Page’s Building (2016–2020 Great North Road)

Completed in 1903, and designed by John Currie, this building began as the Avondale branch of the A. W. Page grocery and supply business based at Kingsland. It was the beginning of the suburb’s first purpose-built modern shopping centre. Edward Wood and Ben Bollard leased the building from Arthur Page in 1906 and set up the Bollard & Wood store until 1922, when William Amos set up the “Spot Cash” store there (later operated by his son Vic Amos until 1967). Like the Avondale Hotel, Page’s Store benefited from the location close to the Five Roads intersection and that there was no equivalent service centre for goods and supplies between Avondale and Henderson. Deliveries from the store were made all over West Auckland.

Continue north along Great North Road.