Ashenden & Gooddy 1910 – 1911 Gaynor & Langley 1911 – 1913 Gaynor & Co 1913 – 1926 Langley W H S 1913 – 1927 EDWARD ASHENDEN was born in Dartford, Kent, England in 1873. At 10 years of age, he arrived in S. Australia with his family. In 1896 at the age of 23 years he moved across…
AW Sales “Rooster” trademark, Perth and Fremantle marble bottle is most sort after, because of the pictorial aspect of this bottle. It is a Dobson type patent and has the word “Pinnacle” on the reverse of the bottle. It comes in large and small sizes. No ginger beers were produced by the company. Alfred William Sales was born in…
ALFRED JOHN VINER was born in Reading, Berkshire, England in 1857. He was the eldest child of John Viner, carpenter/joiner and his wife Elizabeth nee Wicks. On the Census of 1881 Alfred was 23 years old and lived in Blakes Lodge at Reading and was a carpenter/joiner, like his father. By 1887 he had arrived in Australia and in…
This business was situated at 147 Colin St, West Perth between Wellington St & Prowse St. Alfred Gillham, his brother in law, William Henry Hartley & Archibald Sparks formed a company with capitol of 3.000 pound & divided into 1pound shares in July 1937. This aerated water factory was formerly the company of Edward Reeder Atkinson 1933-37. Gillham was…
ALFRED ERNEST GUMMOW was born in London in 1860. He arrived in Sydney aboard the “Darling Downs” in October 1880. He was a second cabin steward on board the steamer and was employed until 13 April 1881. He eventually made his way to Queensland and was employed here in 1886. In January 1889 Messrs Butcher McIntosh, Riggal, Mrs Carboyd…
Albert Hobbs was born in 1884 to Henry Thomas Hobbs and his wife Mary in the Eastern States. He was the 8th child of 10 children & married Margaret Ann Jones at Southern Cross, W.A. in 1905. I believe he arrived in W.A. about 1898, lured here by the mining boom in the Goldfields. At the time of his…
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