Trigg and Danes Coach Builders (1980 Great North Road)

Across Great North Road is the site of Trigg & Danes coach building shop. Charles Alfred Trigg was a bicycle repairer by trade, with sign writing as a side specialty. In 1916, he and Jerome Danes established at this location an early service and repair garage that served horse and cart traffic, as well as early motor vehicles. Trigg had sole ownership by 1920, and by 1926 had one of the first service garages in the area to have a “kerbside benzine pump” on a forecourt, the floor of which is still part of the left-hand side of the existing shops. By 1966, the Avondale Auction House was trading from this site, and added the right-hand side of the present shop in 1970. By the 1980s, the business became known as Avondale Spiders, after the local icon. Avondale Spiders closed down in mid-2006.

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