The de Peuter Building... Long history, new focus for building on Holland St. West
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Article on the upgrades to the dePeuter building at 113 Holland St W., operating a decorating business.
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Bak's Market
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View of 136 Holland Street Plaza, which includes the Fish & Chips store and the Little Caesar's plaza
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View of The Country Store in the early 1990s.
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The Bradford 5c to $1 store prior to the 1959 fire on Holland Street W. which damaged the building.
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The Country Store and Marshland
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View of The Country Store and residences backing onto the Holland Marsh in the early 1990s.
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Photograph of the remains of the Thompson's Hardware business sign. See Related Descriptions to see the business in the early 1900s.
Looking Back Over the Century - Fire of 1871 and Holland Street
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The Bradford Witness decided to release a series of articles from local townspeople on the history of certain events in Bradford and West Gwillimbury's time. This week, the Fire of May 25, 1871, and the businesses which rebuilt on Holland Street after the fire, is the topic.
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The article accompanying this photograph gives a quick history of B.B. "Ben" Collings' life and business. By this point, his furniture and undertaking business was only four years old (starting in 1902) and the storefront is shown in the photograph, located on the south-west corner of Holland and Drury Streets. The post office is opposite. It was said in the showroom, there would "be found some of the nicest furniture one could wish to place in his home."
Starting in 1897, Ben spent four years studying the mattress making trade in Toronto.
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The article accompanying this photograph gives a quick history of Bemrose Co. General Store, owned by the Bemrose brothers John and James. Their father, John, was a contractor and was well known in the town, a reputation which was passed down to the brothers. This store in the photograph was run by James Bemrose alone after his return to Bradford in 1901 in the former store of J.S. Boddy, and was in the same block as the Edmanson businesses on Holland Street (near 71 Holland St. East).
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