Cast In Stone: J Hendry and Son Ltd

Introduction

Imagine a time when life was so certain that when you built a building for your business you were confident enough in the future that you put the name of the business into the very fabric of the building.

This is not a time of mergers and takeovers of globalisation and restructure, this is when life was more local and certain.

There are a number of such buildings around and so this blog is an attempt to record some of them and more importantly a bit of the history of the business which by and large are no longer with us.

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Monday, May 16, 2011

J Hendry and Son Ltd

This is 80 George Street, Dunedin

So other than what is on the sign I haven't been able to find anything about this company.
The full sign tells us they were "Makers of Good Clothes for Over Half a Century"
And the only other trace seems to be the odd newspaper advert such as the below from an 1894 Tablet.