Village Squire, 1980-08, Page 12The Teeswater Creamery
The Oldest Creamery in
Canada
Manufacturers
of
CHEDDAR and COLBY
Cheese
And "Highest Quality
Butter"
Conveniently located on
Highway 4 at Teeswater
s
Store Hours: 8 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Monday to Saturday [Holidays included].
Ca adds`Leader in`Kitchenes and `Vanities
BAECHLER
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Kitchen Planning by Bill McKee
150 THE SQUARE
GODERICH, ONT.
1519] 524-8600
PG. 10 VILLAGE SQUIRE/AUGUST 1980
Blackburn worked before he became owner of the Free Press. On
the walls are photographs of early London, such as the Richmond
Street Market and a receipt for advertising from the Free Press
which was the first paper in Ontario to adopt a fixed scale of
advertising rates.
FURNISHED HOUSES
There are several furnished houses in the Village, one of which
is the white frame Miller House, moved here from St. Marys.
Behind the kitchen and dining area is a laundry room complete
with old hand irons and a freshly laundered petticoat and
camisole hanging on the clothesline. In the pantry are dried
herbs, butter prints, and a copy of The Housekeeper's Perfect
Account Book. One can find a piano, a concertina, and a
stereoptican in the parlour, recalling a time when families
created their own entertainment.
In the frame barn beside the Miller House are a number of
antique harvesting tools which will be used this year to bring in
the Village's crops by the old fashioned method. There are cows
and horses, and goats will be arriving soon. Swallows dart in and
The Free Press printing Office.
out of the open barn windows. There is always a cat on the
premises, (at present, a sleek black and white puss) and there
are three dogs, one of which is named Daisy, who will soon be
having pups.
The second house one encounters once belonged to Paul Peel,
a well known Canadian artist whose works include "Covent
Garden Market," which was part of the opening exhibition at the
London Regional Gallery.
The Parlour is decorated in elegant Victorian style, with a
plush couch, a glass case of flowers made from feathers, and a
patchwork spread made of velvet and silk. On the walls are
prints of Peel's paintings, including the famous "After the
Bath." The nearby Jury House is the birth place of Dr. Wilfred
Jury, who helped to found the Village. In his old bedroom
upstairs are arrowheads, pipes and a bow and arrow, all
reflecting the Doctor's interest in Indian life. Downstairs in the
kitchen, cookies are baked over the old wood stove on weekends.
Part of the aim of the Pioneer Village is to depict the way in
which buildings were originally used. In the Caverhill
Woodworking Shop, carpenter Steve Judge does work for the
Village and also produces objects which are sold at the General
Store. Ross Tanner forges steel items, working in a replica of the
Blacksmith shop that stood at Highbury and Fanshawe Park
Road. In the Weaver's Shop Jean Milne and Mrs. Muir craft
items from an 1857 floor loom which was moved intact along with
the rest of Thomas Alder's Weaving Shop. The metal parts of the
loom were brought over from England and the wooden pieces