[flar]

Some urban neighbourhoods around the Delta, where normally parallel King and Main streets cross. Most people would say this is in East Hamilton, but it's actually closer to the centre of the lower city.

Main and Gage

Now on to King Street

Back to Main St. heading East

Gage Park, a large park.

Back to the Delta

Now heading east on King Street

Walking through some neighbourhoods heading North back to Main St. The houses are a bit newer in these nice middle class neighbourhoods.

Back to Main St.

This is Delta Collegiate

Heading west, back toward the Delta

Another nice old school

Almost back to the Delta

 

[ElChico]

Nice photos.

My sister used to live in the brick apartment building on the right. A former crack house. Apparently the crack heads had moved a few doors down.

 

[adma]

Interesting how the 3-storey walkup with open balconies flanking a central stair tower is such a Hamilton paradigm...

 

[ganjavih]

Wow. Very, very cool urban grit. Bricks galore... one of my favourite materials. So much more to Hamilton than i expected.

 

[Observer Walt]

An old and interesting nabe, largely built of brick in the 1920s and 30s as Ganjavih points out.

A neighbourhood highlight, worthy of a pic in some future thread: the very first Tim Hortons, at Ottawa and Dunsmure.

 

[flar]

^^I'll be heading north on Ottawa street for a tour of "the largest fabric and textile district in Canada" and the first Tim's soon

There are a ton of those 3-storey walkups between downtown and the delta. I like how they're all individually named, "Jubilee" "Fairholt" "Victory" etc...

There is a lot of contrast in this area too. The commercial buildings and some of the apartments are rundown but many of the streets in this area harbour solid middle class neighbourhoods.

 

[Bogtrotter]

"..the largest fabric and textile district in Canada"

Isn't the Hammer also the mustard capital of North America? I recall hearing that somewhere. Nice pics- I really like Gore Park.

 

[JasonParis]

You've done it again. Great job!

BTW, this pic could have been taken in 1977...

 

[ShonTron]

Actually, many parts of lower, East Hamilton look like the land that time forgot (no storefront modernizations, old signage, etc). Barton Street from Wellington to Centre Mall looks untouched since 1976, as do parts of the Delta and Ottawa Street.

 

[JasonParis]

Nevermind the 1970s, some parts of Hamilton are frozen in 1960s working class time. The locations department of the movie Hairspray was so impressed they actually moved a bunch of scenes out of Toronto and into The Hammer.

 

[adma]

"Isn't the Hammer also the mustard capital of North America? I recall hearing that somewhere.

If ever you go to the Hamilton Farmer's Market some Saturday morning, park across the street--you might find yourself parked in front of the Ground Zero of Mustard...

And then there's the Mustard Festival

 

[Long Island Mike]

Hamilton's Delta area

Flar: Good photo tour of the Delta area! I noticed pix showing some rough around the edge type areas as well as good solid brick house blocks. More reason for HML to fascinate me....LI MIKE