Today, while the silver thaw is still on the trees, I went somewhere that I don't recall having properly photographed from ever before - the grounds of the Confederation Building. It's at the peak of the second hill of St. John's so you'll see the backside of the downtown core.
Basically, the red lines are my sight lines and they converge at the point I was standing.
The blue line is the horizon of the first hill of St. John's. Keep in mind the Southside Hills opposite the city are much higher so you'll still see hill above this horizon line. But everything you usually see from me is over that hill, between the horizon and the hillside in the distance.
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Elizabeth Towers.
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Holy Heart and Brother Rice are the two big high schools to the upper left. They will soon be our last two downtown high schools as Booth and Bishop are being closed and combined with the new Waterford Valley High School in the west end.
This is one of the few areas where the Southside Hills have residential areas on them. They're Shea Heights to the left and, pictured, Kilbride.
The building in the foreground is St. Patrick's Mercy Home.
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Belvedere's Convent and Orphanage grounds.
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The backside of Rabbittown, my neighbourhood.
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The backside of Georgestown, the wealthier neighbourhood directly adjacent to mine.
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The backside of everyone's favourite building.
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Memorial University's clocktower.
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Rawlin's Cross.
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The Colonial Building, our former Parliament, and Bannerman Park.
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The little skyline in the Downtown East End, at the opposite side of the downtown from our little cluster of towers.
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Department of Fisheries, and the last remaining Canadian-owned piece of Pleasantville, formerly the U.S. base Fort Pepperell. The rest has been sold back to the city and renovated beautifully into apartment buildings, etc.
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Department of Natural Resources (foreground), Royal Canadian Mounted Police headquarters (background). They only police rural Newfoundland (the Royal Newfoundland Constabulary does St. John's, Corner Brook, and Labrador West; part of our Terms of Union - BUT the RCMP does investigate when the RNC discharges a weapon, like the recent case that wrapped up where an officer fired his gun at Memorial University), but their HQ is still in St. John's.
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Tiffany Park, looking toward Robin Hood Bay.
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The east side of Memorial University.
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Memorial University (foreground) and Kenmount Road (background).
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Holy Heart High School and parts of Georgestown. Our denominational (Catholic/General Protestant) school system was abolished in the 1990s, but most schools are still largely one or the other and have their Christian names. Holy Heart used to be an all-girls school and the students from countless smaller schools throughout the Old East End went there - including Mary Walsh, and me mudder. I love her stories about it. She said all the schools feeding into Holy Heart were much smaller, so going there was a huge shock, like going to university. She loved it.
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Now looking the other way, toward the west. The new YMCA.
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Admiral's Green Golf Course (not as fancy as nearby Bally Hally)
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Looking back toward the Outer Ring Road, our ring road, which is the one between the cheap rowhouses and the suburbs beyond.
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