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This article first appeared in the "Echoes from the Past" column of the The Low Down to Hull and Back News.
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Recycling Along Highway 105
HORSESHOE RESTAURANT
Do you remember the old Horseshoe Restaurant now recycled as a smokehouse (Boucanerie Chelsea)? The nearby sand and gravel pit became the last resting place, in the1950s of Diamond Jeness, the noted Indian expert and author when he drove his car off the highway into it in thick fog. There was no guardrail then. Although bounced about and bruised Jeness managed to crawl up the steep bank on his hands and knees making his way painfully to the restaurant. Later I saw Jeness arrive home on a stretcher.
THE GOLF COURSE & SWIMMING POOLS
The setting up of a golf links and a pair of swim pools was once of the enterprises of Carson Cross almost half a century ago. It is a guess that the installation of the golf course sparked the change of name from Summerlea to Gleneagle, after the Scottish links.
Oh yes, when you'd had your game, followed by a refreshing swim you could wander across the highway for a spot of tea and a crumpet at the nearby tearoom.
Later the whole operation was recycled into building lots. One of the pools became the basement of a new house, the other was filled in and became a garden. The tearoom became a residence.
KIRK'S FERRY POST OFFICE, ETC.
The post office at Kirk's Ferry had been in the Reid family for nearly a hundred years. When I first remember the situation, Ernest Reid and his wife Sarah (Siiri Luukonen from Finalnd) kept the post office, operated the telephone switchboard and also the general store -- recall the old phones with a crank to twist and a button to press, one needed two hands.
Now the post office is closed and Ma Bell looks after her own switching and the general store has been recycled as a dépanneur.
MACINTYRE'S REAL ESTATE
Not long ago Frank Macintyre moved his real estate business, founded by his father Col D.E. Macintyre, from the site just north of Larrimac to what had been a restaurant at Farm Point.
Two recycles are involved in this shift, a former Real Estate office to a residence and a restaurant to a business office.
RECYLCING IN WAKEFIELD
In our next "Echos Column" we shall explore in Wakefield for additional "recycles".