Miss Wartski, one enterprise too many for the old family firm?...
Eastern European immigration in the 1800s...
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“They (Jewish immigrants) travelled out from places like Liverpool into the Welsh countryside as peddlers.
“But eventually they set up communities first in Bangor, then in Llandudno, Colwyn Bay, Rhyl and Wrexham.”
Those peddlers moved on to renting small shops, and then owning large stores like Pollecoff's of Pwllheli and Wartski’s of Bangor and Llandudno, which boasted of being 'By Royal Appointment’.
According to the story, Isidore Wartski become the mayor of Bangor, and is believed have been the first Jewish mayor in Wales. The Wartski store even had a branch in London's Bond Street.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wartski
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