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Queen Victoria Building (QVB) Shop Tenders Register

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Unique IDAS-0891Date1st January 1898Date qualifierexactFormatLoose PapersShort descriptionThis series contains original letters written to the Town Clerk by businesses tendering for vacant shops in the new Queen Victoria Market Building and a partially completed register of the tenders.DescriptionThis series contains original letters written to the Town Clerk by businesses tendering for vacant shops in the new Queen Victoria Market Building and a partially completed register of the tenders.

The letter volume contains several folders labelled 'Tenders Shops Etc. QVMB', 'Lease of Whole Building', 'Advertising Spaces', 'Basement', 'Coffee Palace', 'Offers for Offices - Special', and 'Penny in the Slot Machines'. Each of these folders contains letters tendering for particular shops. Each shop was identified by a number, and some of the letters have the shop number annotated on them in red or blue ink. It also contains several copies of the Deed of Grant for the George Street Market site and further documents relating to the building completion of Queen Victoria Building markets.

The register volume itself contains a partially completed register of the tenders. The register contains the shop number (from 1 to 64), names and addresses of tenderers, type of business, the amount offered, and the name of the successful tender. The first few entries in the register are signed by Matthew Harris, the Mayor.Relationship summaryCREATED BY: Town Clerks Department AG-0040 (01/01/1898 to 01/01/1898) LanguageEnglish (eng)

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QVB Tenders book

Comparitive Statement of Claim of works in connection with the building of QVB New Market -

Letter to Mr. H J Daniels Esq. Town Clerk from Phippard Bros., contractors for the building of the

Incomplete table listing Shop numbers, Businesses names and addresses and rent

Office dimensions for Office Nos. 10, 11, First Floor and No. 6, Second Floor.

File note listing shops with tenders - Pater & Penprace for office on second floor ; W.A. Hogg for

Tender received by W. Headford of 9 Imperial Arcade City to apply for permission to place in the

Title Page: Penny in the Slot Machine QV Markets

Tender received by Cater & Penprase, C.P. Manufacturing Co. of 5 Cambridge St, to lease an office

Tender received by Humphrey,E.S. of Jepson Bros. & Co. at 75 York St Sydney to lease Room No. 2 on

Tender received by W.J. Gunning, Agent for Manufacturers at 75 York St Sydney to lease Room 3 on

Tender received by Alice Millingden of 24 Queen St, Paddington to lease one of the offices on the

Tender received by John Mackay of 297 Pitt St Sydney to lease Room 8 on the first floor for a

Tender received by H.G. Harte of Harte & Co. Sign, Poster, and Ticket Writers, Advertising

Tender received by P. Liffins of Victoria Arcade to lease Shop No. 7 as a Ladies' Tailor, 1898

Tender received by G.R. Swyny, Estate Agent at the Royal Arcade, Pitt St Sydney to lease half an

Tender received by Cater & Vernay of 106 Strand Arcade to lease Shop No. 6 on the second floor as

Tender received by August Beil, Import and Export Agent to lease either Shop Nos. 10, 11 First Flr

Title page: Offices for QVMB - not digitised

Tender received by Rosenthal & co and W. Gallagher of Oxford St City & Metropolitan Hotel King St

Tender received by Arthur Brooks House & Land & Estate Agent & Valuer of 9 Hunter St Sydney to

Tender received by Walker Bros, House and Estate Agents of 108 Pitt St, Sydney on behalf of a

Title Page: Coffee Palace

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CSA069322

CSA069321

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CollectionQueen Victoria Building (QVB)Creating agenciesTown Clerk's Department

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Queen Victoria Building (QVB) Shop Tenders Register