GuelphToday received the following letter from Lea Anne Stonehouse regarding the memory lane mentioned in our recent article titled 'Remembering The Ward's working class heroes' posted May 21.
I just wanted to say how interesting it was to go down memory lane in the Ward. Being born and raised in Guelph and nearly 70, I was aware of some of these plants in the Ward, but not as many as this article shows. I just remember being told not to go down there as a young girl as it was a tougher side of town. We lived near King George school, and I would sometimes use the 100 steps to get to downtown, where my dad (Don Stonehouse) co-owned and managed Kennedy's Bookstore for 31 years on upper Wyndham.
Boy, has our downtown changed, and I would not necessarily say for the better. It is a lot scarier now, unfortunately.
Thanks for the article.
Lea Anne Stonehouse
