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.

If you know something about any of these business please add a comment. You can do this without having to sign up for anything and can be anonomous if you prefer.



Tuesday, August 3, 2010

Harris Shoes Ltd

This is 315 George St, Dunedin

The original business was operating within recent memory and with the company officially going into liquidation in July 2005 probably closed around that date. I don't know the start date but know that it operated for at least 50 years prior to closing.

As we know Harris was a shoe store which is marginally ironic as two doors south is a new shoe store which is part of a national chain. An example of how retailing has changed in recent years away from local to national.

Unfortunately that is all I can tell you about Mr (or Mrs) Harris and their shoe store.
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