CHARLESTON
Regarding the fire of 3rd November, 1869, the following details have been taken from newspapers:—
“Six buildings were destroyed, but no lives lost. The loss was £1,500. The fire originated in the Commercial Hotel, due to the bursting of a kerosene lamp. The fire spread to the adjoining buildings, the Black Bull Hotel on one side, and the Greengrocery of Mr. Taylor on the other. This was before the fire-brigade had procured a fire-engine, so McCarthy’s water-race was broken and the water allowed to flow down the street while the towns-people got busy with buckets.”
PRINCE’S STREET WEST—SOUTH SIDE.
The portion of this street adjoining Rotten Row was, before the issue of survey plan, included in the term “Coal Street” and the portion from Sections 63 to 72, with 1 to 10, was known as “The Cutting,” or as Beach Street.
Section.
- 64.—G. W. Salter’s house. Grantee, G. W. Salter.
- 66.—Mitchell’s School, later Brown’s School.
- 68.—Robert Flynn’s house.
- 70.—Sergeant Stephenson’s house (previously on the beach). Grantees, part Henry Masters and part Kate Whelan.
- 71.—Henry Magey, Watchmaker, 1867, “next to Bank of N.S.W.”; later J. P. Christensen, 1867, Jeweller; later Miss Bourke’s house.
- 72.—Bank of New South Wales; later removed to Section 407. Grantee, Bank of New South Wales.
- 103.—Grantee, Wm. Henry Hillyar.
- 104.—Grantee, James Parsons.
- 105.—Gardner & Sutton’s, Warehouse. Grantee, Gardner & Sutton.
- 108.—Charleston Butchery, J. Buckland, 1868, “next to Crewdson’s Hotel.” Royal Hotel and Stables, Moses Crewdson, 1867; later Daniel Dennehy, “opposite Hatch’s Bakery.” This hotel and several adjoining buildings were on high piles, the ground beneath them having been sluiced away. From this hotel the
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