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Really enjoy this part of the forum as someone (just) old enough to remember the dead flies in the window of the Mayfair cafe...

Thought the following link might interest a few of the historically-minded among you:

national library of scotland link

Possibly even CB isn't old enough to remember Inverness in this incarnation! For a history of the town to this point, click on the "Background Information" box - written by yours truly in a previous life before I followed Charles into the teaching profession.

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Alternative... for someone who "followed" me into the teaching profession, you seem to have a better memory than I do, even though I may have been around a little longer. I recollect a Mayfair Cafe but I just can't remember where it was. Can you remind me?

I'm indeed not old enough to remember Inverness in the incarnation you show but it's quite fascinating to see these maps.

However the Ageist Comment of the Week has to come from another thread where one IHE is referred to as "the old man who got all the applause when he was escorted from the ground."

Wonderful!

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Charles,

The Mayfair cafe was on Eastgate at the bottom of Stephen's Brae - very close to Ronnie's chipper. Flaking orange and white paint and a multicoloured sign above the door, did a mean line in 99s. I was born in 1973 and it's a VERY distant memory, so I suspect it closed around '79 or '80 - possibly around the time they demolished the buildings at the foot of Crown Road and replaced them with that awful wall. It may well be that the Mayfair was a short-lived name and that it was better known as something else - as I say, it was only there for a short window in my memory.

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