Evocative Images of Lost Toronto

[LPCI]

Whitby Junction is a historic railroad station, originally built at the foot of Byron Street in Whitby, Ontario. Under Canadian National the station was later known as Whitby, due to the closure of the central Whitby station between this station and Manilla Junction. The former Grand Trunk Railway station closed in 1969 and the building was first moved to the north-east corner of Victoria and Henry Streets for use as an art gallery and in 2004 moved across the road to its current location in Whitby Iroquois Park.[1] Wikipedia

 

[Goldie]

New Method Laundry Limited 1910 TPL

 

[DSC]

This from TPL is also dated 1910 and the location is given as north-west corner of Queen and River.

 

[Goldie]

Manufacturers' Building, Canadian National Exhibition 1906 TPL

 

[LPCI]

This from TPL is also dated 1910 and the location is given as north-west corner of Queen and River.
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A third floor was added.

 

[DSC]

A third floor was added.

Indeed it was, not an uncommon 'improvement'.

 

[Goldie]

 

[W. K. Lis]

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Just in case, this is a "flatiron"...

From link.

Imagine you are living in the early 1900s and you are a housewife and mother. Life is good, but there is always so much to do. Washing, cooking, cleaning, looking after the family and your least favourite job, ironing. Today it is very hot, but you have to do the ironing, and you aren’t looking forward to it at all. You will have to stand near the hot stove, which is bad enough, but on hot days you also seem to become less careful – you are sure to get a burn or two.

 

[Bogtrotter]

Love the old flatiron buildings. One of my favorites is the one in Atlanta built in 1897.

 

[Tasmanian Tiger]

Here is a rare colour photo of the armouries, while City Hall was under construction. What a terrible loss. The interplay between both the old and current City Hall, as well as Osgoode Hall, would have been quite the juxaposition of various architectural styles, from different eras, had the armouries been preserved:

Arthur, Eric Ross

 

[karledice]

Very sad, we will never get something like this again

 

[Northern Light]

Very sad, we will never get something like this again

We can; and we should, rebuild it.

A couple of heritage sites in Europe were completely reconstructed.

Its expensive, but it can be done; the public owns the land; it would be a worthwhile investment.

We can't recover all our lost heritage, just as we won't daylight every buried stream.

But in both cases, with public support and political will we can get some back; and we should make it happen.

 

[Richard White]

We can; and we should, rebuild it.

A couple of heritage sites in Europe were completely reconstructed.

Its expensive, but it can be done; the public owns the land; it would be a worthwhile investment.

We can't recover all our lost heritage, just as we won't daylight every buried stream.

But in both cases, with public support and political will we can get some back; and we should make it happen.

You could rebuild it BUT that is where the new courthouse is going.

 

[Northern Light]

You could rebuild it BUT that is where the new courthouse is going.

No, it is not.

The new Courhouse is on the north side of Armoury Street.

It is the current Courthouse that occupies the former Armoury lands.

 

[Goldie]