Photograph of Spring Street, Castleton, Castleton Women's Institute scrapbook

Description

Comments (0)

Media Type

Image

Text

Item Type

Scrapbooks

Description

Cramahe Archives have four Women's Institute [WI] Scrapbooks in its collections. The WI scrapbooks contain diverse subject material about Colborne and Cramahe. All four WI scrapbooks have been scanned page by page. The scrapbooks can be accessed by going to the "Browse by Subject" option on the Cramahe Archives home page and scrolling to the bottom of the subject terms to locate "Women's Institute Scrapbooks" and then click on this link.

This image appears on page 140 in the Women's Institute scrapbook - the local identifier number for this particular scrapbook is 5sb. Original photographs included in this Women's Institute scrapbook have had individual records created for them, greatly increasing their accessibility for searching under general keyword terms.

See the link - Tweedsmuir History, Castleton Branch, Women's Institute - on the right side of the page to access the scrapbook. Click on the Select arrow for Pages to see the relevant page. The Pages box is located at the top of the page.

Notes

Cramahe Archives does not hold this scrapbook in its collection, but has digital images of the contents. The image was not taken from the original photograph, but from a downloaded copy of the original page of the scrapbook.

Castleton Branch, Women's Institute, was founded in November 1905.

Inscriptions

Inscription on p.140 reads: "Castleton 1979 looking east on Spring Street from left, Bank of Commerce & Young home (formerly hotel), Service Station (Esso), Ted McBride home, Triplex with B & P Meats Store (known as the Block), Newman & Co. General Store"

Date of Original