Viewing Object

Object Description

Object ID

5631

Title

Fort Langley house being moved.

Date

1957.

Description

Fort Langley house being moved from 88th Avenue to Hudson's Bay Avenue. It is being moved by a truck. Copied from a photograph in the collection of Ron Bryson.

Photo Inscription/Caption

"Overnite stop - she needed a rest (see over)" and on reverse "Next morning the hydro and telephone wire were cut. The truck under the house broke an axle when house halfway through utility lines. A loaded dual one ton (BC TEL) and 3 ton empty flatdeck pulled it to lot and neighbours farm tractor up to foundation."

People/Subject

Fort Langley (village)

residences

trucks and buses

Wisteria House

Wisteria House is the name of the house of Ron Bryson and his wife on Hudson's Bay Avenue in Fort Langley. It is also the name of his photography business. The house was originally on 88th Avenue at Bartlett Street, and might have been built by the Allen or Simpson family in about 1887, as they were early residents in the house. Later the McAllister's lived there. Mr. McAllister moved the house to it's present location on Hudson's Bay Avenue in 1957, when the house was about 70 years old. McAllister lived in the house but built and subdivided around it. After McAllister, the Nordby family lived in the house. It was purchased by Ron Bryson in 1964.

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