This week’s pictures from the past

There is a special story behind this picture, as it shows Perry’s cycle shop in Wellington, which is celebrating its centenary.

Bill Perry, on the right, was about 19 when it was taken, which would make it about 1927. The other gentleman is unidentified and the family would like to find out who he is.

Over 50 relations of the Perry family gathered in celebration a few days ago.

Dorothy Vickers, the youngest daughter of the late Bill Perry, still lives at the Old Bike Shop in Park Street, with husband Ross.

She says her grandfather Samuel Perry started the shop there around 1908 when her father Bill was born. It was a large family of 14 children.

The shop was at Park Street until 1994 when it moved to Tan Bank.

This month Dorothy’s relations came from all over the world, including America, Germany, and Holland, and met at the Whitehouse Hotel in Wellington for a lunch to celebrate the 100 years of Bill’s birth and 100 years of the Perrys living in the same house at Park Street.