Historical information
Produced by John W Butler and George Stevens, relevant councils received copies of this directory in September 1865.
Physical description
Butler & Stevens' Sandhurst, Castlemaine and Echuca directory 1865-66
Produced in 1866. The directory has a brown fabric cover which has been embossed. The embossing has been worn down and is hard to see. The title is written in gold foiling in the centre of the cover.
The directory contains 73 pages of address listings and an additional 24 pages of advertisements.
Each town has had its addresses listed by street location and a separate listing of the same addresses listed in alphabetical order by name of occupant.
Inscriptions & markings
Additional handwritten pages were placed inside the front cover (2 A4 pages folded in half). Written in pen.
Inside the front cover and back cover written in pen:
"E.A. Martin
17 Johnston Street Castlemaine"
Title page (written in pen):
"Miss Martin
AMW Brotherton
from Miss Martin
24th April 1951"
Page 49 (written in pen) under Hargreaves Street - South to North right hand.
"Dublin and Melbourne Portrait Rooms"
and
"-Now 102
23 Feb 1953
The slate steps up from the street, there in 1888, still there
walked up there then + again today"
Page 52 written in pencil next to the address for the Bank of New South Wales and the Bank of Australasia.
"Completed 1861"
Page 54 written in pencil under the F and G headers.
"Miss Martin says had to (illegible) she meant Aitken's Street."
"See Duke of Edinburgh (illegible)"
Page 57 written in pencil under the S header.
"Smyth '' of Hargreaves street"
"Kate living at (illegible) 19/7/52"
