Delaware County historian Keith Lockhart is cataloging images, postcards and photo-based illustrations from yesteryear in Delaware County.
All of them are tough in some style relating to the precise areas, and he would respect your experience and reminiscence as he continues by way of this cataloging work. The Each day Instances is gladly supporting the hassle, and believes that this week’s picture is perhaps the hardest one but with out homes within the picture.
Keith says this week’s picture is of Riverview Avenue in Drexel Hill. There’s one “machine” on the road, no signal of electrical energy, nevertheless it looks like a reasonably new block for the reason that bushes are quick.
He’s on the lookout for any particulars anybody can present: some kind of location, path and cross avenue what do you suppose you realize?
Keith’s e mail is keith106@rcn.com. Try extra from Keith at delawarecountyhistory.com.
Now, for last week’s difficult photo of Baltimore Pike in Clifton Heights:
• “For sure, the trolley line on the location is the Angora to Media trolley, ultimately owned by Southern Pennsylvania Traction in 1910. The road was initially chartered on Might 11, 1892 because the Delaware County and Philadelphia Electrical Railway Firm. It lasted till round 1930, then was changed by buses.
“From maps from the interval and another footage, the tracks have been on the North aspect of Baltimore Avenue with the electrical energy strains to the best.
“Now for the placement, it seems to be wanting West in the direction of Bishop Avenue from round Eyre Avenue and Wilton Avenue. Homes have been being constructed there in 1910.
“The fence on the left could have been from the Burn Brae Asylum. The topography would match the descent on Baltimore Avenue by the counting of the variety of electrical poles alongside the trolley line earlier than they begin rising towards Bishop Avenue. All the world to the left was a part of the property of Dr. Robert A. Given, who ran the asylum at that location. That property prolonged from Oak Avenue to Bishop Avenue on the South aspect of Baltimore Avenue, roughly the place all of the shops are immediately.
“Maps from Clifton Heights and USGS from that interval appear to verify.” — David Burns
With that thorough investigation, it’s a thriller no extra.
