George Coleman's Millinery & Drapery Store, Gulgong
Source: Mitchell Library, SLNSW
Drapery & Millinery store of George Coleman in Herbert Street, next door to Charles Poole the tailor and opposite the Golden Fleece Hotel. George Coleman also had a branch at Home Rule. In early 1873 Coleman sold his Gulgong and Home Rule establishments to James Clifton, and his new address was the Royal Hyde Park Hotel, Sydney.
Source: Information supplied by Baldwin & Davis, Research Gulgong (Sept 2006)
Mr. Coleman has now opened his well stocked millinery, drapery and clothing store in Herbert Street. All our drapery and clothing stores are looking very attractive just now, the shops when lit up of an evening, being very enticing.
Source: Gulgong Guardian, Issue No 10 – 22nd April 1871
Is it Coleman in both of the pictures above?
Source: The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954) Fri 20 Dec 1872 Page 7
Mr. Coleman, the draper of Herbert-street has also opened a branch, well supplied with seasonable and fashionable goods:—thus saving people the perils and expense of a trip to Gulgong to invest their money: Mr. Morris, the auctioneer Queen-street, has with his usual energy and foresight secured premises in the centre of business, where he will, on Monday, Wednesday, and Saturdays knock down anything: to anybody for almost any sum —a proof of his obliging nature. The shells of at least half-a-dozen “hotels” are up in the Main street [Home Rule]—as the thoroughfare first built upon is called. We do not know the owners, but no doubt, in a few weeks when they do obtain permission to sell that they will make themselves known.
George Coleman's General Store, Home Rule, 1870-75
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Bark dwelling attached to Coleman's store, Home Rule
Is it Coleman in both of the pictures above?
Henry White, chemist & Alexander McCulloch, stationers etc., Home Rule
George Coleman, far right (detail below).
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1872 - DRAPERS, CLOTHIERS, and MILLINERS.
For SALE or to be LET, at the now flourishing town of GULGONG.
Mr. GEORGE COLEMAN, in retiring from the Drapery, Millinery, and Men's Clothing Business, at Gulgong, wishes to dispose of his premises, consisting of a fine Iron STORE, 28 feet x 24, with back parlour, bedroom, kitchen, stables, coach-house, &c.; built on a freehold allotment, 36 feet by 105 feet; the best business site in Gulgong.
This shop has now been open two years, doing a fine steady trade—a sure fortune in a few years for the purchaser or tenant. NO STOCK left, and no consideration for goodwill required.
Price, £350; or to LET at £3 10s per week.
Apply to Messrs. CHRISTOPHER NEWTON, BROTHER, and CO., George-street, Sydney; or GEORGE COLEMAN, Gulgong.
1873 - IMPORTANT MINING NOTICE.
Mr. GEORGE COLEMAN, late of Gulgong, is the authorised AGENT of the United Black Lead claim, Gulgong, Nos. 37 to 39, both Nos. inclusive. - GERALD SPRING, Hon. Sec.
