Dictionary of Sydney

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Beard Watson Limited

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

Milestone
Opened
1889
Incorporated
1901
Merged into
1959
Closed
1973
Name
Alternate
Beard Watson and Co
1889 - 1901
Position
1889
1889
Property
Occupied
1913 - 1973
Type

Beard Watson Limited

,
2011

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.