Friday, February 13, 2026

Beacon Hill Timeline

 

I sometimes think that one of my most useful contributions to history would be to produce a Beacon Hill timeline. So many old photographs of Halifax feature Beacon Hill as an ever-present dramatic backdrop, and the changing degree of vegetation on the hill could provide a useful timestamp in dating such photos. After consulting the beta version of my timeline, I suspect I must have taken this photograph in the late 1980s.

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1 comment:

  1. Julia9:09 PM

    We lived just above there then, in Boothtown, 1986-9, and Crossleys were still processing a bit of shoddy down at the bottom as you approached the red bridge.

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