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HAROLD BAIN Lots 2 & 3, Gone. 17 GREENOCK TOWNSHIP The name of the farm on Concession l7, Greenock, was Prospect Place, so named by the original owner, Wm. Erad- ley. Lot 2, of 10!. acres, was sold to Wm. Bradley by the Crown in 1876 for$156.00. In the year of 1874, Wm. Bradley bought lot 3, of 104 acres, at the price of $130.00 from the drown. Bradley built the L shaped red brick house in 1874, that now stands on lot 3, making this his home which was well known over a large area as the “Bradley Homestead. This lot had also been partially cleared by squatters who had lived in a small stone cottage which Bradley converted into a milfl house. There was also a good sized blacksmith shop and several other small buildings built in the year of 1909. Mr. Bradley brcame a well known cattle drover and he drove a mule and cart as a means of transportation. This mule was at times baulky. Bradley had a powerful command of the use of words and usually could convince the mule to proceed, but sometimes he failed. When this happened he callâ€" ed on his neighbour, Mr. Buckley for help. He was supreme in the art and he would characterise the mule and its ancestors in a language that left nothing to be desired and the mule would proceed. Mr. Bradley was the first to plant an apnle orchard. when the trees started bearing, the school boys of that day would steal up at night and help themselves to the apples. For awhile Bradley tried to guard them by watching For marâ€" auders but without success. Then he decided to build a picket Fence of cedar posts, seven feet high, touching each other and sharpened to a point on the top, but the boys weren't to be mil,- ed, as the next night they got an anger and bit, also a saw, and sewed a post off at the ground level, slipped the post aside, got their apples, then replaced the post and Mr. Brad- ley never seemed to catch on. Toâ€"day, keeping alive the memory of Mr. Wm. Bradley, the first legal owner was a school named after himâ€"-Number '7. Before the days of rural mail there was a Post Office called Bradley and later in 1953, Bradley Women's Institute was organized and is an out- standing memorial to Wm. Bradley who was such a colourful personality in that era of the pioneers. The Bradley homestead was rented to Mr. Dougal Campbell for a number of years, then was sold to Mr. Wm. Sheldroth of Sullivan Township in Grey County. He in turn sold it to Andrew Eain of Saugeen Township in 1909. Mr. Andrew Bain was the son of Andrew Balm and Mary Calvin both natives of Scotland. Andrew had one sister, Catharine, (Mrs. Jas. Mathesan) of Bruce and one brother John. In the year 1882, Andrew married Mary Jane Sutherland of Saugeen Township where a family of four boys and two girls w ere born; Alex, lived in Brant Township, and passed away in 1961, Margaret, (Mrs. Harvey Garland) of Grimsby, Leslie, (Mrs. Wm. Hammond)of Beamsâ€" ville, William of Eeamsville, and Harold on the homestead until 1963. Andrew passed away in 1955 at Grensby. Harold Bain became the owner in 191.0 and was married to Jean Acton. They have one daughter, Shirley, now married to Jim Harris and living, on a farm near Kincardine. They have two boys. The First barn was built in 1870 and was remodled in 1910 to 60 x 60 test. The water supply was a spring, a dug well and Plum creek running across back 0? the farm. In later years a drilled well supplied house and barn. (Cont‘d)