Mr. and Mrs. Leonard and Maria "Tippy" Bell. They were the parents of James, Arthur, Owen, John, Bessie, Jessie, Norma and Dorothy.

Back Row, from left to right: Mary Edith Coulter, Charlie Mattenley, Annie Rothwell, Charlie Deering, Maggie McLeod, Ed Rothwell, Cassie Neilly. Front Row: Isabelle Neilly, Ida Rothwell, Bertha Neilly, Paul West, Rebie Rothwell, Joe Babbs.

Back Row (l-r): Mildred Mattenley, Lois Booth, Margaret Nesbitt, Luella Roberts, Miss I. Foerter, Libbie Neilly, Annie Breen, Virgie Bell, Louisa Pike. Middle Row (l-r): Kathleen Elain, Olive Steers, Beatrice Irwin, Hazel Archer, ? Burton, Harvey Coulter, Leo Gibbons, Jimmie Nesbitt, Leonard Gibbons. Front Row (l-r): Kathleen Neilly, Marjorie Canning, Norma Mattenley, Etta Neilly, George Nesbitt, Douglas Booth, Earl Archer, Ben Steers, Norman Plant. Front: Mary Graham, John Doolittle.

Inside the Gilford station.

Jerry Roberts plays the piano and Harold Bell is on the violin while Gladys Bell and her partner dance on.

Signing the register following their Saturday wedding in Ebenezer United Church are Mr. and Mrs. Allan Wesley Brown. The bride is the former Betty Yvonne Kneeshaw, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Kneeshaw of Gilford, and her husband is the son of Mr. and Mrs. C.W. Brown of Dalston. After a wedding trip to the United States and EAstern Ontario, the couple will be making their home at Dalston.

The Gilford hotel believed to have been owned by Bell.

Inside the Gilford station showing desk in front of window.

The former Glassford Hotel in Gilford. Built in 1853, it operated as a hotel until the late 1880s. Leonard and Maria Bell bought the house in 1925, and it became the home of their son and daughter-in-law Owen and Helen in 1942.

S.S. #16, Gilford Public School, 1937. Margaret Canning was the teacher. Back Row, left to right: Walter Gravestone, Jim McDonnell, Gerard Gibbons, Margaret Canning (teacher), Winnifred Neilly, Eileen Kneeshaw, Helen Porritt, Jane Bailey. Middle Row: Dorothy Bell, Marion Jackson, Joyce McDonnell, Marjorie Horsley, Betty Bedford, Norma Bell, Lillian Courtney, Ethel Todd. Front Row: Alan McDonnell, Harry Jackson, Floyd McDonnell, Sam Neilly, Bill Neilly. Note on back of photograph reads: "Frank and I were absent from this picture as we were sick with the chicken pox."