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Hopwoods Hardware established this frontage for their business in Broadway in 1962, when they extended through from Main Street. This building was demolished for the Downtown Mall, c 1989. G H Bennetts, established 1891, constructed this building c1917-1918. The shop front was renovated in 1965. Bennett was instrumental in changing the name of Broad Street into Broadway, which became official in 1926.

Identification

Object type
Image
Digitisation ID
2008P_Z5184_BUI_0970
Title
Hopwoods Mitre 10 and Bennett's bookshop, Broadway
Held In
IMCA Digital Archive
Archive
Date
1988

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Creation

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Place
Broadway Avenue, Palmerston North

Object rights

License
By Attribution Alone

Taxonomy

Tags
1980s,
bennetts,
broadway avenue,
buildings,
colour,
hopwood’s mitre ten shop,
palmerston north,
Community Tags
car,

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