Wandering Wellington Street Once Again

Yesterday, during another medical appointment drop-off, I had extra time to drive around downtown to check out various industrial waterfront sites of interest. This pop-up post contains my photographic proceeds. Looking very much like a chalet in the Alps, albeit in the shadow of Rideaucrest, the Doornekamp Queen City Oil Company  is slowly progressing. Look at the pitch on that new roof (top photo).

I had never snapped this mural on the south side of the Woolen Mill. Nearby farther south is a fenced off area for a proposed residential development, labelled in this Googlemaps image as Molly Brant Point. Formerly the site of oil and coal depots, and like many locations along Kingston's former industrial waterfront, I'm sure remediation will result:

Inner Harbour view towards the doomed LaSalle Causeway bridge, taken at the Woolen Mill parking lot. A big road crane has arrived to begin disassembly. Many Kingstonians are getting positively sentimental about this soon-to-disappear green metal monster!

These former PUC buildings, on Queen Street, hemmed in by new developments, will probably soon also be toast:

The Merchant:

Former joint trackage location near the Holiday Inn. Those distinctively diagonal building backs belie their former railway relevance.

New development at Queen and Ontario. The Smith-Robinson building is just visible along Ontario Street at left:

You can never go wrong with a Bajus Brewery photo. And I can rarely go past without taking one!

I was on my way to check out MetalCraft Marine, currently land-locked with the inoperable causeway bridge. Captain Matthew Flinders may have circumnavigated the Australia continent, but he can't even navigate his way out of the Inner Harbour until the bridge is removed before reconstruction, now. In the dry dock:

Whale, Terra Australis and sailing ship on the bow. Flinders completed his inshore circumnavigation of that southerly continent at 1803, and died at the age of 40!