"Wood Draper" Store c1890

Harry Percival Woods (1885-1952) took over his mother’s drapery store and, as his obituary later noted, ‘with his inherent enthusiasm and business acumen, revitalised the business and developed “Woods of Yarraville” into the flourishing establishment that it is today’. Copy of a woodcut by Charles Lovett showing Anderson Street, Yarraville, looking east from the railway crossing. c1890. Picture owned by Footscray Historical Society 'Ercildoune'