HAMILTON Part XXXIX: Greensville and Waterdown

[flar]

Greensville and Waterdown



Looking back to Hamilton from Dundas Peak


Looking down on Dundas (I used to live down there). I don't know the guy in the photo, he was just there


Now onto Greensville, a village on the mountain above Dundas. Greensville has a mixture of old and modern housing, including
many old stone houses















Looking into the Dundas Valley.


There are many large estates in Greensville. I think the guy who lives here is a billionaire (I'm not kidding)


Unfortunately the wealthy often live on private roads so I can't always photograph their mansions. You'll have to trust me, there
are some spectacular homes up here.








Webster's Falls, one of over 80 waterfalls within Hamilton's city limits.


The ruins of the Darnley Grist Mill at Crooks Hollow, built in 1811








Fall colours on the Niagara Escarpment. The Niagara Escarpment is a World Biosphere Reserve and this particular part of it
is protected by the Hamilton Conservation Authority. There are many conservation areas plus the Royal Botanical Gardens
protecting this area's natural beauty.






The Spencer Gorge


Tew's Falls, a little dry because it hasn't rained much lately. This waterfall
created the gorge above.


King Street winds up the mountain from Dundas with the Skyway bridge, Hamilton Harbour and Lake Ontario in the background






King Street and the railroad as seen from Dundas Peak, if you travel on VIA
rail between Windsor and Toronto via Aldershot you take these tracks


A little reminder that we are in suburbia



Onward to Waterdown, one of three significant old towns on the west side of Hamilton (the others are Dundas and Ancaster).












Grindstone Creek flows through Waterdown






















I looked all over for a good view of the Hamilton or Burlington skylines, but all the good views were on private property. Here is
a nice view of Hamilton's steel industry
















Smokey Hollow


















Ontario Gothic
_
_











One more blast of fall colour






Another reminder that we are in suburbia. Waterdown is growing fast with over 6500 new homes and a large big box power
centre under construction.


A look through my windshield down Highway 6 towards Hamilton. The road is being converted to a freeway.

[Mustapha]

Great camera effect with the flowing water. Never knew this area right next door to Toronto was so refined.

[Long Island Mike]

Flar: Good pics of Hamilton's Greensville and Waterdown areas!

There are many good old sturdy brick and stone houses there-too many to single out some over others.
You captured great Fall foliage-especially on the Niagara Escarpment.
Places like Webster Falls look really inviting!
It is Suburbia also-even those McMansions look OK to me for some reason...

Ontario Route 6 is the main access highway there-as you note being expanded to a expressway to accomodate more auto traffic-what public transit options serve that area if you know?

Thanks for your reply in advance - Long Island Mike

[flar]

^^HSR just started running buses up to Waterdown within the last year or so. I think the route goes to the Aldershot GO station and then into Hamilton.

Greensville is just on the escarpment above Dundas, so people there could technically walk or bike to catch a bus in Dundas, but I don't think many do.

[adma]

If Ontario operated like Europe, Dundas-Cambridge would be a regular bus run...

[jaborandi]

Flar: Good pics of Hamilton's Greensville and Waterdown areas!

There are many good old sturdy brick and stone houses there-too many to single out some over others.
You captured great Fall foliage-especially on the Niagara Escarpment.
Places like Webster Falls look really inviting!
It is Suburbia also-even those McMansions look OK to me for some reason...

Ontario Route 6 is the main access highway there-as you note being expanded to a expressway to accomodate more auto traffic-what public transit options serve that area if you know?

Thanks for your reply in advance - Long Island Mike

There used to be about half a dozen Canada Coach Lines buses each day from Guelph to Hamilton. I used to catch it in front of the old Supertest gas station where the new overpass over Highway 6 is now.

Great pix flar of an area I used to know very well - shame I didn't appreciate the architecture at the time.

[androiduk]

Great tour as usual flar. Waterdown looks like the pleasant type of place I'd like to move to when I'm old and grey