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Sneak peek: Get a look inside the brand new, $29 million Drome Street Bunnings

More than 190 people will be employed at the Drome Street store when it opens, with 120 employees from the existing site to be joined by an additional 70 from next week. While there is still some electrical work being completed, the majority of the stock has been placed in the 19,000 square metre store – almost twice the size of the old store.

Lunatic asylums and war-ships: How Bunnings came to rule hardware and sausage sizzles

The brothers enjoyed the flowing profits and plentiful business opportunities that came with the WA gold boom in the 1890s — building a post office and a hospital — and by 1907, had launched Bunning Brothers Limited and opened their first sawmill/timber yard.