Burke Manuscript

Burke Manuscript: Page 108

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FIRST GOLDEN FLEECE in “Fifties”. Booth and Thomson stables.

[corner of] Armagh St, Colombo St

This was one of the first licensed houses in Chch. In 1852 Baron Von Gartner and Ellis, afterwards runholder, Oxford, were landlords. At that time it was the farmer’s house. It was afterwards landlorded by Westby Hawkshaw Percival, and Rich. W. Rayner; by J.F. Ballard, a great man for volunteering. Here the first volunteer meeting was held, about 1859, a certain Captain Atkinson, Barwell, a pensioner and some others taking part. “Johnny” Oakes, master of the little Emerald Isle, was also landlord & broke down over it. In the end it fell into the Orams’ hands, and they kept it for some years, getting the freehold. On the Armagh St frontage John Wm. Oram built a brick BOND in the sixties. At one time it became a regular Irish house of call and it saw some real old time drinking.

Baron Von Gartner, Fifties

Balcke, a landlord in the sixties

Robert Cressweell, D. Lewis’ boy

John McHarg, fifties