{"name":"Merged into","target":"W Walker, Sons and Bartholomew Ltd","target_text":null,"date":{"#markup":"<span class='date'>1901<\/span>"},"date_start":"1901","date_end":"1901"}
{"name":"Merged into","target":"Nock and Kirby","target_text":null,"date":{"#markup":"<span class='date'>1959<\/span>"},"date_start":"1959","date_end":"1959"}
{"name":"Founder","target":"Beard, William Henry","target_text":null,"date":{"#markup":"<span class='date'>1889<\/span>"},"date_start":"1889","date_end":"1889"}
{"name":"Founder","target":"Watson, James Henry","target_text":null,"date":{"#markup":"<span class='date'>1889<\/span>"},"date_start":"1889","date_end":"1889"}
Once Sydney's most exclusive furnishing store, with custom-designed furniture and fabrics, Beard Watson Limited dominated the high end of Sydney furniture retailing from the end of the nineteenth century until the 1960s.