Bainham Store

from toffee to t-shirts

Storekeeping was no new venture for Eleanor, wife of Edward Bates Langford, when Langford's Store opened in 1928. Prior to their 1900 Boxing Day marriage she had worked in her parents 'Waimea Road tuck shop' for Nelson College.

Bainham Store

When E.B.L. relinquished dairy farming to become Postmaster in 1924 and began selling stationery to go with the stamps, he invested in a printing press, while Eleanor sold her famous homemade toffee. After trying unsuccessfully to persuade the Government to finance a Post Office to replace the locally-owned building, he turned his attention to retailing.

Present owner Lorna Langford began working for her grandfather in 1947, in the days of tinned loose biscuits and vinegar in wooden casks. Those days are gone; today's shopper is likely to be a Heaphy Track tramper wanting insect repellant or postcards for home.

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