Inverness - Above street level.

[Second Row]

[Second Row]

Here's a bit more of the building.......

[+DoofersDad]

That's not the Board room above the entrance to the old Royal Northern Infirmary is it?

[+snorbens_caleyman]

7 minutes ago, DoofersDad said:

That's not the Board room above the entrance to the old Royal Northern Infirmary is it?

No. I checked there five minutes ago! 

It's a tough one....  Blinds down, open window and the shadow at top left suggest somewhere that gets plenty of sun.  So not north-facing, but of course doesn't have to be facing due south.

Edited February 9, 2017 by snorbens_caleyman
additional thoughts

[Scotty]

Academy Street next to station square (opposite side of square from Station Hotel)

[+bughtmaster]

First time I have really had a good look at this thread  I looked into briefly on one occasion  but it seemed to be all about the Rats their teachers and the Rat Hole which was of little interest to me being a Techie.

Going back a page or two and seeing John Colliers I thought it was worth mentioning that it was Hips the tailors before that, might be wrong but I don't think so.

[Second Row]

Spot on!

The former offices of the Highland Railway Co., Academy Street.

[Second Row]

[Second Row]

Here's a wee bit more......

[+DoofersDad]

Tower hotel?

[Second Row]

Aye, well done.

[Second Row]

[IBM]

Lane from Lombard Street to High Street now the Hostel was part of the Highland Club.

[Second Row]

Spot on!

[Second Row]

[Second Row]

Time was on the side of this building until the demolition squad moved in!

[IBM]

2 hours ago, Second Row said:

Time was on the side of this building until the demolition squad moved in!

Struggling with this one even with the clue!

[Second Row]

[Second Row]

[IBM]

Would never have got that one I remember the shops but not the buildings.  Notice the woman in Pizzaland watching you taking the photo!

[Second Row]

Just now, IBM said:

Would never have got that one I remember the shops but not the buildings.  Notice the woman in Pizzaland watching you taking the photo!

......and the one, bottom left, wondering why I'm taking a photo of an old building!!!

[IBM]

21 hours ago, Second Row said:

6 Midmills Road, just along from the Crown Church and opposite your old school, not bad for a boy that went to the Merkinch and High School 

[Second Row]

Well, I have to take off my hat to you for finding an almost exact replica of the building I photographed!!

This is the one I photographed......Douglas Row, by the riverside.

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  .....and this is Midmills Road. Maybe the same architect designed both?

[Charles Bannerman]

31 minutes ago, Second Row said:

Well, I have to take off my hat to you for finding an almost exact replica of the building I photographed!!

This is the one I photographed......Douglas Row, by the riverside.

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  .....and this is Midmills Road. Maybe the same architect designed both?

A great deal of construction seems to have gone on in Inverness during the last two decades of the 19th century. If you look up in Tomnahurich/Young St you will actually see dates on buildings from the 1880s and 1890s. Similarly, much of the Crown is of that era. I think there's an 1880s date on a building at the Kingsmills shops and the Crown Church was 1893 whereas phase 1 of the "Old Academy" was 1895. Much of Kenneth St and lower Fairfield Rd have the same feel about them and it's interesting that Second Row has now added in Douglas Row which I hadn't thought about. The Greig St Bridge is, I THINK 1881 and the Town Hall is 1878. And is it 1893 for the Camerons' Memorial in Station Square?

I wonder what it would have been like to have left Inverness in, say, 1875 and returned in maybe 1900?

[dougiedanger]

I was reading Sarah Fraser's excellent book on the old Lord Lovat, and was reminded how the Sneck was 300 years ago a thriving port with close connections to the Baltic ports, Holland, etc., far more than with London. Also, that more than half of the population of the Scotland lived above the Highland Line, with the glens all around us relatively well populated.

Fast forward to 2017 and the place is a cultural, economic and environmental desert, a backwater scrambling to get by through tourism and supermarkets.

The union has been a complete disaster for the Highlands.