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.



Monday, August 2, 2010

A Thompson & Son Ltd



This is 453 Princes Street The current occupants are pretty obvious but as to A Thompson and Sons who knows.

There is an entry for an Alex Thompson & Sons Ltd in the Hocken Library http://www.library.otago.ac.nz/pdf/hoc_fr_bulletins/Bull_37_Fish.pdf
where they are refered to as sail makers and ships chandlers which could fit.

Then there is this reference
http://www.nzmuseums.co.nz/account/3035/object/1047 for a tailing iron manufactured by Alex Thompson & Son (singular) which could be them, it is an Otago reference but would that fit with a retail store?

If you know more add a comment and let me know.
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