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Watchorns Ltd, located at 162-163 The Square, was founded in 1923 as Watchorn and McNaught, but was soon taken over and operated solely by Mr G Watchorn. The china is the 'Harvest Poppy' crockery design made in England.

Identification

Object type
Image
Relation
Public Photograph Collection Bc 66
Date
1920s
Digitisation ID
2009N_Bc66_BUI_2360
Held In
Coolstore

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Creation

Created By
Place
The Square, Palmerston North

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Taxonomy

Tags
buildings,
business,
crockery,
photographs,
plates,
retail,
shop,
store,
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