So who exactly was H Jones? That would be Henry Jones, a 19th-century entrepreneur who founded a fruit company in Tasmania. But not just a fruit company; a vertically integrated business empire.

He decided that his success would depend on controlling not only his fruit business, but most of the inputs to that business. He obtained timber concessions and sawmilling firms to create crates for his jams and fruits. He acquired orchards and hop fields. He acquired coastal and river shipping for transport. He acquired coal mines for fuel as well as tin plating and carbide works. He even got into banking and insurance for his producers.

All this sounds very admirable but unfortunately he was one of the old-style entrepreneurs who did not believe in government regulation of working conditions. He felt that he was the best arbiter of what was fair when it came to paying his workers and suppliers. Needless to say it tended to be more fair to him, than to them. A 1907 royal commission into wages and working conditions strongly criticised his businesses. That didn't prevent him from being knighted in 1919.

At one point his factories and warehouses occupied the whole of Hunter Street.

His company IXL (from his personal motto of "I excel in everything I do") was bought out by a corporate raider in the early 1970's and broken up. He was of course long, long dead by this time, but was probably spinning in his grave. These warehouses for example were stripped and sold off in 1977, but still bear his name for historical reasons. They now house a centre for the arts.