Old Pics Of Hamilton - Page 40

Dr Awesomesauce · #**781** Posted **Jan 15, 2015, 11:44 AM**

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Dr Awesomesauce · #**782** Posted **Jan 15, 2015, 11:45 AM**

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Originally Posted by CaptainKirk

^Dead and gone.

Good view of the old Tuckett Tobacco factory just above the BoE building.

LikeHamilton · #**783** Posted **Jan 15, 2015, 5:16 PM**

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Originally Posted by Dr Awesomesauce

^Dead and gone.

I like the 4 storey white building to the left (West) of the BoE. It is Hamilton Store Fixtures and it has windows! Not like now with the shity metal clading on it with no windows. I wish they would remove it all and refurbish the outside.

Dr Awesomesauce · #**784** Posted **Jan 15, 2015, 11:35 PM**

^Good eye. Yeah, that would be tremendous.

Still miss the Board building, though what has replaced it seems decent enough.

CaptainKirk · #**785** Posted **Jan 16, 2015, 2:16 AM**

Johnston Motor Sales, King Street and Burris Avenue 1923

FB VH

CaptainKirk · #**786** Posted **Jan 17, 2015, 12:30 AM**

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Originally Posted by CaptainKirk

View of City Hall from the Times building at King William and Hughson, (1886 - 1920)

The old Lister Block building at the corner at James Street.
(Hamilton Times Newpaper, 1859 to 1920)

FB Vintage Hamilton

Dr Awesomesauce · #**787** Posted **Jan 17, 2015, 1:11 AM**

^I've often walked down King William and imagined that clock tower rising before me...

ScreamingViking · #**788** Posted **Jan 17, 2015, 4:16 AM**

What a vista that would have made.

matt602 · #**789** Posted **Jan 17, 2015, 12:42 PM**

Oh my heart breaks

CaptainKirk · #**790** Posted **Jan 18, 2015, 9:12 PM**

Let's have fun with one.

For those of you that have not seen this on Facebook yet, where is this?

Dr Awesomesauce · #**791** Posted **Jan 19, 2015, 12:05 AM**

^Hunter St facing East.

The only clue is the old station. Otherwise, it's totally unrecognisable.

Good one.

The Gore · #**792** Posted **Jan 19, 2015, 12:23 AM**

Tough one - Ferguson Avenue?

CaptainKirk · #**793** Posted **Jan 19, 2015, 7:08 AM**

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Originally Posted by Dr Awesomesauce

^Hunter St facing East.

The only clue is the old station. Otherwise, it's totally unrecognisable.

Good one.

Yup! The description reads:

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...the TH&B station was prominant on the landscape; and that numerous watchtowers were stationed where various streets crossed the rail lines.

and then...

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Hunter Street East looking West towards James Street South, ca 1910. The old TH&B station is on the right. Original view may be from east of John south of tracks.

The old TH&B station being torn down after the construction of the new station in 1933. The old station would partly occupy lanes on Hunter Street if it was still around today.

Dr Awesomesauce · #**794** Posted **Jan 19, 2015, 12:19 PM**

^Wow! That's the first time I've seen the two standing side by side. Love the Union Jack.

ScreamingViking · #**795** Posted **Jan 20, 2015, 12:02 AM**

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Originally Posted by CaptainKirk

Wow, I never would have guessed this was looking west on Hunter. I knew there was an older station, but not that it was across the street from the existing one.

So weird seeing houses on on Hunter St. there. They must have been demolished when the tracks were elevated? (and I'm guessing the tracks were moved a bit further south)