Inverness - Above street level.

[Second Row]

A couple of easy ones to start the week........

[Charles Bannerman]

13 hours ago, dougiedanger said:

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.

Had that comment been made rather more appropriately in the Serious Topics section, I would POSSIBLY have been tempted to point out the multiple historical fatuities of its final sentence.

Edited February 13, 2017 by Charles Bannerman

[IBM]

11 hours ago, Second Row said:

A couple of easy ones to start the week........

The second one is the east side of Drummond Street, not sure about the first I think it is a ground floor window as you would not usually have the telephone cables running above a second floor window.

[Second Row]

"It may be prudent to look for this building on the approaches to the River".

 

@IBM.........Aye....Drummond Street it is.......

 

[IBM]

The old Prudential offices above Hector Russell Kiltmakers.

[Second Row]

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[+DoofersDad]

I'm surprised nobody has been able to name any of the pedestrians yet!

Edited February 13, 2017 by DoofersDad

[Charles Bannerman]

10 minutes ago, DoofersDad said:

I'm surprised nobody has been able to name any of the pedestrians yet!

I'm actually wondering if the lady on the right in the Drummond St pic is a Betty Munro my mother used to know?!

[IBM]

4 minutes ago, Charles Bannerman said:

I'm actually wondering if the lady on the right in the Drummond St pic is a Betty Munro my mother used to know?!

No that's not Betty Munro.

[Charles Bannerman]

1 hour ago, IBM said:

No that's not Betty Munro.

A different Betty Munro maybe? There were possibly several.

[Second Row]

7 hours ago, Charles Bannerman said:

I'm actually wondering if the lady on the right in the Drummond St pic is a Betty Munro my mother used to know?!

 

7 hours ago, IBM said:

No that's not Betty Munro.

Now you two have drawn my attention to her........did that lady work in the Council Offices?

[+snorbens_caleyman]

23 hours ago, Second Row said:

Maybe I should have recognised that.  The second window along - the one past the streetlight - was my mother's office when she worked at Macandrew & Jenkins, the solicitors.

In my defence, I was more familiar with the view from that window.  Onto an interesting shop called Toyland, on the corner of Drummond Steet and Baron Taylors Street.

[Charles Bannerman]

2 hours ago, snorbens_caleyman said:

  Onto an interesting shop called Toyland, on the corner of Drummond Steet and Baron Taylors Street.

Now there was a place! A kids' Mecca in the 60s... an era when, pre-November 5th, a 10 year old could go into Toyland with half a crown and emerge with all manner of highly dangerous pyrotechnics in a brown paper bag!

[IBM]

4 hours ago, Second Row said:

 

Now you two have drawn my attention to her........did that lady work in the Council Offices?

I don't know and was just winding up CB when I said she wasn't Betty Munro 

[Second Row]

I thought I would just finish this sequence of photos of our Town centre with a few straightforward shots.(November 4 1981)

Union Street.

 

Corner of Academy Street and Union Street.

 

 

 

[IBM]

How things have changed since then but its good to look back at your old photos I just hope you have more to share. 

[+snorbens_caleyman]

I don't think I'd ever noticed those chimneys on top of the Norwich Union!

Many thanks for posting these photographs, Second Row - they are excellent. A great demonstration of how black-and-white can capture and display all the detail, without the "distraction" of colour.