Recently I wrote about the former Warragul branch of the Commercial Banking Company of Sydney (CBC) at 5 Smith Street and while scouring the internet for information on the building I came across the CBC Officers Club Inc website that included a letter from Malcolm Dickson with the following paragraph.
My father rented a shop at 5 Smith Street from 1930 to June 1939 when we had to vacate the shop for the CBC Bank.
We moved to 30 Smith Street where the business is still operated by my son and two Grandsons.
And that, I'm afraid, is a long-winded way of getting to Dicksons Mensland at 30 Smith Street, Warragul.
Either this building was more elegantly designed in the first place, or it has been beautifully renovated recently. In either case Dicksons Mensland is very refined Deco.
ReplyDeleteIt is certainly well maintained and I hope it was built in 1939 when Dickens moved there. I'll pop in one day and see if they know.
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