How Bunnings Took Over Australia

[ford71V8]

Originally Posted by Dr Terry

Shows what happens if I don't read the whole thread eh ?Thing was, that the current poster made it sound as though Bunnings began life as McEwans.Dr Terry

My comment was in response to the last few posts, not directed at you Dr T

I found the vid interesting - I had no idea the legacy had started so far back.

[John 13]

Originally Posted by ford71V8

Um, the history of Bunnings is in the video that DFB put up in Post #001 of this thread.

Unfortunately I am insufficiently computer literate to in this case post a photograph of the actual building. Below is the information on the plaque attached to the building.
"Dating from 1888 this building made from local stone is one of many built in Roebourne by two brothers recently arrived from England, Robert and Arthur Bunning; the founders of the successful firm Bunning Brothers, which continues to trade today as Bunnings Warehouse.
The building was first occupied by another couple of entrepreneurs from England, Messrs Harry Watson and George Tee, who already operated a store in Cossack. The building was one large room divided into two separate departments. One these departments sold general merchandise and the other drapery and soft goods.
The Watson and Tee store operated for a decade before the partnership dissolved. HJ Watson & Co was later formed by Mr Watson and William Alexander Porter. Watson & Co operated from a number of sites in Roebourne.
The building has historic significance for the various uses it has served for the Roebourne community including as a general store, Masonic Hall, Baptist Church and now as a public library."

Roebourne is between Karratha and Wickham on the Pilbara coast. Cossack was the port for the region and is a now historic town site.
Incidentally early in the expansion of the Bunnings business as we know it today, the company built and operated a big green shed in the booming Pilbara town of Karratha. However within a few years the business failed and they left town. Today the pre-existing local hardware business' Mitre 10, Home Hardware and Atom Supply continue to serve the region.

[Interceptor]

Had to go to the rescue of a senior citizen this morning who had a leaking flexi hose under her kitchen sink.

Local mitre 10 did *not* have one single solitary flexi hose in the entire place....

Much as I'd love to support the locals, thats bloody frustrating!

Especially when they didnt have any of the correct sized blanking caps to cap the pipe, and finding a cistern valve I could use instead had me checking both the plumbing section, and the bathroom section (halfway across the store!) before I found what I needed!