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Mr. Walker's notes form the basis of
subsequent researches and consequently of this chronicle. The date
of establishment apparently puzzled him as much as it has puzzled
the compilers of this present work. Without definite information
at a time when many sources of reference were closed owing to war
restrictions, Mr. Walker wisely resisted the temptation of jumping
to conclusions; he merely ventured the opinion that the date might
be that of the building of the old premises in the Borough, known
to generations by the sign of The Dog's Head in the Pot where
since 1783 an ironmonger's establishment had existed. Modest by
comparison with the present buildings of Haywards Limited, they are
noteworthy in that here in this ancient and historic part of London
associated with such names as Chaucer, Shakespeare, Johnson, Dickens,
Harvard and many others, the name Haywards of the Borough asserted
itself both as in identification and recommendation.
Today, only the headquarters of the company
are situated in Southwark, but the name as stuck. How that name,
known the world over, came to be made it is the purpose of this book
to tell.
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