Streetcars on Bay Street

[View of Bay Street Looking North Showing City Hall; Toronto, Ontario]

Vince sent me this link and pointed out that old postcards published by the Valentine family of companies in the early 20^th century, like the two in the Streetcar to Sunnyside post, could be rare, and posting images of those I have might be of some historical interest. In this one you can see the roofs of a couple TTC streetcars, but they are dwarfed by the buildings along Bay street. Date of publication is unknown.

Streetcar to Sunnyside

"Sunnyside", Toronto, Canada

Sunnyside was an amusement park in Toronto that operated from 1922 to 1955. You can read about its history at this Wikipedia post. I don't know the date of these two postcards, but Wikipedia states that the Bathing Pavilion - that red-roofed building to the left of centre - opened in June 1922, so I assume these cards were published sometime after that date.

[Both postcards were published by Valentine-Black, Co. Ltd of Toronto]

The second postcard shows that the Bathing Pavilion was an impressive structure, and would make for an excellent destination on a model streetcar layout.

Bathing Pavilion at Sunnyside Beach, Toronto, Ont.

Welshpool

Glyn Golfa, Llanfair Railway, Welshpool

One might think that a guy who lives in a place where a cold winter’s night can drop to -30C should have no complaints when summer days roll around that reach +34C like it did today, but I’m here to say that isn’t the case :-) I decided to hide out this evening with the air-conditioning and post a few more postcards.

The Rhallt, Welshpool

These are images of Welshpool in Wales. Dates are unknown.

Llanerchydol Hall, Welshpool

Wikipedia informs me that “The town is also the starting point of the Welshpool and Llanfair Light Railway, a narrow-gauge heritage railway popular with tourists, with its terminus station at Raven Square. The light railway once ran through the town to the Cambrian Line railway station, but today Raven Square, located on the western edge of the town, is the eastern terminus of the line.”

Red Bank, Welshpool

‘They’ tell me that today’s +34C felt like +41C once the humidity was factored in.

Summer doldrums

Not much happening model building wise this summer. Although, I decided to lift out the buildings from the urban area on the layout in preparation for a renewal in the fall. I've had Mels on my shelf for a long time and thought I'd revamp this area with it as the centrepiece. Nothing's final, but this step has helped kickstart my thinking. One of the buildings removed was the Deoralow, so I used this as a chance to take a photo of it outside in bright sunlight.

Electric tram on Coldharbour Lane?

Another item from the postcards in the family archive. Although the annotation is slightly torn, I think it says Coldharbour Lane. And that tram looks electrified.