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( Orono Weekly limes, Wednesday, November 28, 2001 - 13 The Verandah by Myno Van Dyke Over the past few months, I have witnessed one of my neighbours painstakingly building a spectacular verandah verandah on two sides of the old brick farmhouse just north of the CPR tracks on Arthur Street in Newcastle. My curiosity finally got the better of me one day when we were walking our dog past their house. "Looks great! It's just like the picture I have," I shouted to the man working on a ladder. This got his attention and he came right over. I quickly explained that my friend, Bob Northrup, had given me two old yellowed photos of the farmhouse. He rushed into the house and brought out a different, different, neatly framed black and white photograph with three people and the front end of a car that looked like a 1915 to 1920 Model T Ford. The three people in the phdtograph are believed to be John Allin and his two sisters, Elizabeth and Adah. The latest owners of the old farmhouse are Doug and Bridget Rombough. The former former Oshawa residents purchased purchased the house, garage and one acre of land in 1997. "We wanted to move out of the suburbs and liked the Newcastle community," Doug- explained. They had a large family gathering there that Christmas and very quickly the well went dry. They found that the well was not only dry but what little water they got was contaminated. The easiest easiest solution, they thought would be to tap into the village village water line running in front of their home, however the Region balked at the idea. Eventually, after several years of "red tape" they were able to tap into the town water. In 1843, Richard Allin ,and his wife Ann (Brimacombe) ' sold the family farm in Sutcombe, England and along with their eight children left for Canada. It was a long arduous six week voyage across the Atlantic and down (he St. Lawrence into Lake Ontario. In April of 1843, they arrived in Port Darlington and settled on 200 acres near Bowmanville. One of the children, William and his wife Jane (Blackburn) settled in Newcastle. They purchased 200 acres at Concession 2 Lot 27 in Clarke Township. This land was on the west side of Arthur Street running from King Street north to Concession 3. A note from an Allin family member indicates indicates that they purchased this land in 1873 from the Clergy Reserve which was represented represented by Rev. Canon Brent. William died in 1889, but his son John and daughters Elizabeth and Adah remained on the farm. Another son, Mark, also worked on the farm but lived in Newcastle Village on Church Street with his wife, Beatrice (Toms) and their daughter Evelyn (Northrup). Later, some of the farm land south of the C.P.R. tracks was sold to Fred Graham. The Graham farmhouse, farmhouse, still stands on the south side King Street on the east side of the entrance to Parkview. In 1935, John died and his brother Mark died in 1937. .The two sisters, Adah and Elizabeth, then moved into Newcastle at The Towers, which is where the Guardian Drug Store is now. The farm was sold to Herman Schmid and his wife Bertha and Herman's brother Hooldy (Huldrich) Schmid 1 in the fall of 1937. The Schmid's had immigrated from Switzerland in 1927 and first moved to the Enfield area Mrs. Schmid died in 1940 at a young age and their son Flerman Jr. also died at a young age. The Schmids were known to raise chickens and apparently at. one time they had about 500 chicks in the large attic on the north side of the house. Herman remarried to Hermina (Scharer) in 1947 and sold the farm around 1967 to the Frew family. Herman and Hermina built a new bungalow just south of the farm on Arthur Street. Helen Schmid's late husband, husband, Emil, immigrated to ' Canada in 1949 and spent his first summer on his uncle's .(Herman Sr.) farm. Apparently Herman had been to Switzerland for a visit and paid for Emil's passage back to Canada. Emil worked all summer harvesting and delivering delivering tomatoes and other farm chores to repay the debt. After seeing the old photograph photograph of the farm house, Doug and Bridget decided to re-built the verandah as it was in the old days. Doug scanned the photograph and enlarged the area of the sculpted designs and had them made up identical identical to the original ones. The vertical posts were also made the same. Doug used various dimensions of brick and win dows as an accurate comparison comparison to ensure they would be the same size. Although the Rombough's have spent considerable time and money restoring the house it is obvious that it is a labour of love for them. Doug and Bridget are looking forward to it being finished so they can finally be able to enjoy their verandah. 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