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The Rope and Anchor sounds good!

T think it was Le Mans but might be wrong on that one.

It's not the Playhouse as I remember it, I thought you went up steps and I have never herd of Soldiers and Sailors Home in Inverness. The photo is from Baron Taylors St with the Imperial Bar on the left which was still called that until the late seventies. And the car may be a Triumph Mayflower

The top of Lower Kessock Street with Thornbush Road beyond the railway bridge and Hugh Jamieson's lorry turning on to Grant Street. In 1968 on the right was Davidsons the Grocer which was run by a pipe smoking man called Calum, just down a bit was K Junor another Grocer and very near that was Grant's Agriculture yard. That photo will be late 50's with the Ford Popular and the Albion behind but can't make out the name on it.

Vince Robb's Bon Accord, I remember the lorries going around the streets with about 10 kids hanging on the back going round the doors selling the lemonade!

That's an easy one IHE it's a red Ford Anglia

There is no front door there now and it looks like there is not much to the rear as now although you can see the archway over the lane to the right.

That's a clearer picture of them, no houses where Trafford Avenue is now.

Ah The Corries now that's better Front of late 50's Austin A40 Somerset, Ford Cortina, Morris Minor & Ford Prefect

Only the old prefab's in Cornation Park, Wyvis Place and Kilmuir Road, no Flats or other houses!

The old Station Hotel if that's what it was called with the station entrance to the left.

The folk's must have been easy pleased in them days

Alex, they are not Council owned buildings.

You are right Charles about the original part which was the new operator trunk control centre started in 1949 and was opened in 1952 by Provost James Grigor. The new STD exchange on Friars Lane was opened by Provost Alan Ross in 1961 serving 3500 customers. The original sandstone was recovered from a large house that was demolished out in the Kiltarlity area but I can't remember where. My late father delivered a lot of hardwood timber to the site when he drove for Wm Ogilvie Haulage contractor Evanton. The newer part down Friars Street which is connected by a walkway over the old graveyard was opened in 1980.

Learn to drive without anyone in the passenger seat I had never heard of that before, I notice the one in the picture had an L plate on the rear bumper but I think that would have been before your time driving. What a change to the machine you drive now mind you the A30 would be better in the snow than most of the modern cars we have now!

Charles, the car could be an A30 or A35 with the A35 being introduced in 1956 an updated version. The A40 was the Farina had a more square body and was introduced in 1958. I do remember the chipper getting chips on the way home to the Merkinch from the Army Cadets at Cameron Barracks.

Not much happening in that one, must have been taken on a Sunday morning when everyone was at church!

Another Gem IHE the same year I was born but a lot further from............Eastgate looking east from the top of Ingles St. The Leyland tanker (a big one for that time) appears to be waiting at the traffic lights with the ERF behind and the old Austin further along the street. Note the registrations on the Bedford Dormobile and the Ford Popular are both JST and no yellow lines means you can park your Austin A35 while you go to the shops!..............I will leave it to the older generations to identify the shops Fraser & McColl is the only one I know.

It reminds me of the Alice Brewery in Inverness 1983-88 which was delivered by horse and cart which was a bit of a publicity stunt. I am sure the horse was owned a Mr Ross but I cant remember his first name.

You are keeping us busy and our brains active!

....like potential oil revenues? Oddquine, we disagree fundamentally on the issue of separation but your verbosity is hardly a major vice and I am somewhat prone to it myself. Furthermore anyone who knows what a Pyrrhic victory is and can spell it correctly has my profound respect. However I am these days transferring my CTO allegiance to the Old Inverness threads where I am actually also finding a great deal of empathy with some of my former adversaries on this thread. It will soon be time to start another thread for the General Election which I think will be more interesting than the last one!

Oddquine you may find a connection to the Bannerman's

If you are right about the swimming pool Charles that will make it between 1936 & 1947 when the power station closed. You can see part of the old railway bridge that was washed away in 1989 and that is the Black Bridge Scarlet, it has always been grey since I moved into Inverness! Along Portland Place to the left of the Black Bridge was the old Cameron Club. To the left of the picture is the Free Church on Chapel St and the Pentecostal Church which was known as The Model at that time (I think it was a Poorhouse) both churches have no spires but missing in the space behind that is the Friars Lane Telephone Exchange which building started in 1958 and it opened in 1961. And no McMurry and Archibald on Chapel Street!