This topic has surfaced a number of times while compiling the various business directories. It was decided to apply a liberal interpretation in identifying the longest operating establishments in the West End.
Since various printed directories have differing data gathering and printing cycles the dates used may be in error by a year or two. It is also allowed that a business type may have been continuous but under a different name. All we are looking for is a continuity of business, location or type of use. These issues though real do not affect the essential value of the resulting information. I will let the visitors to this page decide what is relevant and useful to them and why.
Please feel free to share with us any additional or more valid information to make this list as accurate as possible and also to acknowledge any other establishments that may have been omitted.
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