The AH Neighbourhood

	Beverley Street 2004
This is the view looking North from Armour Heights.

	254 Caddy Street 1947 - beside the creek
Still unfinished, this house was built by Don and Betty Delong, the first on Caddy east of the creek. It is the grey house at the bottom of Beverly Street in the picture above.

	254 Caddy Street 1947 - 1930 Chev
The Caddy Street bridge, crossing the creek, would not be built until the next year. Since Beverly Street was just a mud path, a short cut could be taken through a Centre Street neighbour's yard.

	Beverly Street from 254 Caddy c1948
Only one house has been built on the corner of Beverly and McFarlane. Armour Heights construction began about 4 years later.

	Looking East up the Caddy Street hill c1948
Neither the road nor the other Caddy Street houses have been built. In the field to the right, turnips were grown for the pigs raised at the Ludgate mansion.

	Beverly Street looking south from 254 Caddy
By the summer of 1950 most of the new, wartime houses had been built. Families with young children lived in most of them.

	Anne Delong on front porch 254 Caddy St 1950 looking east
This photo shows the brand new houses on Caddy Street, looking in an easterly direction.

	Caddy Street looking East c1951
This is another photo taken from the driveway of 254 Caddy Street, Don Delong said that houses on the south were poorly built, while those on the north, by a different contractor, were well built.

	Betty Delong 1950 254 Caddy
The popular shortcut beside the Creek ever to Euclid Street still exists, to the left of this photo.

	245 Caddy front plans - a Halliday Home
This Halliday house was shipped in semi-assembled sections by truck from Hamilton

	254 Caddy Street - left view, side porch
Each section, labelled A, B and so on . . ., was held together by bolts fitted through the two by fours.

	254 Caddy Street - rear view
Typical of houses built after the War, it had two small bedrooms, hardwood floors and asbestos shingled siding.

	254 Caddy - right or East side
Although some assembly had been completed at the factory, considerable manual labour was needed to complete the job.

	254 Caddy Street - floor plan
Don Delong, the father, held down a full time job, worked overtime at his new trade, and spent every spare moment working on this house.

	254 Caddy Street - cross section
Some post war houses were built without basements to save money and time. Or, you could dig it out by hand later on.

	McFarlane House 1958
The original McFarlane family home was torn down for construction of the new Saint Luke's Church - photo by Jack Lee, just before he demolished the home.

	Ashburnham's First Brick Building 1856
This building stood on the northwest corner of Hunter Street (then Elizabeth Street) and Driscoll Terrace.

	Site of Ashburnham's First Brick Building
Quaker Oats Co. offices have now been built on this site.

	Ashburnham's First Brick Building Cairn
The window or ventilation grate is from the original building.

	Ashburnham's First Brick Building Plaque

	Inverlea_Park_swimming_60s_by_Norman_Sanderson
This supervised beach was maintained by the Peterborough Recreation Department. Children were taught to swim at this location, and at the Lions Club Pool south of the Hunter Street Bridge.

	Inverlea or Parkhill Rd bridge c 1960

	Inverlea or Parkhill Rd bridge 2004

	Inverlea or Parkhill Rd bridge c 1960

	1959 evening concert starts Nichols Oval
At dusk, after the musical segment of the Sunday evening performance, black and white movies were projects onto the back wall. Charlie Chaplin and The Keystone Kops were favoured because they did not have a sound track. The 16 millimetre projector's speaker was not powerful enough for outdoor presentations.

	Rotary Park when it was a Quaker owned field
Don and Stu Robertson in Quaker field end of Dufferin St c1958. Since this time most of the embankments beside the railway lines have been levelled for conversion to Rotary Park. In the 50s and 60s, children played war games or hide and seek. One boy in the neighbourhood discovered a dead body near the footbridge on his return from an early morning hockey practice. The man had died of natural causes.

	Nicholls Oval Memorial Gates 1961
These gates were the main entrance to the Park. Traffic conjestion has forced the closure of these imposing gates.

	Trafalger Cottage Demolished 1959
The home of Rev. Vincent Clementi, later used as a home for retarded children, contained a set of public washrooms. After the new washrooms were built, this 1870s house was demolished. An old drawing shows its beautiful gardens and verandas, at the time Reverend Clementi live there. Vandalism had caused extensive damage long before the City decided to destroy the house.

	Rotary Park view of Inverlea Bridge April 1961
Evidence of weed control by burning the dead grass can be seen. Today, this area, next to the river bank path, is completly overgrown - see next slide.

	Quaker field now Rotary Park looking north to Inverlea April 2004
The view of Inverlea Bridge is completely obscured by overgrowth, compared to the same view taken in 1961 above. However, the same old dead tree can be seen amidst the new growth.

	Quaker Dam and Power House from below c1963
During the summer, when water flow diminished, it was common to see local children swimming in this area.

	Quaker Dam Peterborough c1963
Trains and people shared this walkway before the current fencing was erected. The nearby footbridge was not constructed until 1941. It was rebuilt recently.

	Quaker Dam end of London St Jan 1961

	Quaker Dam end of London St April 2004

	Peterborough Light and Power Co in Hazlitts Shingle Mill near east bank current Quaker Dam 1884
This building was located on the East City side of the current dam - the end of Hazlett Street in those days. A huge pile of sawdust, from making cedar shingles, remained on the shoreline until the late 60s. The first electricity in Peterborough was generated from this building in 1884.

	Dixons Saw Mill foot of London St
Notice Armour Hill in the distant far right.

	Otonabee River from Quaker Dam c1963
Once again, notice Armour Hill in the distance.

	Otonabee River below Quaker Dam c1963