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Plumber’s shop

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Plumber’s shop

A small boy peeps into the window of plumber James Goodwin’s shop in Upper Hutt around 1912. The window display includes lengths of guttering and a bath, and leaning against the side of the shop is a water tank.

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Carl Walrond, Building trades – Plumbers and drainlayers, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/24698/plumbers-shop (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Carl Walrond, published 26 February 2010.