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Boon's Bakery, 1930s

Boon's Bakery, 1930s

Bakers check loaves of bread exiting an automated electric oven onto a conveyor belt at Boon's Bakery in Christchurch in the 1930s. Electric ovens produced a uniform product in enormous numbers, spelling the end of many small town bakers, with their wood-fired ovens and hand-made loaves.

Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi

Canterbury Museum, Canterbury Historical Association Collection

Reference: 2000.198.1404

by W. McKaskell

Permission of Canterbury Museum, Rolleston Avenue, Christchurch, New Zealand must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

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Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

Carl Walrond, Food shops – Bakers, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/25490/boons-bakery-1930s (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Carl Walrond, i tāngia i te 6 April 2010, updated 1 September 2016.

Comments

margaret lardelli
07 June 2013
As the grandchild of Lionel Boon I and my brother and sister played in the bakery in the 1950/60s.Many good times was had playing hide and seek.