Burke Manuscript

Burke Manuscript: Page 125

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The first “PAWN SHOP” in Canterbury, opened by Alfred Isaac Raphael, about 1863. Corner of City Hotel and High St. Site now City Hotel.

Fuchs cabinet maker Asmussen watch maker

A.1 corner 1857-8 Blanchard surveyor

David Anderson watchmaker & dentist on site now E. Reece & Sons

H.Packer, Fifties

At the rear was Richard Packer’s Brewery, afterwards Craig, H.S. Brown &c. Also the site of the starting of P & D Duncan, as plough makers, &c.

Alfred Pigeon’s Wine & Spirit store- Cashel St, about NZ Clothing factory shop. Here almost daily a knot of old timers used to gather and do justice to Pigeon’s taps. Westby Hawkshaw Percival, father of the Sir Westby, a big, brawny, bearded man. Joseph Fantham who for years squatted in the unclaimed Twigger, Lincoln Road land. Frank Guinness, father of A.R. Guinness, sol. Harry Jackson, a rough Riccarton diamond, and many more, old Edward Ashby.

Mr Pigeon, Fifties Duncan