London, Ontario: Blackfriars
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- čas přidán 8. 06. 2016
- Published on Apr 29, 2016
Rambles in the Rustbelt is a series of audio explorations celebrating heritage architecture around the great lakes region. In this episode, Benjamin A. Vazquez leads us on a tour of London, Ontario's Blackfriars neighbourhood. Join us for this walk and explore the area.
Written and narrated by: Benjamin A. Vazquez
Recorded and edited by: Melissa Parrott
Music by: Jeremy Gallagher
Sources:
'The South & the West' - John H. Lutman
'100 Fascinating Londoners'
Michael Baker & Hilary Bates Neary
'Victorian Architecture in London
& Southwestern Ontario'
Nancy Z. Tausky & Lynne D. DiStefano
'Heritage Highlights
of the Geranium Heritage House Tours'
'London: From Site to City'
Nancy Z. Tausky & Louis Taylor
'Brackets & Bargeboards'
'Biographical Dictionary of Architects in Canada'
'Petersville - Blackfriars Promenade'
Photo Credits:
Vintage London Ontario
Ebay
Labatt Archives
UWO Archives
August Donnelly
London Public Library
Fred Weyerman
Historypin
Parks Canada
The South & the West
Diocese of Huron Archives
Your videos are excellent! Thanks for sharing this with us. Very interesting and educational, I wish there were more!
I had family that lived on 88 Albion Street, and they were in that residence during the 1938 Flood. Luckily the house survived and is a very beautiful piece of property.
nice tour ,, I use to live on the sharp bend on wharncliff , 2 blocks away from the blackfriers bridge
Nice. It's a lovely part of the city. I have a couple of friends who live there, and our fearless video editor used to live in the neighbourhood until a couple of years ago.
can you ,, or have you done a walk about St Thomas , pinafore park , area , and what use to be there ,, chessie system round house and turn table , the train ride in the back of the park , the deer enclosure thru the ravines , and across where the old rail lines went from there to the old caso station ? if so can you add a link
I've done two walks in St. Thomas, one downtown and the other in Millersburg. You can find them in the back-catalogue (click "Rambles in the Rust Belt" below the video, then click on "videos"). I'd be hesitant to do a video on the Pinafore Park area, though. There isn't enough in a concentrated enough area to make sense as a walking tour. Indeed, I've been running into a lot of these cases - individual buildings I want to talk about which are too far from other places I want to talk about to justify a fifteen-minute video. Still thinking about how to address them.