The Robert Burns Pub

As though it never existed, demolished, removed, trucked away, and a layer of earth smoothed over the old building site. Photographs taken the morning of 01 October 2025.                        

The Robert Burns Pub is no more

 

Nothing left but a pile of rubble. The Robert Burns Pub, demolished earlier this week, and derelict for over a decade, is no more. Now this corner lot is available for condos, stores, apartments, or whatever else someone wants to build here. Photos taken morning of 06 September 2025.

Rear of Robert Burns Pub from parking area, April 2015

The Hidden Trail, 11 September 2025

 A sunny day, blue sky, and around 22 C. 

Another fire, 14 September 2025

Coincidentally, there was a second fire (this time on Elmhurst Avenue) only two streets over but in the same city block a week after the fire on Westmore; the second fire, five alarms, was in a building that had not been occupied for about fifteen years. No one was injured, the apartment building had been boarded up for many years. It's possible homeless people were in the building.

Fire on Westmore Avenue

Here is the apartment building, on Westmore Avenue, where there was a fire on 05 September. These photographs were taken on 13 September 2025. When I took these photographs there were former residents leaving the building with what they could salvage from the fire, a disaster for them, and now they must find new places to live at a reasonable rent which will be difficult.

Walking to Meadowbrook Golf Course

A very long walk on 9/11; the last days of summer.