Burke Manuscript

Burke Manuscript: Page 123

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In its natural state the Avon had a big horse shoe bend. Thinking to make it navigable to Chch (the Bricks, now Star & Garter) a cutting was made. In the fifties, now and then a small craft came up to the Bricks. Called the Bricks because bricks had to be landed there and stacked for sale. Thacker, one of the early settlers, proposed a small steamer in the fifties, but it came to nothing.

Illsbury one of the contractors of the horse shoe cutting in the Avon

Mr Marshman in those days usually wore a cabbage tree hat.