Life is Full of Ups & Downs - Part 8

ON REPAIRS - GRACE BUILDING (continued).

Returning to the subject of Grace Building and memories of working there.

WG Watson's and Three-phase conduit.
Arnold's had an account at the trade-supply business of WG Watson, who had shop-fronts in Clarence and Kent Streets. The premises ran through from one street to the other.
From Grace Blg. it was just a two-block walk up the road to the Clarence Street frontage.

The Clarence St. facade of the WG Watson building, which ran through to Kent St.

(Incidentally, in a funny little twist of history, the building which housed WG Watson was the former "Grace House", a warehouse and repository for the Grace family business (Grace Brothers)....the same family which built Grace Building.)

I think my memory is working (and no doubt if I've got this wrong then Dave Rutter will correct me!) in that one day someone was asked to go to WG Watson's with a list of stuff that was needed.
So he hands it over the counter to the sales bloke, who runs his eyes down it and then starts bringing the bit's and pieces to the counter......boxes of connectors, conduit saddles, that sort of thing.

He finally turns to the Arnold's apprentice and without batting an eye said something to the effect of "Tell your boss that we won't have any three-phase conduit in until Monday".