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Dartmouth Common Swimming Pool

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What is now a flower garden at the corner of Alderney Drive (and what used to be) Park Avenue. On the part of Park Avenue seen extending across Alderney Drive is a clue as to the number of buildings that once dotted the shoreline, mostly industrial, all since demolished, lands that have remained vacant for decades ever since.

A view of Alderney Drive (then Commerical Street) below from the same intersection as seen above at top left, looking towards North Woodside, the Nova Scotia Hospital in the distance.

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