Showing posts with label Shaw Street/Then and Now. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Shaw Street/Then and Now. Show all posts

Wednesday, January 26, 2011

Shaw Street/Then and Now

These houses on Shaw Street north of Bloor were already showing signs of trouble in 1933.
They were built on unstable land fill over a ravine that was formerly Garrison Creek. Their problems have only worsened over the years.

1933.
2010.
1933.
2010.
1933.
2010.
At the time of the original photos the city building inspectors chose to label them as "defective houses".

The original path of the creek.
Boys canoeing on the creek before it was buried.