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Beard Watson & Co Ltd, George Street 1927

By
Arthur Ernest Foster
From the collections of the
State Library of New South Wales
[a6464002 / ON 30/Box 6, 18]
(Mitchell Library)

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Foster, Arthur Ernest

Arthur Ernest Foster was a commercial photographer at 289 Victoria Road, Gladesville between 1916 and 1947. He married Eileen Emily Hosie (d. 4 October 1977) in 1936. Arthur Foster died, aged 79, in 1958. 

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Beard Watson Limited

Once Sydney's most exclusive furnishing store, with custom-designed furniture and fabrics, Beard Watson Limited dominated the high end of Sydney furniture retailing from the end of the nineteenth century until the 1960s.

Commercial building

Retail

Beard Watson Limited

Furniture manufacturer and retailer with a large store in George Street for much of the twentieth century.

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