Fortrose & Rosemarkie Image Library

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	Billy Winton
	1950

Bridge Street

View looking up Bridge Street.
Picture Added on 19 January 2005.

Comments

Topiary was clearly a common hobby in the area at the time. picture #22 shows the same trees from a different angle.
Added by Garve Scott-Lodge on 20 January 2005.

Wasn't Rosemarkie a pretty little village, before the cars and car parking took over?
Added by Colin on 21 January 2005.

It still is a pretty village. I used to live there in the mid-late fifties, and still visit almost every
year.
Added by M.Dunnett on 06 August 2005.

my familly lived at 5 bridge street for many years my great grandad john patience was born ther
Added by Delia Simon on 04 November 2006.

The house with the ornamental holly trees (No.8) was, in fact, known as Holly Cottage before its present name of "Fulmar Cottage". Comparing this picture with No. 22, the trees are much more mature but actually they were no longer there in 1950, the date for this postcard. I am not sure when they were cut down. Family photos show they were there sometime during the war years but were certainly gone by 1949. My guess is that they were cut down after the death of my grandfather in 1942.
Ian Basham

Added by Ian Basham on 22 March 2007.

Wasn't the house at this end of the row on the right of the road the
TV and radio shop. Andrew (?) Laurie (Lawrie) (?)
Added by M.Dunnett on 27 August 2007.

Yes, Andrew set up his TV/radio business there after Mrs More ("Granny More") died in the late fifties. He moved there from the Lawrie family home he shared with his brother on the High Street - opposite the present Post Office. He was the first in Rosemarkie to have TV when the relay station opened at Learnie. He had to erect a very high mast for his aerial as the Craig blocked the signal. He used to invite his cronies in to watch TV in his workshop and we boys used to peer in the wee window at the corner - it cannot be seen in this photo.
Andrew was one of the prime movers in clearing the Mill Dam in the Fairy Glen and stocking it with fish (see John Corral's comments on picture #162)
Added by Ian Basham on 07 September 2007.

Yes indeed. I too used to look at the (425-line VHF) television through the wee
window.

Added by Murray on 21 January 2008.