Our Windsor Clubhouse

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Our Clubhouse in Windsor, Nova Scotia

Located in the Windsor Exhibition Park, Wentworth Road, Windsor ,Nova Scotia

 

In 2001, our group, the Nova Scotia Antique Engine & Tractor Association (NSAETA), and the executive of the Hants County Exhibition in Windsor, Nova Scotia, signed an agreement that allowed us to construct a building on an already available flat foundation measuring 23 feet by 90 feet. Buildmaterial were found and many hands made light work.

This page posts pictures as the building was built and then added to in July 2006. The first group building days were June 9th and 10th, 2001. Within 9 weeks, the building was water tight and locked. This building has electric heat and hot water. Our meeting area is in the front and storage area in the back half of the building. The meeting area is gyprocked including the ceiling and insulated. It heats easily and stays warm but we don't used in the colder months anyway. Curtains on the windows, pictures of our events and antique pots, pans and saws line the walls. Without doubt, maybe the nicest building on the grounds.

The meeting room also has a stove, refrigerator, kitchen counter and sink, and a microwave oven which have already found good use for several successful beans and brown bread meal served in that room during the Hants County Exhibition every September.

We have added to other parts of the building too. There is a full line-shaft setup outside and we belt a steam engine driven by air to the shaft and then belted to various vintage line-shaft driven equipment. An NOW there is a vintage windmill, complete and pumping water.

The following pictures show the progression of the initial construction in 2001

 

Removing the forms around the new concrete wall. Concrete pad was already there.

  

A good foundation to get started with.
 

On the weekend of June 14 -15, the 4 walls were up and more than half the roof trusses were in place.

  

Early July. Roof sheathing on, veranda built. Windows and doors installed the following week
 

July 27,2001. Water tight and locked in about 9 weeks. A total of about 22 members and friends worked at various times to make it happen. Thanks to donations of materials and money from numerous businesses and members, this building is DEBT-FREE.

  

The new building extension, June 29, 2006

 

Frames built about 9 am

  

Walls are up about an hour and a half later.
 

Roof trusses are started

  

Half way there by lunchtime
 

Finishing up the roof while others continue the sheathing below. We were given permisson to build up against the shower/washroom. It had been hot so by 2:30 pm or so, we finished up for the day.

  A week later, several people return to tile the roof, and lay siding on. Staining occurred later.

And then there was a windmill. 1926 Aermotor

   

A very few months have passed since this windmill was donated to the club by Murray Giddens. It was over hauled by several members who replaced or fabricated the parts required to make it work (Aermotor still builds these) and Moe McManaman built a steel tower (that was a lot of work). It has a pump rod going down to an authentic pump jack donated by Bazil Rogers and is sitting on top of a sunken water barrel and it actually pumps/recirculates water.

Our club is easily seen from highway 101 in Nova Scotia as you pass the Windsor Ex Park . This windmill stands out from quite a distance

Last modified: January 1, 2009