Monday, April 25, 2022

Kent Brewery should be preserved

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Y ork Developments proposes to construct a at the southeast corner of St. George and Ann Streets. The building, in the shape of an H, would ...
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Monday, April 11, 2022

On The Road Again: Another Move For London's Fugitive Slave Chapel

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I've written about London's Fugitive Slave Chapel  here  but to give readers a short recap: The tiny building shown on the right was...
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Sunday, April 10, 2022

My 10 Least Favourite London, Ontario Buildings

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Ever since I listed my favourite London buildings  here , I've been trying to decide what I'd put on a list of my least favourite. I...
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Sunday, February 20, 2022

Richard Clutton Wright Makes The Great Migration

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Historians have called the period from 1815 to 1850 the Great Migration to Canada since, during those years, over 800,000 immigrants, mainly...

The Byron Barn Blunder

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William Griffiths' barn as drawn by Louis Taylor in Nancy Tausky's Historical Sketches of London: From Site to City. Broadview Press...
Sunday, January 30, 2022

Promenade Past "The Pit"

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Walking around London allows me to notice places I'd never see when whizzing by in a car. And having so many hang-out spots closed due t...
Thursday, December 2, 2021

Wright Lithographing in the "Good Old Days"

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London Life employees pose before company headquarters ca. 1920. The building became Wright Lithographing. (From the writer's collection...