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Originally Posted by SignalHillHiker
I took a few of some of the old photographs hanging at the Celtic Hearth on Water Street yesterday.
A great one from 1870:
Immediately after the Great Fire of 1892. I wish I'd had my real camera. The actual picture is of a high enough quality that you can actually tell the woman in this carriage is hot AND that she has soot on her clothes.
And a panorama of the city, immediately after the fire:
One of the many buildings from that era that are no longer with us: |
Who the hell changed the way the Harbour Front was laid out......if they had left it like that it would be so much easier to re-develop and densify.