PART TWO - Location, Location, Location
The first premises of the newly formed Scott Bonnar Company seemed quite
different to the first two, where Scott acted as a sole proprietor.

Notice how Chapel Street is a bit 'out of the way' ... it wasn't in the CBD
or within walking distance of it. There would be no 'walk-by' trading and
quite different to Scott's Young Street and Bloor Court premises ... both
just off major, outer CBD roads.

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I feel there was a reason for this. The main intended business was
wholesale brassware ... selling to hardwares via a catalogue system.
I have found no evidence of retail brassware activity.

However, there is indication that this outer location posed a problem
for the other side of the business - a now almost forgotten and un-recognised
side of the business - electric welding. The potential was unknown.

CHAPEL STREET Characters
The historically important Sands & McDougall Directory was revealing in the
'characters' that inhabited Chapel Street in those days. For example, the
1919 Directory says that Port Road was sprinkled with commercial premises.
Chapel Street was largely residential.

No 3 Chapel Street was used by W.H. Stevens, a French Polisher, and right
next door was George Moore, a Circus proprietor. Most of Chapel Street was
taken up with a typical snap shot of the times ... households of labourers,
but a few trades too (firemen, stokers, drivers, storekeepers, bootmakers ...

The first reference to Scott Bonnar being at Chapel Street is listed in the
1921 Directory. The last reference occurs in the 1931 Directory, suggesting
the Company used or owned these premises for a decade. Here is an extract
from the 1921 Directory:-

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TO BE CONTINUED ...