Then and Now

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[IBM]

That's what you call a train, the location of the old turntable is marked in the Morrisons car park with cobble stones.  If CB didn't know that he will be down looking tomorrow

[Charles Bannerman]

41 minutes ago, IBM said:

That's what you call a train, the location of the old turntable is marked in the Morrisons car park with cobble stones.  If CB didn't know that he will be down looking tomorrow

Yup.... well familiar with that one. I drive over these cobble stones daily heading for breakfast in Morrisons café.... hence almost as frequently as my grandfather who was an engine driver for the Highland Railway and then British Railways.

[jaggybonnet]

The engine is a Highland Railway 'Jones Goods' which, when introduced in 1894, was the most powerful loco in the country. They were withdrawn in the 1930s, so Charles your grandfather probably did drive one. One has been preserved and is on static display at the Riverside Museum in Glasgow.

[Charles Bannerman]

On ‎09‎/‎01‎/‎2016 at 10:37 AM, jaggybonnet said:

The engine is a Highland Railway 'Jones Goods' which, when introduced in 1894, was the most powerful loco in the country. They were withdrawn in the 1930s, so Charles your grandfather probably did drive one. One has been preserved and is on static display at the Riverside Museum in Glasgow.

If that is a Jones Goods then he did indeed drive one frequently, as would ex-Clach David Dowling's grandfather who was one of his fellow drivers, as was former player and Jags committee man "Butch" Sinclair who was a bit younger.

[IBM]

Here it is, not easy to get a good photo when it is so busy.

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[IBM]

Is that old fountain in the council yard with the rose window or did it go to Orkney with the Faith Hope and Charity?

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fer once not a lot of change 

[Charles Bannerman]

Except possibly for the cost of the rents!

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Spot the Difference

[IBM]

All the Aerials and dishes on the roof of the Telephone Exchange, someone has stolen the mini spires of the St Columba High Church...........will need to get CB on the case!

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I meant that it was strange that it looked so alike

[Charles Bannerman]

21 hours ago, IBM said:

21 hours ago, IBM said:

All the Aerials and dishes on the roof of the Telephone Exchange, someone has stolen the mini spires of the St Columba High Church...........will need to get CB on the case!

All the Aerials and dishes on the roof of the Telephone Exchange, someone has stolen the mini spires of the St Columba High Church...........will need to get CB on the case!

Must take a look. Maybe the stuff was removed from the church when it stopped being a church about 10years ago?

[IBM]

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I meant that it was strange that it looked so alike

You said spot the difference and that was the easy ones...........I left some for others

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[Charles Bannerman]

If I said that was a Hillman Minx in the older photo, IBM would probably tell me it's a Singer or a Sunbeam!

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[Charles Bannerman]

13 hours ago, IMMORTAL HOWDEN ENDER said:

Someone has done a very good job of taking the new photo at exactly the same spot as the old. It does remind us just how prominent a feature the old Methodist church and its rose window were.

[IBM]

I wonder if we will ever see the old rose window again!

[Charles Bannerman]

46 minutes ago, IBM said:

I wonder if we will ever see the old rose window again!

I think it's meant to be in storage at the Highland Council roads depot at Diriebught - just a vague recollection though.