Burke Manuscript

Burke Manuscript: Page 084

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This is, roughly, what the Market Place was like in the end fifties and early sixties. Then, the immigration barracks were built here, and other buildings along Colombo St. Some time after this, Colombo bridge was built. The Oxford Hotel section had a lean to upon it. Mr C.W. Bishop’s business place was beyond the pound, on Colombo St corner, opposite Oxford. Afterwards Miles & Co. Over the bridge where now Dr Irving’s, was William Gosling, the horse shoer, beyond that Edwin Coxhead’s building, later the Royal Oak. The first weigh bridge was near the old Market House (Post Office)

In Kilmore St in the “sixties”, Miss Nellie Duncan, the fashionable demimonde, held her court. On the Papanui Road, opposite now Moor’s Coach place, was the Willow Pattern Plate, another establishment. Earlier a Hobart Towney, one Jones, had a seraglio at the Junction of Mill lane and the Park. About that time, there was another up Colombo St North. One girl burnt to death. Amy Bentley was a notoriety – also Mrs Fleetwood, the Graingers, [paragraph not completed]