An update to Monday’s post, Erik S. sent along a few photos from the demolition for us. Also an update the confirmed date of construction was 1923, so until it recently closed it was the oldest area fire hall.
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Sad that the old school is coming down. Quite wasteful. But gotta say the new one looks like it is going to be beautiful.
Geezz, I looked at that powerpoint Tim pointed out and all I gotta say is, yikes!
Although some of it looks cool, the first few pictures look like a prison, the next pictures look like furniture from the 1980s trying to be modern. The next ones looks like university/college photos...it's just a random mix mash of anything they thought looked 'cool.'
And they are seriously tearing down the entire high school to build this one?
There isn't land anywhere else? They cannot incorporate the old one into the new one?
Shameful.
@JeffS: As I recall, the firehall did sustain some damage in the February 1980 explosion, including twisting of the doors, which made it difficult to get the trucks and equipment out.
The same block of buildings destroyed in the 1980 explosion had been heavily damaged twice before: Once when the Aberdeen hotel burnt down in 1974 and once in 1907 when a train carrying nitroglycerine exploded at the railway terminal. (Thanks due to Evelyn Couch Walker's interesting "Three Rs of Essex" history of the town for the exact years.)
And I too can't believe they're demolishing the old secondary school. Another landmark building gone.
It's alright, after they demolish everything historical we can always visit the cottam pond if we want some local history. But they will probably fill it in to make a stucco factory on the lands for all we know.