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- "500 Victorians", Centenary edition:
Daniel Thomas Bedggood, boot manufacturer, born at Victoria, 22nd October 1869. Educated at Kew High School.
Mr Daniel Bedggood, who arrived from England in 1854, opened a boot manufacturing business in Bridge Road, Richmond. With the growth of thebusinesshis three sons, Thomas, Edward and John, were taken into partnership. In 1873 Edward built a factory in Judd Street, and in 1883 the firmmoved toWaltham Place and has grown yearly from that time. The present head of the firm is Mr D. T. Bedggood. Recreations: shooting and fishing.Hobby:gardening, glass house begonia growing. Home address: "Holmbush", Burke Road, East Kew.
This issue of the Australian Storekeepers' Journal has an interview with Mr W. F. Greenwood, the managing partner, where he talks about Bedggood&Co., the senior partner then being Daniel Thomas Bedggood. The article finishes in this way - "they are the only people who can supply everygradepossibly required, either by country storekeeper or city shopkeeper, in modern boots and shoes."
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