Where did you grow up >

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The Square, Craig Dunain

[Charles Bannerman]

4 hours ago, IMMORTAL HOWDEN ENDER said:

The Square, Craig Dunain

It's where you grew up that you're meant to tell us - not your nickname as a kid!

I lived briefly in Kenneth Street before St Andrew Drive, Dalneigh from 1958-72.

 

[Potandbrush]

South Drive for short while, then Duncraig st,  then lilac grove from 1958-1975.

[Charles Bannerman]

1 hour ago, Potandbrush said:

lilac grove from 1958-1975.

The Foxes, Dyces, Stevens, Ledinghams and Cuthberts plus Charlie MacRae the Town Officer all come to mind! (Although all largely down at the low or lowish numbers.)

[SMEE]

First 8 years of my life i lived in Birnie Terrace (1970 - Jan 1979)

Then moved to Caledonian Road and saw out my childhood.

[Potandbrush]

Dalneigh boys coming to the fore eh Charlie !

[+dumpmaster]

Another Dalneigh boy here....Dunain Road till I was 4 then Hawthorn Drive for my School and College years 

 

[dougiedanger]

8 hours ago, SMEE said:

First 8 years of my life i lived in Birnie Terrace (1970 - Jan 1979)

Then moved to Caledonian Road and saw out my childhood.

What number on Caley Road, smee?

[Scotty]

Hawthorn Drive for me .... passed by SMEE's house every day

[Charles Bannerman]

1 hour ago, Scotty said:

Hawthorn Drive for me .... passed by SMEE's house every day

Did you go past it as fast as we went past the top of Laurel Avenue on our way home?

[Scotty]

nahh, SMEE and his family were good. We know each other.  Over the years  there were some parts of Caley Rd and Laurel Avenue that caused a quickened step but for the most part us Dalneigh boys were civilised  

[Tob]

Rose Street multi-storey car park!

[IBM]

1963-1968 The Riggs, Fort Augustus, 1968-1972 Benula Road, 1972-1978 Glendoe Terrace.

[+snorbens_caleyman]

14 hours ago, Tob said:

Rose Street multi-storey car park!

We might have been near neighbours, Tob.  I reckon I was in the supermarket car park, just off the spur road between the roundabout and the multi-storey. The top of George Street, as it then was.

That was 1956-1960 or 61. From then till 78, in a flat in what was formerly the Highland Orphanage on Culduthel Road.

[Tob]

5 hours ago, snorbens_caleyman said:

We might have been near neighbours, Tob.  I reckon I was in the supermarket car park, just off the spur road between the roundabout and the multi-storey. The top of George Street, as it then was.

That was 1956-1960 or 61. From then till 78, in a flat in what was formerly the Highland Orphanage on Culduthel Road.

I was in this block of flats, but on the opposite side from you overlooking the temporary (15 years!) police station and the Inverness Motor Company. We got our marching orders when they decided to knock it down to make way for the multi-storey. Think that was about 72/73. 

[+snorbens_caleyman]

Thanks, Tob.  I've seen that photograph before, but I've only just realised that it includes a window from our flat at the top of George Street.

Between the car facing the camera (a Hillman? Humber? where's IBM when you need him?) and the Old High church steeple, the windows on the second floor of the building with its own little spire were in our living room. (No one called it a lounge back then.)  I think the room also had windows directly onto both Rose Street and George Street - thus making it what would nowadays be called a "double-aspect" room.

I think that the Esso garage further down Rose Street must be Robertson's Garage. We were (are!) related to the Robertsons - but of course many of the folk around George Street, Innes Street and the Shore were related to each other.

[Tob]

I'm thinking the car might be a Ford Zephyr mark 1? That's a lovely looking flat in a great location you lived in. Shame all this had to go as it was an interesting and beautiful part of the town. Certainly can't say the same for what's there now. Rose St Hall next for the chop.

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Number 2 The Square, last house in front of Bowling Green which was originally our garden and a wee footy pitch. Still standing - just !!

[dougiedanger]

Who lived in the fancier hooses just up the hill IHE, on the road that goes up by the golf course?

[IBM]

8 hours ago, Tob said:

I was in this block of flats, but on the opposite side from you overlooking the temporary (15 years!) police station and the Inverness Motor Company. We got our marching orders when they decided to knock it down to make way for the multi-storey. Think that was about 72/73. 

The car facing is a Humber Hawk Mk 5 or 6, cant make out the other two.  I remember the house on the right with the railings had an aviarie with parrots.

[Scarlet Pimple]

That looks like a very nice spot where you lived, one with a view too. Seems like you were very lucky to live in the fresher air up there?.

Was it accompanied  by fresh country butter as well?

[Caley Mad In Berks]

My earliest address was in Smithton but I can scarcely remember it.  Except for catching Jimmy's bus from Faraline park to get home again if I went into town with my Mum.  Then it was a few addresses on Island Bank Road (including the Islands Hotel and a couple of nursing homes) where my Dad was Head Gardener, and we lived in whatever 'tied' accommodation was provided.  Finally we got a council house in Hilton (Dell Road) where I lived for my last year at the Crown School and all through my Academy days.

[Whippet]

19 hours ago, IBM said:

The car facing is a Humber Hawk Mk 5 or 6, cant make out the other two.  I remember the house on the right with the railings had an aviarie with parrots.

I just could not figure out where that photo was taken from until you mentioned the parrots. So (out of shot) Burnetts to the right, old Highland Bus depot to the left. God I'm getting old. 

Edited July 20, 2016 by Whippet

[+snorbens_caleyman]

36 minutes ago, Whippet said:

I just could not figure out where that photo was taken from until you mentioned the parrots. So (out of shot) Burnetts to the right, old Highland Bus depot to the left. God I'm getting old. 

It's taken from the bridge over the railway - but I seem to remember it as being more hump-backed than that photo suggests. 

Just a couple of weeks ago, when I was in Inverness, I was talking with my uncle about our old flat at the top of George Street - he moved into it when we moved out. He said that it was fascinating to stand at the window in the flat, watching traffic struggling to get safely across the bridge when it was very icy.