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In 1972, No.8 Hose Station burned in a huge blaze that brought out a lot of Toronto firefighters and all of the Kensington neighbours. The bells plunged to the bottom of the tower during the fire. The tower itself stood, but was so weakened it had to be taken down for safety's sake. The station was rebuilt as a replica of the original. - Photo courtesy: Kensington Roots
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In 1972, No.8 Hose Station burned in a huge blaze that brought out a lot of Toronto firefighters and all of the Kensington neighbours. The bells plunged to the bottom of the tower during the fire. The tower itself stood, but was so weakened it had to be taken down for safety's sake. The station was rebuilt as a replica of the original. - Photo courtesy: Kensington Roots
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Traffic has always been a bugbear in Kensington's old streets. All kinds of solutions have been suggested, but so far none has worked. - Photo courtesy: 1980, Kensington Roots
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Kensington Avenue, east side, 1981. - Photo courtesy: Vincenzo Pietropaolo
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The view from inside the Oxford Fruit store, at the corner of Nassau and Augusta, where grapes are hung in the Malaysian tradition. - Photo courtesy: Vincenzo Pietropaolo
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During the 1970s, St. Stephen's began sponsoring street festivals that seemed to involve everyone. Then Mayor Art Eggleton opens a festival on Bellevue Avenue outside the community house. - Photo courtesy: St. Stephen's Community House
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The culture of Kensington has long been one where local residents have worked out their own solutions to local problems. Local punkers held a drug-awareness event in Bellevue park, to counter the upsurge of drug dealers within the market in the 1980s.
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