GlennTaylor
New Member
Hi,
Firstly my apologies for jumping into this thread, and if there is a more appropriate forum or thread for my needs then I'd be delighted to learn of it. This is a rather unusual query but there is an outside chance that someone here may be able to help. Here goes:
Over thirty years ago I acquired a postcard (scanned below) from an aged relative containing a picture of an unknown property. The message side of the postcard contains the text "Here is our new address" in pencil, together with the printed text "Made in Canada"; the problem is that no address is actually written. The house is numbered 61 (but might be 67) and the plaque to the right of the front door bears the text "Albert FISH, Teacher of Music". This name is enough to indicate that this is a distant ancestor of mine and by a circuitous route I have lately discovered that he was living in Chester Avenue, York South, Toronto in the 1921 Census. I have no date for the postcard in question but it was given to me with other postcards that are suggestive of the 1920s.
I have recently looked at 61 Chester Avenue using Google Street View to find that this property is similar to that on the card (the roof line and side overhang being different) but I then find that numbers 67 and 69 Chester Avenue are even more (!!) similar, although still not quite right as the roof windows are not quite in the same position (being separate [Google] rather than between the front doors [postcard]). This leads me to the belief that the property in the postcard is likely to be somewhere in the vicinity and probably constructed by the same builder. You can guess what's coming...
Does anybody recognise where this property might actually be?
Thank you for reading this far and my further thanks if you are able to give it some thought and some possibilities for me to point Google Street View at.
Glenn
Bristol, UK
Firstly my apologies for jumping into this thread, and if there is a more appropriate forum or thread for my needs then I'd be delighted to learn of it. This is a rather unusual query but there is an outside chance that someone here may be able to help. Here goes:
Over thirty years ago I acquired a postcard (scanned below) from an aged relative containing a picture of an unknown property. The message side of the postcard contains the text "Here is our new address" in pencil, together with the printed text "Made in Canada"; the problem is that no address is actually written. The house is numbered 61 (but might be 67) and the plaque to the right of the front door bears the text "Albert FISH, Teacher of Music". This name is enough to indicate that this is a distant ancestor of mine and by a circuitous route I have lately discovered that he was living in Chester Avenue, York South, Toronto in the 1921 Census. I have no date for the postcard in question but it was given to me with other postcards that are suggestive of the 1920s.
I have recently looked at 61 Chester Avenue using Google Street View to find that this property is similar to that on the card (the roof line and side overhang being different) but I then find that numbers 67 and 69 Chester Avenue are even more (!!) similar, although still not quite right as the roof windows are not quite in the same position (being separate [Google] rather than between the front doors [postcard]). This leads me to the belief that the property in the postcard is likely to be somewhere in the vicinity and probably constructed by the same builder. You can guess what's coming...
Does anybody recognise where this property might actually be?
Thank you for reading this far and my further thanks if you are able to give it some thought and some possibilities for me to point Google Street View at.
Glenn
Bristol, UK
in the knowledge that Eleanor and Glenn are now in email contact.