Dunbar Residents Association News and Events

Most every block in Dunbar has one or even as much as 4 houses now being demolished and new very large homes built next door to neighbours . Yes the neighbourhood is undergoing a construction boom that we have never seen before, except probably in the early 1900 ! Many old but structural sound homes and garages are being demolished and large truckloads of waste is being sent to landfill ! I find it surprising and wonderful when a major renovation does take place on a old home in Dunbar now and watch as the home is lifted up or just painted and landscaped .Our senior neighbours that have lived in Dunbar for many years, kind of accept the noise , dust and 8 months of construction activity, but for many old time Dunbarites it is annoying ! The excavator continues for a few days house smashing and ripping, all this kind of some how rekindle memories of old families that once lived in the house, great gardening and just very friendly helpful people, who we talked to every morning, over a low side and backyard fence.

Where there was once , backyard fruit trees, raspberry bushes and a “Victory Vegetable Garden Patch”, today it will all be replaced by a big garage or a lane home . The Backyard Lawn is also being reduced to a postage stamp size ! The Head- lines in the local paper should read our lawns are under attack, not only from Chafer Beetles and Skunks but from New House construction !

The huge, old lovely smelling “Van Fleet Rose” that survived by being planted on the old “not necessary to survey property fence line” is now gone in the diesel smell of excavator exhaust fumes ! The neighbours “Quince Bush” with is fruit that made great jam, along with its wonderful spring pink flowers, is gone now hanging out of the excavators bucket !

The last to go is the jungle of Raspberry Bushes, they survived many previous home owners for the berries were so sweet and over the many years required no help at all from anyone !

I just watched a Group of seniors singing on T. V. the song” Should I Stay or Should I Go ” it was really wonderful and it reminded me of what is taking place in Our Dunbar Today .

Terry

Download the February DRA Newsletter and read it ahead of all your friends and neighbours… especially the Joneses.

We’ve added Disappearing Dunbar to our side panel of Dunbar Links of Distinction.

This is a website about Dunbar’s redevelopment and the site notes our changing Dunbar neighbourhood what with old houses making way for the new,and  much larger, houses often with laneway houses.