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Keeping hand in: Dr. Leslie Laking, 64, is still skilful with the pruning shears. He studied horticulture on scholoarship to London's famous Kew Gardens.
Keeping hand in: Dr. Leslie Laking, 64, is still skilful with the pruning shears. He studied horticulture on scholoarship to London's famous Kew Gardens.

Keeping hand in: Dr. Leslie Laking, 64, is still skilful with the pruning shears. He studied horticulture on scholoarship to London's famous Kew Gardens.

Date4/23/1981
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ProvenanceCourtesy: Toronto Star Photograph Archives
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0129147F
Changed times: The girlie pictures will soon be off the wall of Andrew Beierle's Sherbourne St. shop, as the 82-year-old barber hangs up his shears after 70 years in business.
Changed times: The girlie pictures will soon be off the wall of Andrew Beierle's Sherbourne St. shop, as the 82-year-old barber hangs up his shears after 70 years in business.
5/16/1981
London's Lord Mayor at City Hall, Clad in traditional robes of his office, Sir Robert Bellinger, Lord Mayor of London, shakes hands with Joseph Jenkins, of the Canadian corps of Commissionaires, who came to Canada from London 61 years ago.
London's Lord Mayor at City Hall, Clad in traditional robes of his office, Sir Robert Bellinger, Lord Mayor of London, shakes hands with Joseph Jenkins, of the Canadian corps of Commissionaires, who came to Canada from London 61 years ago.
10/19/1967
Shades of Samson! It's not any Delilah wielding shears, nor has he any fear of being deprived of his great strength as Canadian heavyweight champion G(...)
Shades of Samson! It's not any Delilah wielding shears, nor has he any fear of being deprived of his great strength as Canadian heavyweight champion G(...)
5/6/1971
Shades of Samson! It's not any Delilah weilding shears, nor has he any fear of being deprived of his great strength as Canadian heavyweight champion G(...)
Shades of Samson! It's not any Delilah weilding shears, nor has he any fear of being deprived of his great strength as Canadian heavyweight champion G(...)
5/6/1971
[Menu] Rossin House : G.P. Shears, lessee and manager
[Menu] Rossin House : G.P. Shears, lessee and manager
1869
The newsroom tour: Star assistant managing editor Mary Deanne Shears, left, shows a group of visitors around the newsroom
The newsroom tour: Star assistant managing editor Mary Deanne Shears, left, shows a group of visitors around the newsroom
2/12/1984
Image shows three people standing at the intersection of Thorncliffe and Beth Nelson Drive.
East York Mayor True Davidson presents shears to Beth Nealson, the last mayor of Leaside before it was absorbed by East York
10/6/1972
Head cases: Maple Leaf rookies Rob Pearson (left) and Alexander Godynyuk need some protection against cold after teammates took the shears to their heads
Head cases: Maple Leaf rookies Rob Pearson (left) and Alexander Godynyuk need some protection against cold after teammates took the shears to their heads
12/2/1991
Jim Gilchrist was a cancer specialist working in London's Victoria Hospital, a job he'd held for 16 years, when he began to feel something was missing in his life
Jim Gilchrist was a cancer specialist working in London's Victoria Hospital, a job he'd held for 16 years, when he began to feel something was missing in his life
12/30/1986
Exposed kids: Father Roger Beals says his two kids, Travis and Cameron, were soaked with poisonous insecticides when a Toronto parks worker, wearing a gas mask, began spraying trees around the Kew Gardens area.
Exposed kids: Father Roger Beals says his two kids, Travis and Cameron, were soaked with poisonous insecticides when a Toronto parks worker, wearing a gas mask, began spraying trees around the Kew Gardens area.
7/16/1985
Up in arms: Roy Sharpe, a member of London's bingo task force and head of a group that raises money from bingo for athletic programs, says free bus rides to Brantford, with its cheaper games and bigger prizes, is cutting into the take for London charities and community groups
Up in arms: Roy Sharpe, a member of London's bingo task force and head of a group that raises money from bingo for athletic programs, says free bus rides to Brantford, with its cheaper games and bigger prizes, is cutting into the take for London charities and community groups
9/28/1984
Now a professor of economics at Atkinson College at York University, Dr. Alex N. McLeod has made a life-long study of the open economies of the world, such as Canada. On desk is part of collection of currencies of nations he studied.
Now a professor of economics at Atkinson College at York University, Dr. Alex N. McLeod has made a life-long study of the open economies of the world, such as Canada. On desk is part of collection of currencies of nations he studied.
11/6/1969