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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Thursday, August 5, 2010

Haywards North End Furnishing Co Ltd

This is 930 George Street
The Cyclopedia of New Zealand published in 1905 talks about two brothers Hayward who were in the furnishing trade http://www.nzetc.org/tm/scholarly/tei-Cyc04Cycl-t1-body1-d2-d33.html but it records their premises as 103 George Street.
I think it unlikely that these two are not related so either they moved or they set up a second branch / factory. Given that 103 is practically the corner of Moray Place and very central for a shop and even today this premises is somewhat out of the retail part of town my money is on this being the factory and the shop was more downtown.

While you can see it is a hunting fishing shop now it was till only a few years ago still a furniture shop, although not Haywards but more recently Hunters.
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  1. BrickyJanuary 18, 2020 at 9:54 PM

    In the 1950s, Hayward's North End Furniture Company (in this building) was operated by Charles (Charlie) Hayward, who was a Dunedin City Councillor.

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