt, interior accessories and lots more!
Proud stockists of Chalk Paint™ decorative paint by Annie Sloan
Here's a short clip from Heno during the Llandeilo 'Festival of the Senses' which takes place on the third weekend in November every year
Heno, S4C (17/11/2017)
Tinopolis
CLICK HERE to view the full clip from the show about the 'Festival of the Senses'
Tinopolis
CLICK HERE to view the full clip from the show about the 'Festival of the Senses'
If you're in the area, please pop in and say hello!
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Opening hours:
Tuesday 10:30am to 4:30pm Wednesday 10:30am to 3:30pm Thursday 10:30am to 4:30pm Friday 10:30am to 4:30pm Saturday 10:30am to 4:30pm |
