Farmers Rooftop Playground Christchurch

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Farmers rooftop playground christchurch.

The heritage of james hay james hay was the father of city councillor and later mayor sir hamish hay. On this rooftop was a small scale amusement park with miniature train and merry go round and holiday activites rubbish bins made of fibreglass in the shape of animals. I was happy to read that you enjoyed the size of your room and found it to be clean with good facilities. The store s rooftop playground included trick mirrors slides a miniature train a merry go round and holiday.

Many department stores held christmas events aimed at children but farmers was the first in new zealand to provide them with an all year round attraction. The playground is no longer there however the café area is and we now call this the grand tea room which. Hay s department store was a well known shop in christchurch from 1929 to 1987. Acquired most of its stores.

Farmer s was the first store in new zealand to provide a rooftop play space for its customers. The loved rooftop playground of farmers department store auckland central. Dear yendor64 thank you for your positive review and strong rating of heritage auckland after your stay earlier this month. Hay s ltd later became haywrights and then farmers in 1987 and hay s roof as such closed though the roof remained open as a playground for children until the demolition of the old building ten years later.

Thanks to grant ford for the pic. Jan 6 2017 clearly i need to stop this and get back to science but just one more the rooftop playground of the auckland new zealand farmers trading company store in 1929. Hay s roof closed in 1987 though the roof remained open as a playground for children until the demolition of the building. The old farmers building brings back a lot of memories.