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STREET DIRECTORY
- Shearer’s house.
- Challis’s house.
- Max Knudson’s house.
- David Roger’s house.
- Samuel Hardley’s house, stables and paddocks. This house was bought by Shetlanders and removed to Nine-mile Beach. The site was later built upon by Higgins. The road continued onward to Back Lead, with a side-road to Slaughter Yard.
FOOTNOTES.
Regarding the Brewery on Darkie’s Terrace Road:
- In January, 1868, it was Sutton & Spiers’ Brewery.
- In February, 1868, it was Spiers & Clarke’s; the Phoenix.
- In April, 1868, it was auctioned by Spiers & Clarke, together with two-thirds of Mann’s coalpit at rear of the brewery. It is believed that it was bought by Gasquoine for £150.
- In May, 1868, it was purchased by R. C. Parker and D. Garsides, of Brighton, and re-named the Standard.
- In December, 1869, Parker left the firm and T. G. Macarthy bought his interest. Thenceforth it was operated by Macarthy and Garsides as the Standard.
- Harry Mann erected a brewery on Section 141 in 1867.
- In Charleston Herald of 17th March, 1868, reference is made to two other breweries, viz., the “Star,” P. McElligott, and “Strike’s.” Both were established in 1867.
- In the same newspaper of 3rd November, 1868, there appeared advertisements of three breweries, then operating, viz., the “Star,” owned by M. Shanahan, “Strike & Co.,” and the “Standard.”
In 1940 there are but four buildings on Darkie’s Terrace Road—the School, the old Methodist Parsonage, Higgins’s house, and the Church of England, rebuilt in 1913.
DARKIE’S TERRACE ROAD—SOUTH SIDE.
- Post Office, on Post Office Reserve.
- Water-race, under the road, from dam behind Section 333.
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