Miscellany Toronto Photographs: Then and Now

[Goldie]

Yes, it could be Plains Rd. School.
Didn't know about Dief's attendance, but Goldie also attended -- only for "manual training" classes in grade 8.

 

[Moonflake]

The following house was built with reclaimed brick from said school: http://urbantoronto.ca/forum/threads/unique-houses-in-toronto.7591/page-17

 

[Goldie]

Speaking of Plains Rd. School, here's a nice group portrait from 1920:

 

[W. K. Lis]

Speaking of Plains Rd. School, here's a nice group portrait from 1920:

View attachment 93373

No mention of maximum class sizes or teachers' assistants back then.

 

[Goldie]

258 Queensdsale c.1925 Wright family -- note water pump in side-yard

Photo by Google:
https://www.google.com/maps/place/2...m2!3m1!1s0x89d4cc6852d7aef9:0xa884f8e3a28bcf3

 

[donoreo]

The following house was built with reclaimed brick from said school: http://urbantoronto.ca/forum/threads/unique-houses-in-toronto.7591/page-17

I used to drive past that house all the time. I did not realize it was reclaimed brick or that old.

 

[Goldie]

Harbour Front c.1930

Google view:
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Q...2!3m1!1s0x882b3529a3ba5f8b:0x44ed3f1b9f894e64

 

[Mikeinablizzard]

Good to see a 1950s photo of good old Rathbone & Company. They were really old school and did a fine line in military tailoring - I had my mess kit made there when commissioned into the Militia in the late 1970s. In fact tomorrow I will be wearing my old First Hussars tie to an Army function here in England and on the back of it is a label on which is embroidered 'Rathbone & Company Since 1885, 92 Yonge St Toronto'. We'll not see their like in Canada again, plus these military tailors are disappearing quickly in England as well. Some call it progress, I call it a shame.

 

[Koolgreen]

Courtesy Jim Lister
EGH and RH McGregor

 

[Koolgreen]

Courtesy Jim Lister
Original Plains Rd School

 

[Goldie]

View attachment 94231

Courtesy Jim Lister
EGH and RH McGregor

EXCELLENT!
My public school (grade 2-8 ---1942 to 1948), R.H.McGregor, and my first child was born in the East General Hospital.
What's the date of that photo?

 

[Koolgreen]

Not sure, found it at the east York then and now facebook.....

https://www.facebook.com/East-York-Then-and-Now-340651007038/

 

[Koolgreen]

EXCELLENT!
My public school (grade 2-8 ---1942 to 1948), R.H.McGregor, and my first child was born in the East General Hospital.
What's the date of that photo?

Goldie....I still have faint memories of RH in the late sixties. But what was that building to the south of the school?
Was that an admin bldg. for EGH???

 

[Goldie]

Sorry, Koolgreen. I can't answer.
My memory fails me as to the structure of the old buildings.
I thought, upon seeing the old photo, that all that was school.
Sometime after I left the neighbourhood, those buildings were demolished and a new school was built along the Mortimer side of the property.
The current building appears to be a day care, medical clinic as well as public school.

 

[Goldie]

Google street view:
https://www.google.com/maps/place/5...2!3m1!1s0x882b34c1f3d9ed79:0x3aeea7174437bfdc