Old Pics Of Hamilton

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Originally Posted by ScreamingViking

This Spec column ("‘Hamilton Mountain’ is a sign of our passion to exaggerate") revisiting the "mountain vs. uptown" issue Scott Radley wrote about last week had some old photos and a link to a recent song video by Mark McNeil with more scenes from the past.

Not sure which of the incline railways that is, but the first photo from 1888 looks like it may have been taken along the Jolley Cut? (if that is a recently built St. Patrick's church in the middle?). There's an image in the video that's flipped.

I bet it's James St. Look at the harbour, if it were Wentworth St. you would see it stick out where Stelco is now. Yes there was infill but it still stuck out.
It's a bit of a stretch, but that 1st photo could be Strongman road...