244 Brock Street South, Sawdon's (Whitby) Ltd., Merryweather Steam Fire Engine, March 26, 1934
- Publication
- Toronto Daily Star, March 1934, Suburban Page
Description
- Creator
- Robert Holden, Photographer
- Media Type
- Image
- Item Types
- Photographs
- Negatives
- Description
- A black and white negative of a photograph of John Sawdon driving the Merryweather on Brock Street. This photograph looks west along Dunlop Street. There is a sign on the steam fire engine that reads: "50 years old". The building at right is Sawdon's Fuels located at 244 Brock Street South.
- Notes
- The Merryweather Steam Fire Engine, manufactured in England, served the Town of Whitby from November 1872 to 1926 when it was replaced by two motorized fire trucks. The engine saved downtown Oshawa from destruction by fire on the night of December 8, 1872. In 1934 the Town of Whitby gave the fire engine to the York Pioneer and Historical Society in Toronto and it was returned to the Town of Whitby in 2005. In 2010, a proposal was brought to the Town of Whitby Operations Committee that called for the relocation of the engine to enable the library to better use their lobby space. Another proposal was brought forward in March of 2014 by Eva Reti, a library board member, to relocate the engine. The Operations Committee approved the relocation in June of 2014. The engine is located in a display area adjacent to the main lobby of the Centennial Building, in Whitby, Ontario as on May 2022.
(McGary, Harold. "The Whitby Merryweather Steamer." The York Pioneer 100 (2005):3-13.
(Town of Whitby. (2014, June, 30) Operation Committee Minutes. Whitby Archives, Whitby, ON.)
(Town of Whitby. (2014, June, 23). Recommendation Report. Whitby Archives, Whitby, ON)
The original buidling at 244 Brock Street South was demolished September 13, 2016. - Date of Original
- March 1934
- Dimensions
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Width: 6 cm
Height: 6 cm
- Subject(s)
- Local identifier
- 08-005-003
- Collection
- Whitby Online Historic Images Collection
- Language of Item
- English
- Geographic Coverage
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Ontario, Canada
Latitude: 43.8777266642315 Longitude: -78.9414024353027
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- Donor
- Owner of original: Robert Holden, 63 King Street East, Oshawa
- Copyright Statement
- Public domain: Copyright has expired according to Canadian copyright law. No restrictions on use.
- Recommended Citation
- 244 Brock Street South, Sawdon's (Whitby) Ltd., Merryweather Steam Fire Engine, March 26, 1934, Robert Holden. Whitby Archives 08-005-003.
- Reproduction Notes
- Scanned from a copy negative.
- Contact
- Whitby Public LibraryEmail:archives@whitbylibrary.ca
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