Moving to Torvean ?

[Alex MacLeod]

One or two interesting pics here http://www.ambaile.org.uk/en/item/item_photograph.jsp?item_id=10269

[Charles Bannerman]

One or two interesting pics here http://www.ambaile.org.uk/en/item/item_photograph.jsp?item_id=10269

The structure bottom left of that picture certainly seems to be what was known to locals as the "gasometer". The exterior was wooden slats, I think painted grey for much of the time I recollect it, and I do also seem to recollect that it was demolished in the second half of the 60s.

[RiG]

Alex - isn't the structure in your picture the one you see close to Millburn Road? If so I am not sure that it is the same one as in IHE picture which, using the surrounding structures as a guide (the railway line going up along Innes Street for example), would place it somewhere in the area around Innes Street / Rose Street car park. Did it move over time?

 

OT but is there anywhere online where you can get old pictures of Inverness?

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Go to the two Facebook pages - Inverness then and now - Inverness when you were a kid.

You can get delights such as what we used to play in the 60's when there was no Sky or gadgetry.

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Or how we used to get to Mannies hoose in South Kessock fer amn early door pre match swally ?!

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Or the place to go if you were posh enuff to have a record player.

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Or if Gringo's Dad had started travelling to games.

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Or if there were piccies of supporters and families on Over the bridge.

[Charles Bannerman]

Alex - isn't the structure in your picture the one you see close to Millburn Road? If so I am not sure that it is the same one as in IHE picture which, using the surrounding structures as a guide (the railway line going up along Innes Street for example), would place it somewhere in the area around Innes Street / Rose Street car park. Did it move over time?

 

OT but is there anywhere online where you can get old pictures of Inverness?

No I am pretty sure that is the old Gasometer roughly where Fraser and Sons' gravestone dept is now behind what used to be Andersons the Bakers and now Blythswood. Gas distribution moved to Millburn Road during the 60s - apparently 1966 according to the blurb with that photo.

What we are looking at here is coal gas generation where coal was heated to a high temperature and produced a number of things including coal gas which was principally a mixture of carbon monoxide (which was why the gas oven used to be a classic suicide option in the old days), hydrogen and methane. It left behind coke which had a number of industrial and domestic uses.

Round about the late 60s we switched to North Sea Gas which is principally methane and that's what was - and I think still is - distributed from the container off Millburn Road.

 

As Diggar MacGillivray said at a meeting about local energy supply "I'm all gas".... and everybody fell about laughing!

[IBM]

Or the place to go if you were posh enuff to have a record player.

Spent a lot of my wages in that shop!

[Ronaldo]

me too

[+Fraz]

What's a Record?

[+bughtmaster]

What's a Record?

 

Going one day without a post from IHE..........

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[Alex MacLeod]

Is that the motto of Inverness planning committee?