Tag: Victorian innovation

• Sir Pryce Pryce-Jones (1834–1920)

  

  The Welsh Entrepreneur Who Engineered Distance from Newtown In the standard story of modern retail, innovation belongs to cities. Manchester industrialises production, London refines display, Liverpool masters distribution. Yet one of the most consequential changes in consumer life began not in a metropolis, but in Newtown, Montgomeryshire. From this small mid-Wales market town, Sir Pryce…

  Antony David Davies

  24/02/2026

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