Camp 30 (Bommanville, Ontario) Coming down soon? < on 5/20/2010 9:02 PM >
I was out in bowmanville a couple of days ago and I saw what looks like a bull dozer and they have started to clean out the rooms, buildings now. Chairs are being piled up in the court yard and also now group 4 seems to be watching the site. I saw the guard from a distance coming along the creek! For anyone who has not seen this place. Check it out now while you can.
Re: Camp 30 (Bommanville, Ontario) Coming down soon? <Reply # 2 on 5/21/2010 1:08 AM >
Probably locking up the place as some buildings were open again.
Didn't fedge post something a while ago about doors open and how it was a site on the clarington list? "The extraordinary beauty of things that fail." - Heinrich von Kleist
Re: Camp 30 (Bommanville, Ontario) Coming down soon? <Reply # 3 on 5/21/2010 2:05 AM >
maybe some red-hat lady with a cottage in muskoka attended the tour, got all offended and put in a complaint about the dirty and scratched buildings to her friends on the "inside"... Mentos... The Freshmaker
Re: Camp 30 (Bommanville, Ontario) Coming down soon? <Reply # 5 on 5/21/2010 10:35 PM >
Jeeze, Durham Regions locations are dropping like flies! Is there a newspaper article saying anything about this? We all saw the one about the demo of Kennedy House.
Re: Camp 30 (Bommanville, Ontario) Coming down soon? <Reply # 8 on 5/22/2010 4:00 PM >
This isn't just a loss for the UE community but for Canadian history. Zen and the art of infiltration... http://www.flikr.com/photos/zenslens Zen is an uber explorer, a demi god of craning and purveyor of the finer things in life.
Location: H.T.S.F.C. Time to gain and a time to lose.
Bye for now.
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Re: Camp 30 (Bommanville, Ontario) Coming down soon? <Reply # 10 on 5/23/2010 4:04 PM >
Posted by Abaddon
Yes, it is on the Clarington Doors Open list. I suppose they're just attempting to clear a path for people.
Glad to hear that. And yeah, they probably want to make it as safe as possible for tours. They did the same thing for the John St. Roundhouse. Clean up and made sure the building was safe. Some areas (pits) were roped off. Gone for a while. Be back when I'm back.
Re: Camp 30 (Bommanville, Ontario) Coming down soon? <Reply # 11 on 5/23/2010 5:09 PM >
Posted by rainman8889
Glad to hear that. And yeah, they probably want to make it as safe as possible for tours. They did the same thing for the John St. Roundhouse. Clean up and made sure the building was safe. Some areas (pits) were roped off.
My understanding of the tours was that it was outside of the buildings only. I can't see any of those buildings being deemed safe for public viewing. Mold, glass, and fire damage to name a few problems.
The problems with vandalism and whatnot has only gotten worse in the past few months and unfortunately it wouldn't surprise me if they did end up making efforts to take down some of those buildings.
I'm not in Bowmanville right now but I'll stop by this week and take some photos, and see whats going on. I noticed that some of the buildings have had siding removed, which isn't a good sign. http://www.flickr....hotos/sigurdurham/
Re: Camp 30 (Bommanville, Ontario) Coming down soon? <Reply # 12 on 5/29/2010 4:23 PM >
I didn't end up taking any photos, but they have torn down the building on the edge of the property and several signs indicate more buildings will come down. http://www.flickr....hotos/sigurdurham/
Re: Camp 30 (Bommanville, Ontario) Coming down soon? <Reply # 14 on 5/30/2010 2:02 AM >
Well I am in the area tomorrow so going to swing by - hoping to get into some of the buildings that I have missed in recent trips but not expecting much. If the Clarington Doors Open is next weekend I am thinking there will be some crews there cleaning up. I will post tomorrow night what I find.
Re: Camp 30 (Bommanville, Ontario) Coming down soon? <Reply # 15 on 5/31/2010 2:17 AM >
I met up today with another explorer there today and there is no signs of demo or anything like that. When I showed up there was a landscaping crew cleaning it up for the Doors Open next Saturday. The cafeteria was accessible today (yay for me as it was not on my last trip). The burned out gymnasium is fenced at the front door but all the windows are accessible. I wanted in the pool but could not find a POE. I will get some shots up soon - too tired lol
“I certainly want to see the facility saved, but where’s the money going to come from and who’s going to pay it,” asks Mayor Jim Abernethy, who received emails about saving it from around the world.
Even if the municipality is successful in having the property declared a provincial historical site and secures federal funding of a maximum $1 million a year for restoration and maintenance, Clarington would still need to match that amount.
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Hodgson gives the Kaitlin Group credit for doing its homework in time to stop demolition.
Whalen “called me up to say he’d read the book and how much he enjoyed it,” says Hodgson, co-author of Camp 30: Word of Honour. “He said, ‘We had no idea what we had there.’”
An “exciting” development was Kaitlin’s* agreement to open the site for a June 6 walking tour with Hodgson as part of Doors Open Clarington, says Langmaid.
“We’re hoping a lot of people will come, which will build awareness and help get the story out there.
* The Kaitlin Group, current property owner whose original plans were for a subdivision on the property. gallery | deviantart | flickr
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