How times have changed
A little bit of old Hamilton in August 1967. In the day, the population of the city was about 63,000, about a third of the Hamilton inhabitants today. So, the city had quite a bit of growth to go on with. This photo has a distinctly rural look about it and indeed, it was rural some years ago. Note too, in those long-gone times, the only way to get in the photo if you haven’t got delayed shutter stuff is to have the sun behind you. Is this a selfie? The photographer is standing in the entrance way to timber merchants Tuck & Watkins which was a large timber mill and yard on the corner (more or less) of Avalon Drive & Forest Lake Road. Forest Lake Road runs across and the road heading off in the distance is Chilcott Road which disappeared in the redesign of Lincoln Street to Avalon Drive.
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HCL_03529, Hamilton City Libraries