It is a new school year and for students in Grimsby, Beamsville and Smithville a new high school. It opens today. It has been accumulating on the landscape for a few years. Now is the moment! The school is at the boundary of Grimsby and Beamsville. It actually has a Beamsville designation.
It is on the site of the brick factory from more than a century ago. Grimsby Brick and Tile Company Ltd. was initially founded by William Tallman around 1875, and was known as Beamsville Brick and Terracotta. It was an area of clay so it was mined on the site of more than 70 acres of land. The buildings and kilns were torn down in 1978 and much waste was dumped into the site. So you can imagine the remediation that had to happen before the school was built.
So new school, new smell - that's what I can remember going to Laura Secord Secondary School in St. Catharines - brand new when I went. And when I went to Brock, there were newly built sections there too - the student residences. I remember "new school" smell.
Grimsby's has a 750-seat theatre - that isn't quite ready yet. That was the case with Laura Secord as well. I remember the workers being there.
As for the old Grimsby Secondary School? It is empty. What will become of that site? Huge fields behind it for sports so it could be a big development. And what about the Beamsville District Secondary School with its historical columns out front? Questions without answers so far.
Here's the news article's picture of the new school.
Is this cute? Here's Millie at Nelles Manor on the bench with the owner of this antique bicycle. She created it herself. This was the Antique Car Show a few weeks ago.
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