Edwin Daniel Berry - Engineer and Missionary
Object type
Image
- Description
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This image is believed to depict, Berry family patriarch Edwin Daniel Berry, founder in 1907 of E. D. Berry General Engineer. The family business occupied space in Ferguson Street and Ashley Street until the 1980s when they were bought by the Mauri Brothers. Berry Engineering manufactured a wide variety of metal equipment for the dairy and brewing industries.
Edwin senior was a deeply religious man who kept a long association with the Gospel Hall in Main Street. In the mid-1930s, Edwin senior left the business in the hands of his sons and became a Christian Missionary in Fiji.
Identification
- Relation
- 2023-25
- Date
- 195X
- Digitisation id
- 2023G_2023-25_041843
- Format
- Glass negative
- Held in
- Coolstore
Related items
Creation
- Created By
- Berry Family
- Place
- 469 Main Street, Palmerston North
Object rights
- License
- By Attribution Alone
Taxonomy
- Community Tags