Langford Store

Langford Store
Langford Store
General information
Town or city	Bainham
Country	New Zealand
Coordinates	40°45′52″S172°33′47″E / 40.76444°S 172.56306°E
Completed	1928
Known for	General store
Website
	www.langfordstore.co.nz
Heritage New Zealand – Category 2
Designated	12 December 1990
Reference no.	5110

Last updated September 10, 2024

Langford Store, also known as the Bainham Store and until 2009 as Langford's Store, is a historic general store at Bainham in the Tasman District of the South Island, New Zealand. A new combined post office and general store at Bainham was built in 1928 by the local postmaster, Edward Bates Langford. He leased part of the building to the Post Office and Telegraph Department to provide postal services, while using the remainder as a store.^[1]

Description

The Langford Store maintains a russet 1920s appearance.^[2] It is a combined post office and general store, once a common sight in rural New Zealand but has become rare.^[1]

The Langford Store's floor is constructed from concrete slabs, the cladding is timber, and the roofing is galvanised corrugated iron. Tongue and groove boards are used to line the interior.^[1]

History

Edward Bates Langford was postmaster of the area since 1923. In 1925 a proposal to construct to a new post office was put forward but Langford suggested that he would build a combined general store and post office with the post office being leased from Langford. The Post Office Department agreed to this plan and a building was erected in 1928.^[1]

Lorna Langford started working for the store in 1947 doing basic tasks for her grandfather, Edward.^[2] Lorna took over as postmistress in 1952 and the running of the general store in 1954. She ran the businesses until retiring in either 2008 or 2009^{[lower-alpha 1]}, when Sukhita Langford, Edward's great granddaughter,^[2] moved from Wellington to take over the store. Lorna Langford died in 2020.^[3]^[4]

Under Sukhita's management the store became an art gallery and café.^[2]

The building was accorded historic place category 2 listing by Heritage New Zealand in 1990, and has become a tourist attraction in its own right.^[1]^[3]

As of 2024, three generations of the Langford family have operated the store.^[2]

Notes

↑ Her obituary published by Stuff states she retired in 2009 while in Heritage Quarterly and on the Heritage New Zealand website it says she retired in 2008^[3]^[2]^[1]

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References

1 2 3 4 5 6 "Bainham store". Heritage New Zealand. Retrieved 13 January 2022.
1 2 3 4 5 6 Watt, David (February 2024). Adrienne, Hannan (ed.). "The Langford Store: a living museum and community legacy". Heritage Quarterly. No. Summer 2023/2024. Heritage New Zealand. pp. 4–5. ISSN 2324-4267.
1 2 3 Hindmarsh, Nina (24 October 2020). "Obituary: Lorna Langford, New Zealand's longest-serving postmistress". Stuff . Retrieved 13 January 2022.
↑ "Personal notices". GB Weekly. 16 October 2020. p. 13. Retrieved 9 September 2024. Lorna Mary Langford, formerly store-keeper, Bainham. Passed away peacefully at Golden Bay Community Hospital on Tuesday 13 October 2020.

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[4] Her obituary published by Stuff states she retired in 2009 while in Heritage Quarterly and on the Heritage New Zealand website it says she retired in 2008^[3]^[2]^[1]

[HNZ-1] 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Bainham store". Heritage New Zealand. Retrieved 13 January 2022.

[quarterly-2] 1 2 3 4 5 6 Watt, David (February 2024). Adrienne, Hannan (ed.). "The Langford Store: a living museum and community legacy". Heritage Quarterly. No. Summer 2023/2024. Heritage New Zealand. pp. 4–5. ISSN 2324-4267.

[Stuff_2020-3] 1 2 3 Hindmarsh, Nina (24 October 2020). "Obituary: Lorna Langford, New Zealand's longest-serving postmistress". Stuff . Retrieved 13 January 2022.

[5] "Personal notices". GB Weekly. 16 October 2020. p. 13. Retrieved 9 September 2024. Lorna Mary Langford, formerly store-keeper, Bainham. Passed away peacefully at Golden Bay Community Hospital on Tuesday 13 October 2020.

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