Soho Community Association Archives April 2010

 Soho Community Association

2010 04 21 Minutes

Soho Celebrates Black History Month

SoHo House Signs

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Soda water, soda water

Ginger ale and pop

Aberdeen, Aberdeen

Always on the top!

In February 1883, a new, four-room

school opened on Grey Street –

although the front door of the school

actually faced Hamilton Road. This

school replaced an earlier public

school on Colborne Street. Continue

reading →

At 2 a.m. on May 25, 1905, one of London’s most spectacular fires lit up the

skies of downtown London. That fire was at Dyment-Baker Lumber, on the

northeast corner of Bathurst and Wellington Streets. Before the fire was

contained, some 10 hours later, it also damaged much of the London

Machine Tool Company; lumber at the nearby Tambling and Jones yard,

and six Michigan Central Railroad freight cars. Three of those cars were

filled with agricultural implements valued at several thousand dollars.

Sadly, sparks from the fire also destroyed a frame house at 318 York Street.

Neighbors did manage to rescue the contents before the home was

completely gutted by the fire. Continue reading →

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