Commercial premises Springwood

Delaney Bros Butchers

Hurley's who purchased Delaney's premises & house
This photograph is taken at the rear of the premises & shows
 the residence

William Rayner's General Store
left & Nosworthy & Bates is believed to be the shop on the right 

General Store

H.J. Baldwin – 1930s

Viv Colless - c1905 4 weatherboard shops located opposite the Post Office.  Burnt to ground in 1913 & rebuilt 1914.

Tom Ellis - building owned by Ted Honeysett.  Business later purchased by Eric Young

Archie Ferguson - early1900s

Fripps

W. Hall - located in one of Colless's shops

William Honeysett – c1893 store near Royal Hotel

George Mitchelmore – store purchased by H.J. Baldwin

Nosworthy & Bates – Thomas Nosworthy and William Bates shop located adjacent to present-day            School of Arts Town Square

William Rayner – late 1800s

Eric Young - c1930/40s business purchased from Tom Ellis

Butcher Shops

Edward Allen – c1896

Ashe (Horsley bought business)

Edward Ashcroft – took over Dilworth’s business

Ray Bennett – c1930s

John Blackmore – c1910

Mr. Brown – bought Stratton’s business

Eric Bunyan - 1932

Delaney Bros. – Hurley purchased business

Thomas Dilworth – building located on site of present-day Priceline chemist, owned by David Sharpe

Charles Goodwin – 1890s (was an employee of William Rayner)

J. Harris – c1900s

Horsley – 1905 (bought business owned by Mr Ashe)

William Hurley – purchased ‘Kirkstall’ and butchers business operated by Delaney Bros.

James Morrison – c1890s

J.B. Rogers – last butchers to operate from David Sharpe’s building

David Sharpe – c1900s (subsequently Dilworth, Ashworths & Rogers)

James Stratton – c1891 opposite station?  Bought by Mr. Brown

Hairdressers

James Moyes Adamson

W. Brown - from one of Colless's shops c1913

Ham & Beef Shop (now delicatessen)

William John Werner - c1913

Pharmacy

Lock Anderson - c1920s

Refreshment Rooms

Mr Kilduff

* This information is not definitive

More on World War Two - Reginald James Adamson

Biographical information regarding the men & women who served in World War Two will be added as it comes to hand.

Reginald James Adamson: Service Number NX111254.  Reginald was born in Springwood and was the son of James Moyes & Ivy Adamson.  His siblings were Ron, Marjorie (Mrs. W. Moxham, Rhodes) and Jean (Mrs. W. Davenport Faulconbridge).  His father was the local barber while his mother Ivy was the daughter of William Werner who owned the local ham and beef shop in Springwood.  

The Nepean Times newspaper reported in January 1943 the marriage of Corporal Reg Adamson to Gwendoline, daughter of Mr & Mrs Grace of South Hurstville at St George's Church of England Hurstville.

Ref:
Springwood Historians, The Making Of A Mountain Community; A Biographical Dictionary of 
 the Springwood District, Springwood Historians, 2002, p. 2.
Ann Gugler, 'Charles Price,' Hidden Canberra, updated Feb. 2010,
 http://www.hiddencanberra.webs.com/, accessed 12.2.2011.
Nepean Times, 21.1.1943.