About Hall Premier Store
Open
7am-7pm M-F
7am-4pm S-S
Offering:
- Full Postal Services
- Newsagency
- Beer, Wine & Spirits
- Groceries
- Good Coffee & Cakes
- Takeaway Food & Eat In
- Fine Foods locally sourced
- Giftware
- Dry Cleaning
- Ice
Clean, fast & friendly service
A store with History
The ‘general store’, together with the school (1911-2006), has been an enduring part of the community for some 120 years.
In 1889 the village had one residence and a store, and a population of two. The original store – smaller and next door to the present shop - was run by Eva, daughter of John Southwell, before passing to his brother, Benjamin (‘Ben”) Roffe Southwell. Arthur Flower bought the store in1899 but in 1901 it returned to Charles W Southwell who ran the store for the next thirty three years in partnership with Ebenezer Brown. They built a new, bigger store on the present site in 1912, which Ebenezer’s son, Ross Brown, took over in 1934.
The original Hall store has been described as follows:
“The store at Hall [built in 1888] consisted of a single room like a hall, with a hip roof extending to a skillion at the rear. The walls were lined with shelves, and counters were placed on three sides. The skillions contained the bags of bran, pollard, etc, and boxes of unopened goods. At the rear of the main building were stables made of slabs and sheds for vehicles, which included a cart, a sulky and a buggy. A waggonette was used for carting goods from Queanbeyan...”
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