GDHS

• It was like this in 1960.
•  Does anyone know exactly why the original old building was eventually torn down? 
  Was it not worth saving?
• From what my Grandma had said there was a fire in the old building.
• For some reason I can't figure out this pic. I thought i knew at first but did one of those sections get torn down before we attended in the 80s? I can't place the 2 story next to the lower building and that doorway....
•  Didn't look like this when I started in '65
• Really?? This is GDHS??
  I started there in 1973 and I don’t remember it looking anything like this!!
• The stairs on the far right I can't make sense of. The elevation alone is throwing me off
• Perhaps the back side?
• Did the space between the two brick building become the courtyard we had?
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  • that certainly seems plausible. Wonder if the pic is from Guelph street....
  •  I am thinking the back....near the beach volleyball pit
  • Could be - from the old old photos the old high school was further back on the hill. It is way behind the Anglican church.
• From what I’ve seen of pictures of the original school. I think this is the front of it. There for taken from Guelph street. I think the front building is where the offices are now..... as to where the stairs are now in the school.
• I don't recall the school looking that old architecturally, as in the building at the back.​
• Where’s our 1950s high schoolers. The angle is really bugging me now.
• The road went around there.....when I went the white building bottom windows was the art classes....strange angle
• The middle. Between the buildings is the court yard. The front offices now run along the back of these buildings. The road to the pool runs along the side of the front building. Would have been the smoking area in the 80s I think. 
• • Those windows on the left side became the teachers lounge. The boilers were in the front corner addition in the front wing that paralleled Guelph Street, along with the office when they added the two story front wing.
• Mid 60's
•  I believe the angle is actually taken from the corner of what is now the track and football field. The key is the topography and the tree line in the back. The original brick building has either been incorporated into the current structure, or was removed altogether when the indoor pool was built. The area behind the fore structure is the rear parking lot I believe. Guelph street is to the right, behind a line of houses. St. Georges is basically straight ahead (slight right) behind the various school structures.
•  Not sure Sean. I’m going by the stairs. And the elevation. There’s no stairs back there.
• The middle. Between the buildings is the court yard. The front offices now run along the back of these buildings. The road to the pool runs along the side of the front building. Would have been the smoking area in the 80s I think.
•  wish I could get street view from this angle.. but I think it was taken where the Arrow is..Pointing towards the upper right..that would mean the "front" of the old building is facing st. George's... Just checked an older pic i have in the vault.. the front of the original school faced the Church
• Nope...the pic is taken from a vantage out of frame, but lower right corner. In your aerial pic above, the corner of the building in the lower right, is the corner of the building that sits on the higher elevation in your original older pic.
• is this the front of the old school?
• yes.. that's the front.. facing st. George's ..
• Remember when the school was there, there was also a lake. Having the school face downtown overlooking the lake would suit the architects of the day.
•  Didn’t look like this in mid 70s
• This is pre 1960
• 50's maybe - I have no memory of seeing the old school!
• If it is...and it looks like it then it means that single story in the front was completely torn down. Which still wouldnt make sense. There would be way too much space between Guelph street and that 2 storey building.
• The only question is, was the bldg the same front and back??
•  no it's still a single story...on that part anyway
• If you go in the front doors now.. turn right towards the offices,, then go to the next hallway.. turn left.. down where the guidance offices.... That's the hallway in the single story part..
• pretty much where the photographer is standing is where the tech hall is now..
• So the old smoking area would be in this area also. This is the St George’s church side of the school?
• Ok I found the picture that shows the old school from facing Wilber Lake and not Guelph St. This explains to me the photo location a lot better!!!
  
  


• Yes. I left in 57 and school was as pictured. Moved back in 60 and old section was gone. I remember now. Senior moment.
•  I think Bonnie nailed it. It's just the the Tech Hall is not there yet.
• I was there in 59-62 remember both the old and the new
   The old was gone when I arrived in 1967. Old there with my siblings. Only the old when my dad and his siblings attended.
  
• Is the photo taken where the gyms/auditorium were built?
•  Can not remember the Old School there when I went.
  
• Shame the got rid of the old part , I would gather that is hard some neat features
  
• I think I read somewhere there was no central heating in the old school. Each classroom had a pot-belly stove. The design was beautiful but could not be expanded to accommodate a growing town. Knocking things down was cheaper than finding ways to work with the old grand buildings. Thank goodness they sold the old post office instead of knocking it down to build a new one. If the site had more land, that is what they would have done there too!
  
• Had a good look at the roof so I don’t think it was the pot belly stove in each room as the roof doesn’t seem to have a ton of chimneys 
  
• But I think it was just a case of function over form
• ​ I can remember construction happening about ‘64-66
• We all remember the steps going down into the gym(s). When I started the library was across from the front office. By grade 11 we had a new library, the thing called a "cafetorium", gym 3 and a wing of classrooms above the shops
  
• When did you attend GDHS? My apologies if you were there at the same time that I was (1967-1972), but your name doesn't ring a bell (mind you, the clapper on my bell is beginning to get clapped out).
  
• 1966-70 - I was just a bit ahead of you, that's why
•  I started at GHS in Fall 1959. Already the old Lennox-designed building had come down and been replaced, and there had been additions to what you see in this photo. As near as I can make out, the white windows at the far left faced the church and housed the home-ec classroom. The doors that you see in the middle with students standing outside … in 1959 they led into an east-west hallway that ran beside the gym and joined up with the two-story section at the right (it was a single gym, with a glass-brick wall on the south side). In other words, the original gym would have sat right where those kids are. The cafetorium was built onto the right-hand end of that two-story section – can’t remember the exact date, but it had been built by the time I left in 1964. Probably about 1962.
  The Lennox building was replaced by a new section that had the shop classroom on the ground floor and science labs on the second floor. It was on the north-east corner of the school (i.e. the end closest to Kay’s)
  
•  Mom graduated grade 13 in the old school in 1940.
•  Attended from 1956 1958. I started in the old school but the extension was started No pot belly stoves. Lol
  
•  I remember shortened school days in gr. 9 while new section was under construction.