This gloomy-looking pile of bricks is home to George Brown & Sons Ltd., Memorial Architects.
Yup, tombstones.
473 Bronson
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This is a truly awesome picture… Congratulations!
Or is it a painting? Because it looks like one!
It doesn’t look all that gloomy to me. It’s kind of funky — are those gargoyles on the corners?
you could probably print that on canvas and sell that back to them.
Hi Robin,
Just found your website recently and I love the images you capture and your post processing. I’m wondering if you use Photomatix and if you care to share some of your tips or techniques.
Thanks and I look forward to seeing your image a day!
Thanks, Tired Prop. It’s a photo :)
XUP, don’t you think it looks kind of Gothic? I’m not sure if those are gargoyles or not. I’ll have to get up closer next time.
Pearl, it’s crossed my mind that pictures of well-known buildings could have some commercial potential. Unlike everything else I do.
Hi Marcy, thanks for stopping by. I think your pictures are great. I’ve emailed you privately with some photo tech talk, so as not to bore the other guests with it. Come again!
I used to drive by that building every day – it looks better in that shot than life :-)
I have always found it even more than gothic – When I was younger I read a lot of darker fantasy – (ie deLint)
And that building always fit my mental model of flickering lightening and tainted smoke oozing out of door jams….
Nice photo. The re-Cycles Bicycle Co-op / Cycle Salvation shop is right next door at 477. The building in the photo belongs to our landlord, who runs his carpentry business in the rear (I don’t know how much monument business he does). His family has apparently owned that building and the one we’re in for over fifty years.
Hi Mark,
I’ve been trying to get a good photo of your building. Not quite ready yet. Thanks for the information!
I’ve been travelling from Somerset to Carling almost every day for several years now, either on Bronson if I’m walking or on Percy if I’m riding my bike, and I’m just starting to appreciate the funky old buildings that are there. Some of them are already gone, like Ainee’s. I’ll keep trying to get good pics of as many of them as I can.
Can you please bore me with the details that you sent Marcy. I downloaded the software but haven’t figured out how to get your effects. thanks,
Deb, I’ve emailed you privately. I think you’ll like Lightroom.
No need to take a photo of next door, Robin. re-Cycles moved into this building (473 Bronson) today! ;)
Charles: Cool!
Thank you for this terrific picture. I was certainly surprised to see it on the web as the building housed my grandfather’s memorial craftsmen business, George Brown and Sons, which he began in 1928. His sons, grandsons and one granddaughter all worked there at one time or another.
George Brown immigrated to Canada from Hucknall, Nottinghamshire in 1908. He passed away in Florida in 1946, and is buried in Beechwood Cemetery, Ottawa, under a stone carved by his sons.
Great to hear from you Robert, and I’m glad you like the picture.
Cool pic. You should check out that old building in City Centre (industrial park between Somerset and Scott). While you’re there, find out what goes on in there and who owns it… and report back to me!
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aye aye sir!
The re-Cycles shop has been installed for over a year now, and we love it there. Stan Brown still runs the family business out of the left (north) front office, while we have the rest of the space, which is actually three rooms (this is quite noticeable from Gladstone). The floor in the centre work room is made of 3″ thick oak boards, held up by 3x8s (real ones, not “nominal”) and I-beams. All for supporting the huge crates of granite and marble used in the original monument production. Stan told me the driveway was built just long enough for an 18-wheel flatbed truck to back in, which must have been fun for the driver, and then first with a crane and later a forklift they moved the crates in. We’re presuming Stan is waiting for the empty lot to the north (owned by Imperial Oil) to get sold to developers so that he can sell the rest of the block to them. But that lot has been empty for going on 15 years, and now there are plans to put in a community garden, so perhaps our shop is safe for a while yet.
All excellent news Mark. Thanks for the update!