Mustapha
Senior Member
Agreed. I’m impressed that the row of four cottages pictured in this ad from 1878:
http://images92.torontopubliclibrary.ca/idc/groups/public/documents/pictures/pictures-r-1486.jpg
…are still standing, and in apparently good condition, on the south side of Shuter immediately east of Patterson (or Paterson) Place.
Indeed. I did a Google street view. They are well looked after; clad in some kind of siding.
I guess these were the ‘monster homes’ of their day
There's a row of a half dozen similar cottages, which look to be well maintained, on my old street - Cambridge Avenue, just east of the Don Valley.
I'll bet you have to pare your possessions to a minimum in order to live in those types of homes.
TIMFX, DSC and Anna. The Canary and surrounding area reminds me of the East London Docklands area a bit. Old buildings surrounded by odd open spaces - spaces as a result of bombing during WWII.
August 7 addition.
Then. Shaftesbury Place. April 5, 1940.
Now. July 2010.