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A high spring tide at the Ness Bank Church, we shouldn't see that again when they finally finish the flood barriers!

The game will be off this weekend then!

The Wick herring fleet at a time when 500 gallons of whisky a day was consumed!

The old Post Office and Telephone Exchange on Queensgate which would have been demolished in the early sixties to make way for the building that is now the Modern Post Office!

Great viewing, good luck Billy whatever you decide to do!

Back to Laurel Avenue looking north from the roundabout. There was a young guy lived in No9 away down on the right hand side in the late 70's who had a Flame Orange Mk3 Cortina 2000GT

I do remember Brown Brothers but not having a cycle department though. Another fine structure in it's day!

Not got a clue on this one IHE and you can't even see out the window to see if there is a car outside!

That is the cars getting in again IHE will be pleased

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!