Oh, there's another side to Kingston besides the industrial waterfront trackage and industry I enjoy researching and modelling? Let's turn our back on the Hanley Spur part of town for a moment and look west. There's a university, prison, residential blocks, historic buildings and hospitals out there. Who knew??
Well, we all did, and we've all spent some time there (some of us years and years working), so when I received an electronic copy of this Wallace R. Berry original 16x20-inch image that was recently unframed and scanned in high-resolution, I had a lot to look at. I've looked at Kingston 'from both sides now'! Click on image for much larger view:
- red arrow - vessel at PUC water plant (now Gord Downie Pier)
- green arrow - salvage vessel in Portsmouth Harbour - prior to 1976 Sailing Olympics repurposing
- blue arrow - Cataraqui Bay grain elevator
- yellow arrow - McArthur Hall/College (built between 1969 and 1971)
- orange arrow - County gaol and wall (demolished 1974)
And thanks to Stu's comment below, the new Richardson Stadium not being built yet. So I think we can confidently date this photo as taken in 1969 or 1970.
The new Richardson Stadium at west campus opened in 1971 and nothing has happened at the site yet. Duncan MacArthur Hall appears to still be under construction (it looks like a construction site on the Union St. side), so I would guess this was taken in 1969 or 1970
ReplyDeleteThanks, Stu! Great points and I'm going to backdate the photo date a bit.
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