Then and Now

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[Charles Bannerman]

I sure walked up there a few times of a morning... in an era when it was more like the top photo!

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[IBM]

Lombard Street looking north, on the old photo the building being propped up either fell down or was demolished and unless the trees are removed from the one in the new photo it will start to fall down as well! 

[Second Row]

On 08/09/2016 at 0:05 AM, Charles Bannerman said:

I think it's meant to be in storage at the Highland Council roads depot at Diriebught - just a vague recollection though.

[IBM]

Another good photo I would say from about 1970 going by the cars the early Ford Escort at the front, Hillman Imp and Ford Anglia in the middle of car park.  The photo must have been taken from upstairs in the Station Hotel.

[+snorbens_caleyman]

I had assumed that this was taken at around the same time as the other one that Second Row published. Maybe even on the same day and/or roll of film - although this one is a bit sunnier.

When were the Hamilton Street and Eastgate buildings demolished?  How long did that site lie empty?

These are great pictures, Second Row.  Any more that you feel like posting will be greatly appreciated!

[Second Row]

22 hours ago, IBM said:

Another good photo I would say from about 1970 going by the cars the early Ford Escort at the front, Hillman Imp and Ford Anglia in the middle of car park.  The photo must have been taken from upstairs in the Station Hotel.

May 25 - 1978.

I took a series of photos of the Eastgate area using the Council's "cherry-picker". Not easy holding the camera steady whilst trying to control your nerves!

 

10 hours ago, snorbens_caleyman said:

I had assumed that this was taken at around the same time as the other one that Second Row published. Maybe even on the same day and/or roll of film - although this one is a bit sunnier.

When were the Hamilton Street and Eastgate buildings demolished?  How long did that site lie empty?

These are great pictures, Second Row.  Any more that you feel like posting will be greatly appreciated!

The first photo I posted, showing the Eastgate car park, was taken in May 1979.

I have earlier ones taken in January 1976 and then up to the Centre opening in 1983.

Here's one of Hamilton Street taken on February 9 1976.

[IBM]

That is a surprise the Ford Anglia would have been 11 years old in 1978  must have had a lot of welding done to pass an MOT!

I don't remember that buildings on the east side of Hamilton Street, were the ones in the picture demolished to make way for the new road out towards Millburn?

[Charles Bannerman]

4 hours ago, Second Row said:

May 25 - 1978.

I took a series of photos of the Eastgate area using the Council's "cherry-picker". Not easy holding the camera steady whilst trying to control your nerves!

 

The first photo I posted, showing the Eastgate car park, was taken in May 1979.

I have earlier ones taken in January 1976 and then up to the Centre opening in 1983.

Here's one of Hamilton Street taken on February 9 1976.

I'm just not getting this one at all. Where the woman is walking I think I'm seeing "Mitchells" (ironmonger's) or Mitchell and Craig which I think were indeed in Hamilton St. However it seems very wide for Hamilton St and I'm not sure how you could see a car park (Eastgate?) from Hamilton St. Are these buildings mid-right the beginnings of Millburn Rd? I'm just not getting a perspective here and can't see it as Hamilton St looking back towards Academy St either.

[IBM]

Charles that one is taken from the south end of Academy St with the buildings behind the car park being Eastgate as it is now and the Crown above, just out of shot to the right will be the Jacobite Booking Office shown in the other picture.

Second Row is getting us going here 

[Second Row]

Correct, IBM......here's the opposite side of Hamilton Street.

[Scarlet Pimple]

Wasn't Hamilton street the one just up from the Playhouse and parallel with the top end of Academy Street?

An earlier picture from IHE was one of Eastgate which showed a sign above a business which looked very much like the one on  the shop of K. J. MacKintosh, T.V. and radio dealers. The son of K.J.,    Dennis,    was married to my sister but no doubt that whole area has now been demolished and rebuilt by now?

Placing the old and the new side-by-side gives for an awesome perspective and reminder of the past. The cobblestones in Inverness have, no doubt, also all gone by now?

 

[Charles Bannerman]

12 hours ago, IBM said:

Charles that one is taken from the south end of Academy St with the buildings behind the car park being Eastgate as it is now and the Crown above, just out of shot to the right will be the Jacobite Booking Office shown in the other picture.

Second Row is getting us going here 

Thank you gents! I've got you now. What threw me was Eastgate and the Crown in the background. I thought that part of the photo was of further out Millburn Rd which messed up my angles and projected me to nearer Falcon Square. The photo seems to have been taken with the corner of the former Pet Shop at the photographer's left elbow, with the by then burned down Playhouse just behind him.

[IBM]

21 hours ago, Scarlet Pimple said:

Wasn't Hamilton street the one just up from the Playhouse and parallel with the top end of Academy Street?

That was it Scarlet you can see it in the recent photos added

An earlier picture from IHE was one of Eastgate which showed a sign above a business which looked very much like the one on  the shop of K. J. MacKintosh, T.V. and radio dealers. The son of K.J.,    Dennis,    was married to my sister but no doubt that whole area has now been demolished and rebuilt by now?

Mackintoshes shop in Eastgate was demolished and replaced if it's the one on the south side I am thinking about.  I remember Dennis Mackintosh although I did not know him, he used to drive a white Mercedes  and drink in the Beaufort Hotel in the late 70's

Placing the old and the new side-by-side gives for an awesome perspective and reminder of the past. The cobblestones in Inverness have, no doubt, also all gone by now?

There will be many cobbles still under the tarmac in some streets, William Tawse resurfaced the High Street about 1970 and they were tarred over then but were all removed the last time it was done.

 

 

[IBM]

Keep the photos coming Second Row although CB might steal them for his new book..........Against All Odds Vol 2 The Building of the Eastgate Centre 

[Charles Bannerman]

Do you not mean "Against All Odds Vol 2 - The Beating Of Elgin City"? (Please note that this intentionally frivolous comment was made 4 hours before KO at Borough Briggs!)

[Scarlet Pimple]

IBM thanks.  Good information that resonates with me. I don't remember cobble stones on High Street. That photo I mentioned was one looking East along Eastgate but D Mackintosh's T V shop is shown on the North (not the South) side. If the Beaufort hotel is up the hill, probably closer to Kingsmills, I think  that could be accurate about Dennis and I remember his car too. But that was a really long time ago.

 

[IBM]

1 hour ago, Scarlet Pimple said:

IBM thanks.  Good information that resonates with me. I don't remember cobble stones on High Street. That photo I mentioned was one looking East along Eastgate but D Mackintosh's T V shop is shown on the North (not the South) side.

I might be getting confused it would have been opposite Fraser & Maccolls not on the same side.

If the Beaufort hotel is up the hill, probably closer to Kingsmills, I think  that could be accurate about Dennis and I remember his car too. But that was a really long time ago.

The Beaufort Hotel is on Culduthel Road just up the hill from Castle Street, you are right it was a long time ago!

 

 

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[Scarlet Pimple]

IBM

Yes, Dennis and muy sister lived on Broom Drive so Culduthel road would (is?)have been  a direct route to there I think?