Shaw street – a few steps south of College street – bridged a ravine early this century. Within that ravine was Sully crescent – it ran up and ended under the bridge. Today, the ravine has been long filled in and it and the bridge are gone.
Before the ravine was filled, the Sully houses were demolished. One may suppose the foundations are still there. A section of Sully – on higher ground to the east of the buried section - still exists. The house numbers in the remaining section of Sully start at #3 and end at #12 – one of the old pictures identifies a demolished house as #38 - phantom evidence of what was.
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| Sully looking west from Crawford. The bridge is Shaw. |
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| 2008 |
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| Taken from approx. the top of the bridge in the old photo. The four old houses in a row still stand sentinel. |
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| Sully looking ENE. Shaw street is behind the photographer. Crawford street is out of the frame; up the hill to the right. The year is 1907 and utility poles are here now. Note the fire hydrant and adjacent tree in centre right of the first picture in this series: in this picture the tree has matured in the intervening six years. |
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| Shaw looking N towards College |
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| Sully looking NW. The bridge is gone, replaced by an embankment that will grow to fill the rest of this ravine. |
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| The mansard roofed house with two dormers and its neighbour on the right is still there on Shaw. The 'Kalahambra (sic) Hall' on College street still stands. Its now The Revival club. |
Bonus shot: A final goodbye to our buried street. The east wall of the Metro store makes a modern picture impossible here.
Original post
here.
An article in Spacing about the same area
here.
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