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PENCIL - AT FERGUSON ADVERT

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1932 - 1943

Overview

Cylindrical pencil having white outer coating with black text printed along pencil. [A. T FERGUSON / APPRECIATES YOUR TRADE / PHONE 39]

Historical information

Mr Alexander T. 'Fergie' Ferguson was operating a butcher's store on the corner of Albany road and Gilwell avenue in the 1930s. Some time in the early 1940s he sold the business to Mr J. McLeod and Mr Alf Martin and got a job with the Metro Bus Company. On 23 November 1944 the South Western Advertiser reported that Mr McLeod was in hospital so Mr Ferguson had taken leave from the Metro Bus Company to help Mr Martin out in the store.
By 1959 the butcher business was known as Crane's Family Friendly Butchers. In the 1950s and 1960s the store was located next to the Kelmscott Newsagency and Delicatessen.
Before moving to Kelmscott in 1931 Mr Ferguson and his family lived in Beverly where he ran another butcher store and was a member of the Beverly Fire Brigade. In 1924 he married Daphne Mitchell in Beverly. He sold the Beverly business in 1929
Later in life Alexander and Daphne moved to Inglewood where Alexander passed away age 78 in 1977, Daphne died a few years earlier in 1973.

Details

Registration number

cwa-org-33-AK1999.5

Material

Carbon

Wood

Width

162 mm

Height or length

7 mm

Depth

7 mm

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Statement of significance

This object is part of a collection that represents the commercial history of the City of Armadale. It represents the many different businesses that have operated in the local area and how those businesses have evolved over time. Businesses play an important role within a community, they provide wanted and needed goods and services, employment, income and opportunities to the local community. They can also operate as important social connectors, places where people gathered and engaged with other members of the community.

Comparative significance criteria

Interpretive capacity

Rare or representative

Well provenanced

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