Memory Lane - Dashing Englishman behind Santa's Cave

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Journalist Tina White's weekly "Memory Lane" article in the Manawatū Standard. The life of Elworthy Thomas Doddrell (1868-1950). Employed by Collinson and Cunninghame in 1910, he suggested to the store owners that they install a Christmas grotto, like the grotto he had experienced in England. From this suggestion, Santa's Cave was developed and opened in the department store after World war 1.

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