So strictly speaking it doesn't have the name of the company cast in stone but I personally think the big bell at the top of the building counts and handily because I am writing the entry I can get my own way.
So this is still a working tea factory or potentially packing plant might be a more appropriate term as I understand it the tea enters the top of the building and works its way down the floors through the process to emerge as package tea at the bottom.
The date at the top of the building is 1924 which is when I assume it was constructed as Bell Tea was operating from 1898 founded by Norman Harper Bell yet another merchant who came to Dunedin from Melbourne a few years earlier.
The history of the Bell Tea Company is to be found on their web site here http://www.belltea.co.nz/ Good to see another building built for a company still going strong which isn't a pub, the current best way to keep a cast in stone building going for its original purpose.
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