The old steam plant was demolished before Sir John Franklin Community Centre was re-located from Wellington Crescent in 1966. A soccer field took its place and a Winnipeg Fire Department firehall. The famous bus loop of River Heights also occupies that former land.
Today, the old fire hall is a daycare centre as the new fire hall is a few blocks down on Taylor Avenue now.
The heat for River Heights today comes from natural gas although my family home to this day still has the remainders of a coal room and chute to the basement.
4 comments:
Do you ever proof read or spell check your blog before you post it?
This is the first line of your most recent article:
"River Heights used to be supplies with steam heat from a plant at Lindsay and Grosvenor Avenue."
Here is the last line:
"The heat for River Heights today comes from natural gas although my family home to this day still have the remainders of a coal room and chute to the basement."
It should read "still HAS the remainders..."
Thank you. I thought I'd saved the post to check over the next day. Generally, I have several posts being worked on at the same time, This one was accidentally sent off before it was done.
Thanks for your corrections.
So glad to read about the old steam plant on Lindsay. As an abandoned building in the 60’s it was left unprotected. Health and safety less of an issue in those days, I guess. So as a child of around 8 or 9 I went in to it exploring it - loving the mysterious abandoned ruins- even climbing some rickety old metal steps. It has remained a place of enchantment in my imagination.
Thank you for this blog which has helped fill in details to my memories. Now back for a short visit with my sisters (with my 2 daughters) - have been living in UK since 1993.
Douglas Finch
We used to play there back in the 50's when it was still operating. We would watch the steam engine bring coal cars to the plant, back one up a ramp into the plant, then tip it over to dump the coal into the burners. Riding our bikes up and down the oil soaked rocky ramp was a hoot. Thanks for the memories.
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