Inverness then and now

[JoJo]

Hi all, Apologies to Admin if inappropriate.

Would just like to invite everybody to join our group and share your photos, stories, news, memories and banter. If you are a business then you can advertise any special offers or deals. Look forward to some new faces popping up. J

https://www.facebook.com/groups/Invernessthenandnow/

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Absolutely feckin brilliant site - I would recommend it to all - especially the old feckers - and especially the old feckers from Canada.

[Scarlet Pimple]

Yeah! Yeah! just had to add that on didn't you?  

 

Although, I must admit, you have posted some awesome old pictures on this site  which sometime brought a tear to my eyes--

laughing?

 

Nah Nah! Just kidding IHE.

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This is the kind of stuff you are missing Moosehead:

 

 

[Scarlet Pimple]

Er, IHE ---where is that? Not the carse is it?

 

Can I see the Bumbers lane ?

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Click on it to enlarge- spot Caley Park and Clach Park.

[Scarlet Pimple]

All spotted.

What a fantastic set of photos from your past IHE. The stand on fire --was that the Caley Stand or Thistle's?

 

Them guys in the footie match--they sure wear short pants....? You wouldn't fit into them would you Itchy? The pants,. not the team you .......

 

I could see Dunain Road where I lived for the first 18 years of my life--man that's a really neat picture and, yes, I did enlarge it . But you know why an older man got like me doesn't go on Facebook 'cos it's for younger 'uns like you.

 

IHE what is your description of a Clinical Psychologist? I was looking into the Billy Connolly story and he is married to a New Zealand woman who has that designation , not to mention quite a successful career on BBC Radio ("Not the 9o'clock News" for one) and T V.  She wrote his biography.

 

keep em coming--we could do with a lot more pictures and humour like this!

[Charles Bannerman]

That's an intriguing photo. I don't suppose there is a date for it? Certainly the Carse is more or less empty, apart from an isolated patch of... something? I'm also not sure if Coronation Park is there beside West/ North/ South Drive. The Caley Park is also interesting. The trees tend to obscure it a bit, but I can't see any evidence of a stand or even of the Howden End. One stand burned down in 1950 so this may be before the next one was built. On the other hand it may be before the original one was there. As I recollect the houses visible in MacLennan Crescent and down the Ferry may be early 1930s so might the date be between then and the building of the original stand at some point before 1950?

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As per opening post these and many, many more are regularly posted via Facebook although under Inverness when I was a kid site

[Scarlet Pimple]

It's O K, IHE , I can wait for you to answer the questions.....

 

I, like Charles, am intrigued by the year of the first photo. And whether that was the Caley Stand that I watched burn from my mother's back bedroom window on Dunain Road in 1950--at the age of 12.--Looking iver the Howden's Nursery to the billowing smoke  but was unable to see any flames.?

[IBM]

All there is between the distillery and the railway line is Carse Farm and to the east is the Merkinch School and the old Telford Barracks I think, there are no flats or houses at Cornation Park or Benula Road.  I think the Prefabs as they were known were built after WW11 from Benula Road to the railway line now Wyvis Place and Wm Tawse yard was there from the early fifties.  The houses on Cameron road and Square and Carse Road are visible.