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 * 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.

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.


 * Post Office, on Post Office Reserve.
 * Water-race, under the road, from dam behind Section 333.