Full title: Piece of wood forming part of a pump tube, ca. 1860-1901

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Date: ca. 1860-1901.

Call Numbers: DR 170

Record Identifier: Y0KDpza1

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Formats: Objects

Contents: 1 pump - 23 x 11.8 cm - wood

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Notes: Note written in Sir William Dixon's hand: 'Block of wood with round hole in it. This is part of a pump tube - most of which was given to the technological Museum, Sydney. About 1899 it became necessary for Dixson & Sons, Ltd. Tobacco Factory at the corner of Park and Elizabeth Streets to be enlarged so the company purchased a piece of land on the south end of the Elizabeth Street front on which were two buildings, Raleigh's Stove factory and the Carlton Club Hotel, which was de-licensed, kept by a Miss Collins, Known as Fat Annie, as a fried fish shop and bawdy house. This land was at one time occupied by Alderson's Tannery and was on the line of the upper part of the Tank Stream. When the buildings were being demolished by the City Council Health Dept. the foreman was one of the Aldersons who, at one time, lived on the premises. In the process of cleaning up they came across an old well in which they found this pump tube, and Alderson, then a very old man, stated that he had not heard of there being a well. The hole had been bored along the length of the log and must have been done somewhere about the period 1820-40 if not earlier'

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