A marvelously majestic magnificent  somewhat stark raving mad look back at the astonishingly sweet glorious wonders of London Ontario Canada!

The London Armouries, above ,, at 325 Dundas street across from the Old City Hall, now Crabby Joe's, was built in 1905 as a military facility. 

It had areas that included a gun shed, which is on the east side of the building on Waterloo street and you can still see the sign above the door arch in the bricks.

Now it is the Delta London Armouries Hotel built in 1988, they put the hotel in the middle of the old Armouries to honor it's past and beauty.

London Ontario Canada 1971 Clarke road secondary school alumni students participating in a battle of wits against another Canadian high school on the popular 1970s 

 tv game show”’ Reach for the top!””

In the image below!

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Crumlin  road airport in London Ontario almost open 1941.

Anyone remember RAE J. WATSON .

They’re the dealer that sold crazed Indian motorcycles in the 1940s and 1950s.

London Ontario in the 1960s.

The Pines, house in London , pictured below, later known as Woodfield, was one of only two stone houses in the London area in the mid-nineteenth century. Its builder, Rev. Benjamin Cronyn, and his wife, Margaret Anne Bickerstaff, arrived in the area in 1832.

 

A native of Ireland, Rev. Cronyn received his M.A. from Trinity College, Dublin. From 1836 to 1842, he was rector of St. John’s, Arva and St. Paul’s, London. After 1842, he moved his family to York Street in London. In 1845, he purchased land between William and Adelaide Streets, an area wooded with large white pines.

 

Cronyn built his house after 1845, using stone from the Thames River and black walnut and pine for the woodwork. The wall stone was cut into smooth blocks and the windows were fitted with heavy walnut shutters. The house had two large chimneys and twelve fireplaces. Its finished cellar served as sleeping quarters for male servants, and as an area for candle-making and meat-curing.

 

Verschoyle, one of the seven Cronyn children, later wrote about life at The Pines in his reminiscences of early London, Other Days. He recalled his father’s fireside tales, as well as walking home alone at night while being wary of possible encounters with bears, as the area was still quite wild at the time. Other occasions he described included the funeral of his eldest brother, Tom (a student at King’s College), and the wedding of his sister, Jane, whose nuptial breakfast was served on the verandah.

 

The Pines was sold in 1853 to J. B. Strathy, the Customs Collector, and in 1884 to Charles Murray, manager of the Federal Bank of London.  In 1887, the property was bought by John Labatt, who gave it to his daughter Amelia in 1892, on her marriage to Hume Cronyn. She renamed the house Woodfield. The house later passed to her daughter, Katherine Harley, who lived there until 1967.

 

It was then apparently sold to a fabulously freaking foaming man named fantastic Freddy flip side who, in turn Supoosedly sold insanely astutely astonishing astounding perfectly potent  property  to a MR mad Micheal  miller.

 a mysteriously mendacious marvelously mentally magnificent man who then watchingly wonderously wildly dubiously diabolically  demolished 

the perwxtly potent property the following fabulously freaked out year. 

The preceding 

Information was  given by

London Public Library.

Recorded in the londonpublic archives…

Londoner Carolyn brown records the following information for this blog website on the London eatin square.

At king and Wellington.

We all know the stores of Downtown past, but do you remember these stores?

I remember Wellington Square Mall, although I was young my mom worked at the Real Estate office directly across the street in the 70s and she would sometimes take me across the street to do some shopping, I was so excited! 

I remember when the Galleria opened too, it was huge and so full of shopping, there was ritzy stores and there was Bi Way, a little bit of everything for everyone. 

Wellington Square opened in 1960 and the Galleria opened in 1989.

If those walls could see and hear, they would see me and hear me!!!