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The gully This ran across It carried a large volume of
Stray leaves from the “The man from
the grounds of St. water and emptied itself into
early history of Galway,
Michael’s the Avon River near
Canterbury, p 14 recollections of
parsonage and Manchester Street. In winter
Mr Thomas
wound its way in the gully became a deep creek
The early days of O’Connell”, The
a north-easterly negotiable by boat. An
Canterbury: a Star, 7 October
direction across advertisement in The Lyttelton
miscellaneous 1919, p 6
the centre of what Times invited applications for
collection of interesting
is today the hub the position of ferryman
facts dealing with the “John Etherden
of the city. across the gully. Preference
settlement’s first years Coker: the many
would be given to a man of
of colonisation, 1850- ups and downs of
sober habits.
1880, pp 57-58 a hotel-keeper”,
J. J. Thomson saw a wedding
The Press, 9 June
party upset in this hollow.
Dr Gundry’s diary, Vol
2, p 115-116
1956, p 11
Reminiscences of
“Memories of mud”, J. J. Thomson
The Press, 6 March
2010, p C5
Esq. 1926
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