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That is an oldie IHE it is the corner of Church Street and Queensgate the ground floor is now a hairdressers but the buildings on the right were long before the Clydesdale Bank!

That's my old school the High School that was the art and music huts! When I was there they raised the school leaving age to 16. My birthday was in May so I left in the summer but some in my class with birthdays after September had to stay on till Christmas even if they had a job!

I worked for them but not back in that days! For 6 months in 1973 in the furniture & electrical department in Academy Street wages £10 per week, paid 57p NI & no tax! Was promised a bonus on sales after 3 months but never got it from the shop manager so moved on! One senior manager who was based in the Fraser Street office was a Malcolm Chalmers was a real gent and still stays in Lochardil .

I used to call into the Glen Bar on the way out at weekends, I don't remember the barman's name but he used to go wild and threaten to ban whoever put it on when One day at a time by Lena Martell was played on the juke box! I would put my 10p in select the song when it came on wait for the reaction and quietly finish my drink and slip out the door

Date IBM? Early 60s? The copper on the right actually looks quite like Sgt Merton from Heartbeat! Cracking picture Tichy! Could be late 50's or early 60's, the 2 on the left are Vauxhall Cresta's a cracking car in its day (with a bench seat in the front & column gear change you could easy seat 3 in the front!) and the one on the right a Vauxhall Victor, both in production from 1957 to 1961-62.

Eureka IBM! That's jogged my memory. I remember Lows on the corner of Bridge St (where I believe Sandy Grant may have worked as a butcher in a previous incarnation) and getting a particularly bad bottle of Spanish wine there which made me quite sick at a party. PS - you know something... I think the main contributors to this thread should recruit Old Caley Girl as a latter day Nora Batty and wander, misbehaving, round the streets of Inverness to the nostalgic strains of a harmonica! I don't remember a Sandy Grant but I only worked there 2 years and it was a long time ago! Come on Charles a bad wine was it not too much wine that made you sick

Was it really as early as the 70s? That means it can't have occupied that site for much more than 10 years but it felt like longer than that. Did Liptons then move to the current Tesco Metro site when that was developed after Rossleigh's Garage disappeared? The photo must have been taken before the Library moved to Farraline Park but I'm not 100% sure when that was. Certainly it would have been after Eden Court opened in 197?6 because the former Farraline Park School (of which my dad was Dux in 1932) housed the Arts Centre for as long as that was the only theatre Inverness had. The only other observation I would make is that the bird crossing the road seems to have pretty fat legs (or has being allowed to say that been banned since that photo was taken?) I will claim freedom of speech on the grounds that, after all..... "Je suis Charlie"! Yes Charles I worked in WM Low which was across the road on the corner beside the river 1972-73 and I am sure it was closed then with Low's being the largest supermarket in the town then getting 2 artic deliveries a week plus fresh foods! It was Low's that moved to the Rossleigh site I think the early 80's and was then taken over by Tesco.

It is outside Melvins on Union Street, must have been on loan to Highland from Eastern Scottish.

That's Inverness Castle and Flora but I don't know where

That's better now you have the Premier Inn and The Kitchen.

From Ord Hill looks good, I always get a great feeling after been away and coming over Drumossie brae and seeing the lights of home.

I will keep a lookout for you I will be wearing an ICT hat and scarf

A standard 10 coming up the very steep slipway with an Austin 10 (I think) on the ferry in post 86. Commer minibus which were still being produced well into the 70's, British Telecom had them including the vans and a hightop version that was not very stable!

I had a Nicol's anorak! Many years ago Nicol senior put a bag of money on the roof of his van and drove off, think it was 2 grand, cant remember if it was ever found!

That's an old one IHE! We now have the Premier Inn and the Kitchen Restaurant where the Palace Bingo was and the building to the left Good one of the Jacobite Queen.

Triumph Herald with an Austin or Morris 11 or 13 hundred behind. They were the panda cars when I moved into Inverness in 1968 they were light blue with white doors. I don't remember Lipton off sales up stairs but I was just a boy then! Clydesdale TV was there for a long time, the Army Careers is now for all Armed Services and Lipton supermarket closed in the 70's.

No works do but a few weddings including my own in 1982 and my sons in 2012. No Ford Popular or Sunbeam Talbot for our wedding we had a Bentley.

Yes cherry island is very small Charles, I was just being smart as there is an island on Loch Ness. It is time IHE told us where it was or he might not know!

You need to get Superfast Broadband

She would have been practicing for the dancing in Kyle

The old Strome Ferry, looks a bit risky with that bus on it!

It has all been said , just delighted and looking forward to the game next week.

I think the majority of the people in Inverness think the same Scotty but our elected councilors know better! these animations show how they hope to keep things flowing .... still think a raised bridge or a tunnel would have been the way to go ....

There is no room on the ferry

Cherry Island on Loch Ness.