T. J. Haymes
History
Thomas Jefferson Haymes opened a paint contracting and hardware business in Ballarat in the early 1900s.[1]
In the late 1890’s, Thomas Jefferson Haymes, who is my great grandfather, started a hardware store, and in that hardware store he sold all the traditional hardware products. He also had a little area out the back where he made his own paints, and I believe most hardware stores around the world at that point operated the same way, where you got your pigments, you got your raw materials, you got your solvents. You bring it out the back and you had the little bits of machinery and you did most of it by hand, and made your paint that way. His business sort of grew I guess, and he got into radio and other things.[2]
In 1903 he was living at 22 Steinfeld Street, Ballarat East.[3] By 1922 he was at 129 Victoria Street, Ballarat East.[4]
In 1912 Tom Haymes studied Electricity and Magnetism at the Ballarat School of Mines. [5]
Legacy
See also
Notes
References
- ↑ Victoria, Australia - Leadership and Success
- ↑ Matthew Haymes, Heritage Paint, COTMA Conference, Ballarat, 2000, http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:TTFN-r4gj14J:www.cotma.org.au/documents/ballarat_2000/Ballarat%25202000%2520Paper%25204.pdf+&cd=4&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=au
- ↑ 1903 Electoral Roll, Victoria, Ballarat, Ballarat East
- ↑ 1922 Electoral Roll, Victoria, Ballarat, Ballarat East
- ↑ http://victoriancollections.net.au/items/4f72ae9e97f83e0308603d7e