Farmers Rooftop Playground Christchurch

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Hays was one of the iconic christchurch department stores it stood in gloucester street where farmers has stood for years. Farmer s was the first store in new zealand to provide a rooftop play space for its customers. The store s rooftop playground included trick mirrors slides a miniature train a merry go round and holiday. I was happy to read that you enjoyed the size of your room and found it to be clean with good facilities.

Jun 24 2012 children enjoy themselves in the rooftop playground at auckland s farmers trading company store in 1929. Dear yendor64 thank you for your positive review and strong rating of heritage auckland after your stay earlier this month. 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. Hay s department store was a well known shop in christchurch from 1929 to 1987.

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. 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. The loved rooftop playground of farmers department store auckland central. Thanks to grant ford for the pic.

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. By the late 1970 s farmers trading co. The heritage of james hay james hay was the father of city councillor and later mayor sir hamish hay.