The Shopping Centre Lawson.
This is currently in a degraded state owing to some 40 years of neglect resulting from the 1951 establishment of a highway corridor with vague plans for a highway widening. The centre could be considered as an urban precinct reflecting the life-style of a community between the Wars. Fires have destroyed many of the items reflecting an earlier period of Blue Mountains history and inappropriate alterations have spoiled others.
Honour Avenue Shops
The shops fronting Honour Avenue and adjacent to The Blue Mountain Hotel are examples of this despoliation. The original group was built in 1890 by a William Hart, and from 1892 - 1925, with the Post Office moving here from Badgery's Crescent, it became the major retail centre for Lawson and surrounding districts. In 1907 W.G. Staples moved here from his general store in Badgery's Crescent and this group of shops became known as Staples Post Office Stores.
Honour Avenue shops pre-1970's
The same group of shops shows the un-sympathetic addition of alluminium cladding begun in the 1970's.
Honour Avenue shops 2004 (left) with the cladding covering all the shop's facades.