Photography
I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t disappointed when my search of this old place came up empty handed.
I thought I hit the jackpot when I started looking for history on this one. Yet it turns out that what I found contradicted itself. So, I’m going to consider this one another one that left me empty handed.
But, it was not all for nothing. While trying to make sense of the stories, I found another old abandonded house that I have put on my to do list this coming summer.
T. W. arrived in Canada from Arthur, Ontario in 1885. He settled on this property and in 1907 married Jennie. Together they had 10 children, all of 1 which was born on this farm. And sadly, two of those children there stillborn.
In 1942 T. W. sold the farm to his nephew and he and his bride moved to town. He passed away in 1951 at the young age of 74.
Not a great photo given that it was taken from the road with my 300mm but you can’t pass up shot of an old, abandoned house.
The other night while hunting for houses, we came across this old house from many moons ago. Easily shot from the road, we stopped for a couple shots to add to our list of houses photographed. I wish I had kept better stats since the start of this hobby.
This is the house where I stepped on the board suspended over a hole. I was content on the road. I had been here many years ago and had investigated inside during that visit.
The sun was starting to set which was giving off that golden hour glow which I love.
I have a new system for keeping track of houses I want to shoot and houses I have shot. Its a work in progress and it appears to be a lot simpiler than the big old binder that Christian teases me about. I will hold on to the binder because when I search for the history, I do use the original page to record notes and the name of the blog post, date and contact information for permission.
Remember that trip I took to the old abandoned town on New Years Eve when I almost turned around and abandoned mission? The one I’ve been posting about for the last week? How many finds am I up to now? Ya, I’ve lost track too.
Well this is one that I could access from the road so I got it on the way back home as the sun was setting and the fog was lifting.
As I was playing around with different lenses and angles I thought, this house looks familiar. Well sure enough, when I got home, it was a house that I had been trying to find in the area. It wasn’t really in the area that the original poster said it was but regardless I found it. As I did not have permission to enter the property and I do not have an RM map for this area, I cannot provide a history of the property.
Mr., born in Crewkerne, Somerset, England in 1884 came to Canada in 1902 and worked at Pilot Mound. In 1908 he moved to Glenboro but went back to England when the war started and as enlisted in the Royal Artillery for 5 years. While there he met and married his wife. They returned to Canada from Liverpool with their two children on March 27, 1925 upon the S.S. Montclair.
I can’t say for certain that they built this home but research tells me that after the sale of this property, it was mostly used as farm land and not a homstead.
Mr. & Mrs. & their children were active in their community and were members of the local Church of England.
The family fondly remembers Christmas Concert and picnics held by their school.
Their son worked for different local farmers in the area but when his father was no longer able to farm the homstead, he took over the farm in 1947.
The farm is now home to a new owners and his herd of cows.
On the property, there remains a lot of the old equipment, much of it overtaken by trees and barely visable.
Mr. died in 1984 at 100 years of age.
CRUMBLING MEMORIES 