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John Lyons
John Lyons was a signwriter who worked for J. W. Davies Signs and then in 1928 formed his own business with William Evans, Lyons & Evans.
Library:
John T. Lyons was a signwriter. Here he is painting a sign for William Hooper, a watchmaker and jeweller in High Street from 1881 to 1940/41.
Mr Hooper supplied and installed the Town Hall clock, which arrived from England aboard the SS Port Darwin on 4 April 1888. Ref. no. 2182, n.d.
References and links
Grateful acknowledgements to Lyons family member Esme.
The top version of the photo, in shades of grey, is from the Library's website. The yellowish version is from an unknown poster in Facebook.
This page incorporates material from Garry Gillard's Freotopia website, that he started in 2014 and the contents of which he donated to Wikimedia Australia in 2024. The content was originally created on 16 February, 2023 and hosted at freotopia.org/people/lyonsjohn.html (it was last updated on 13 March, 2024), and has been edited since it was imported here (see page history). The donated data is also preserved in the Internet Archive's collection.