Burke Manuscript

Burke Manuscript: Page 100

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The original City Hotel frontage. From High St corner to Colombo St corner. A big gully through the section from Cashel St on to Cathedral Square. The land from the City to the Grain agency belonged to one Buchanan a milkman. He sold it to WmWilson for a/c due & cash, about 80. The first houses on City block were built on piles – a deep gully running through.

J.G. Ruddenklau, Pie shop &c.

Eales Boarding House

Hopsack, Grocer

T. Thompkins [?] Baker

Afterwards Ruddenklau got Eales’ House, and a Beer License. Then the others, and made it into the City Hotel, which has since been altogether rebuilt, when it got into the Brewery hands. Fitzgerald called the artesian sunk in 1868, opposite City, “a fine specimen of a seedling pump”.

About 1856-9

From High St Corner to Grain Agency, there were only two shops, like the above, one Pengelly, a tailor, who had I think the very 1^st shop on the Triangle opposite the “Hall”. Later the other was Adams, or Attwood, shoemaker. On the section behind was a forge belonging to two brothers, Hossack.