Retail company formed in 1936 by former George Courts employees Gordon Pollock and Bertie Barker. When it went into liquidation in 2000, it had 18 stores in the North Island, including 11 in Auckland. In its heyday in the 1980s, Barker & Pollock had four stores on Auckland's Queen Street.
Barker & Pollock Fabrics Ltd
Dr Margaret Bailey :[Paper bags. 1970-1990s]
Date: 1970 - 1995
By: Bailey, Margaret Lockhart (Dr), 1945-
Reference: Eph-C-BAGS-Bailey-Paper
Description: Includes bags from: Paper Plus, Capital Books, Pharmacy, Arthur Toye, Whitcoulls, Our Health Shop, DIC, Kirkcaldie & Stains, London Bookshop, Whitcombe & Tombs, Unity Books, Hannahs, Unichem, Barker & Pollock, Ballentynes, Camera House, Booksellers, Vita Health Foods, Blue Sky, Four Square, Bookman's (Wanganui) Quantity: 44 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Colour prints, on paper bags, sizes varying Provenance: Donated by Dr Margaret Bailey, Porirua, in 2006.
Barker & Pollock pattern club card. Simplicity patterns, Style patterns, New Look patte...
Date: 1980 - 1990
By: Barker & Pollock Fabrics Ltd
Reference: Eph-A-COSTUME-1980s-01
Description: Loyalty card. When the card has been stamped "B&P" with six pattern purchases, the seventh pattern can be purchased free of charge. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offsett print on card, folded t0 72 x 61 mm.