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BIRKENHEAD LOCAL HISTORY
The first truck for Verran and Sons, Carriers, Birkenhead.
The first truck, a Dennis, for the carriers, Charles Verran and Sons, of Birkenhead. Charles Verran senior is seated on the truck’s step and son Charles is sitting in the truck.
‘Charles Polmear Verran… bought a postmastership, store and carrying business from W.McKenzie at Birkenhead (his role as postmaster started from 10 July 1905), and later bought 14 acres at Bagot’s Hill (later Verran’s Corner). ….He headed the carrying firm of Charles Verran and Sons with premises in Birkenhead South and Birkdale, and a pick up depot in Customs Street West, near the old markets’. page 18 From ‘Cornwall to the Coromandel : the story of Charles and William Verran’ by Beryl and David Verran. Auckland [N.Z. : The Authors], 1994.
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Hinemoa Street, Birkenhead.
Looking south down the Main Road, Birkenhead, later called Hinemoa Street, showing W F Ross, general store (right) on the corner of Rugby Road (centre right), and further down the street (on the right) the Birkenhead Post Office , S W Cope, general store and (on the left) a poultry shop and a chemist shop with a horse and cart in the street. Description Heritage Images online.
The road veering left past chemist shop remains Hinemoa Street (to the wharf). Bridgeview Road continues straight ahead.(verso)
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