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The Bradford Hockey Club from the 1914-1915 year.
Front Row (l-r): D. Riddell, Jay Germaine, Frank Hammell
Back row (l-r): Bert Chester, Bruce McKay, Jim Curry, Mac McLean, Fred Collings

Bradford, the Ontario Junior Lacrosse Champions, 1902.
Back Row, left to right: W.L. Campbell, W. Ward, E. Jackson, Geo. Bell, G.G. Green, W. Turner, J. Curry, N. Strong.
Middle Row: Roy Hill, H. Heffernan, R. Manning, Dr. L.H. Campbell, Geo. Stewart, N. Stibbs.
Front Row: H. Wilkinson, Jas. Webb, Dave Ellerby, Fred Coombs, J. Farrell, R. McKinstry, H. Graham.

Bradford won the same championship title in 1904 and 1905.

From the Yesterday section of the Bradford Witness:
"Mrs. Earl Bowles submitted this week's photo of the Bradford Methodist Church taken before the First World War. The building still occupies a prominent spot in the town just north of the post office on Barrie Street and has since become the Bradford United Church. The trees which used to shade the street are long gone, but many of the older house along that street, including the church, are in excellent condition."

The Bradford Model School pictured was constructed in 1878 to replace a previous building destroyed by fire.
Mr. Frank Wood was the first principal in 1878.
It was established by Simcoe County Council for the training of teachers, and by 1907, 496 teachers were trained there.
Upon the discontinuance of Model training in Ontario, the building continued to be Bradford Public School until the new Bradford Public School was erected in 1951. The Model School was located east of the present school.
It consisted of three rooms downstairs, and two large ones upstairs. It was made of brick, and was heated by two coal furnaces.

This photo was taken soon after the post office was built.

Top row (from the left): Edith Morton, Irene Brown, Muriel Houghton, Rita McLean, Evelyn Lang, Mr. Jones, Harvey Jeffrey, Jack Armstrong, George Stoddard, Jack Grey, James Bateman.
Second row: Jean Robinson, Norma Walker, Lena Maurino, Helen Kingsley, Helen Archibald, Beth Maddil, Fanny Edney, Florence O'Neil, John Kneeshaw, Franklyn Edney, Eric Adair.
Third row: Howard Henbest, Gordon Bantam, George Lang, Gilbert Wilson, Arthur Hand, Frank Reynolds, Ernest James, Kenneth Wood, John Batchelor, Milton Hambly.
Bottom row: Edward Dunn, Lesson Adams, Norman Addley, Harry Day, Billy Hartman, Billy McWilliam, Bruce Cudmore, Allan ?.

Bradford Public School, Teacher: Mr. Atkinson
Front Row: Elenor Colling, Jean Robinson, Harold, Lewis Walton, Belfry, Gordon Ogilive, Jim Church, James Elwood, Cavallo, Keith Kilkenny
Middle Row: Donald Wilson, Fred Nesbitt, Irwin McLean, Margaret, Hilda Corrigan, Wilbert Curry, Beatrice Younger*, Lorne West, Ken Sein, Charles Nesbitt
Back Row: Marion Edney, Mildred Root, Cathy Williamson, Mary Webb, Helen Metcalf, Georgina Depew, Gwendoline Ward, Constance Ward, May Park, Marion Church, Margorie Sein

From the Yesterday section of the Bradford Witness:
This is a photo of the Bradford United Church Choir taken on the front steps of the church on Barrie Street. Mrs. Aileen Gardner, of RR 1, Gilford, tells us it was taken around 1915.
Back Row, from left: Tom Batchelor, Norm Waldruff, George Green, Vida Broughton, Eldon Waldruff, Norman Hand, Les Ellerby. Middle Row: Edith (Neilly) Harvey, Unknown Walker, Unknown, Lettie Williams, Unknown, Lorenzo Harvey. Front Row: Mrs. Jim Brydon, Unknown, Mrs. G. Green, Unknown, Beatrice Waldruff, Nellie Broughton, Emilie Gardner.

Breaking up land (3000 acres) on the Colbar Marsh north Bradford in the New Marsh around 1950 with a one-furrow plow. Lou Neilly (a World War II fighter pilot from Gilford) is driving the tractor and Jack Armstrong is on the plow.