A little bit of family history.

This is the bell that may have summoned my father to school in or around 1920, the town of Bowmanville on the shore of Lake Ontario is certainly where they lived at the time. Formerly it was in a bell tower which was taken down in the 1970 for safety reasons.

The school was built in 1889 and is still performing as an infants and junior school, although a High School has since opened for the older children.
My father was born in Bowmanville in 1915, followed by siblings  Robert in 16 and Isobel in 17. In the early 20s they all moved to Toronto, where my grandfather, who had emigrated here in 1913, transferred his occupation with the Goodyear Tyre Company.
Although the school secretary was very obliging and searched through the old records for me she was unable to verify his attendance as the records are incomplete for that period,

I am fairly certain that the my father and his siblings were baptised in St John's Church, the only C of E church in the town at that time. Again the secretary was extremely helpful, showing us around and giving us a little history of the place, but all records would have been transferred to the Diocesan archives in Toronto some years ago. We will not be going there at this time, but possibly later in the trip.

Grandfather Bailey may have worked in this factory, although still owned by Goodyear it is run by a subsidiary now, manufacturing belts for conveyors. Unfortunately because of health and safety concerns rendering it too expensive to update it is due to close in a couple of weeks after more than 100 years.
I am to some extent disappointed that I was unable to find out where they lived here, no doubt in a rented house, but there are many homes here that are of that vintage. A visit to the heritage centre may elude some further information later, as they are going to carry out some research for me.