Burke Manuscript

Burke Manuscript: Page 051

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The old Mill, Hereford St, was built by Mr Daniel Inwood, about 1857, and carried on by him until 1862, when Mr W.H. Lane, an arrival from Adelaide, took possession of it. At first there was a very narrow dangerous sort of bridge just wide enough for a dray unloading wheat, then owing to the danger an agitation caused a narrow foot way to be made as a protection for passers. It was a busy place in the sixties before exportation of wheat had become a business and drays might be seen waiting to unload, extending up the Terrace, on one occasion as far as the Royal.

Mr G.B. Fooks Fifties

Col. De Renzie Brett an old warrior, once Col. of the 18^th Royal Irish. A fiery, impulsive man, went into farming and called the place KIRWEE.

The Colonel

Thomas Raine Fifties

One of the mysteries of New Brighton and its sand is the disappearance of Venner in the sixties. Never traced.

Mr Sewell Fifties

An old identity before New Brighton

W. De Froy