Why is Laurel Avenue a dual carriageway?

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[JockWatt]

Where's Jock ?  In 1940 something ?

"Happy Harry" was the (English) teacher !

 

 

Edited February 24, 2017 by JockWatt

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Nobody has got a beard ?!!

[JockWatt]

NOT THEN !!!

[Charles Bannerman]

On ‎2‎/‎24‎/‎2017 at 2:25 AM, JockWatt said:

Where's Jock ?  In 1940 something ?

"Happy Harry" was the (English) teacher !

 

 

That would be "Happy Harry" Henderson who's there second left. He ended up as head of English at the High School where this photo was presumably taken. I'm wondering what the structure at the back is? Could it possibly be a HORSA hut - Huts On the Raising of the School leaving Age..... to 15 post-war? These went up latish 40s but that could well already be a fairly aged building, in which case the time wouldn't fit. The kids certainly seem to be dressed in the "austerity clothing" of the wartime or immediately post-war years.

Edited February 26, 2017 by Charles Bannerman

[JockWatt]

Yes, Charles, but you haven't answered the question !

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Give us a feckin clue - did you wear a skirt in those days ?

[IBM]

17 hours ago, JockWatt said:

Yes, Charles, but you haven't answered the question !

Front row second left.

[JockWatt]

On ‎23‎/‎10‎/‎2016 at 11:44 PM, IMMORTAL HOWDEN ENDER said:

I got married in there in 1955 after scrubbing the floor (together with my mate Hamish) for the Youth Club's Friday night dances !

[JockWatt]

9 hours ago, IMMORTAL HOWDEN ENDER said:

Give us a feckin clue - did you wear a skirt in those days ?

Aye - for the Scottish Country dancing !

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[Charles Bannerman]

This is the construction of the pensioners' houses and the shopsbetween St Mungo and St Margarets in Dalneigh 1961/62. The structure in the foreground became Christison's shop. This is currrently trending on Inverness When You Were A Kid.