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Howard Bligh & Sons Coldbrook Warehouse
Howard Bligh & Sons Warehouse Coldbrook
Mile 2.4 on the Kentville Subdivision at Coldbrook
The apple warehouse in Coldbrook was one of several in the Annapolis Valley built and owned by Howard Bligh, a pioneer of apple warehouse construction. It was built in June 1908. The warehouse was later bought by the British Canadian Fruit Company chain. It was closed for apple packing in the early 1930s as British Canadian consolidated some of its warehouses. The Coldbrook warehouse was used for carrots in the 1940s. It was purchased by Atlantic Wholesalers for grocery distribution in the 1960s. The used clothing store Guy Frenchy's purchased the warehouse in the 1990s and it is now a large and popular outlet in the Frenchy's chain. The warehouse was clad in metal and lost its original square wooden ventilators about 2010 but still retains its original trackside loading doors with blacksmith-made hinges and natural wood knee braces in the interior.
Gallery
Air photo of Coldbrook with the Scotian Gold Plant, White Rose Oil bulk plant and Atlantic Wholesalers, ex Howard Bligh warehouse, circa 1963-64.
Chronicle Herald photo of the abandonment of the Kentville and Yamouth Subdivisions with crews lifting track at Coldbrook, Bligh Warehouse in background, March 28, 1990.
Howard Bligh & Sons Coldbrook Warehouse, October 12, 2002.
Howard Bligh & Sons Coldbrook Warehouse, June 15, 2012.
One of the surviving wooden knees in the Howard Bligh & Sons Coldbrook Warehouse, June 15, 2012.
References and Footnotes
- Marie Bishop, Memories of Coldbrook, Kings Historical Society, p. 74-75.
