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 | Billy Winton |
 | 1930 |
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Bridge Street
Picture Added on 19 January 2005.
Comments
Yes, John, I well remember Dab and Flounder. As a boy, I lived in the house next door and my sister and were somewhat in fear of them. Their names were Messers Duncan and Fraser (hence Dab and Flounder), the nicknames coming from a comic strip duo in the Daily Express. They came from Fife (retired coal miners, I think) and were not very popular locally. Perhaps they were not as fierce as the impression their drooping moustaches and flat caps created!
When I lived in No.8 Bridge Street, our house was called "Holly Cottage", although the sculpted holly trees were no longer there (see my comments on No.15). A subsequent owner named the house "Fulmar Cottage".
The house has an interesting history. My grandfather John Denoon carried out his business as a butcher or "flesher" from there (see comment on No. 24). In the late 18th/19th century it hosted a drinking parlour and my great grandfather Donald Denoon is styled as "Inkeeper" on the family gravestone in Rosemarkie churchyard. The house is marked "PH" (public house) on the 1871 25inch OS map but not so on the 1906 edition.
Both the 1791-99 and 1834-45 Statistical Accounts for Scotland refer rather disparagingly to the "number of tippling houses" in Rosemarkie, lamenting that "they should be more limited". Obviously by 1906 they were!
Ian Basham
Added by Ian Basham on 22 March 2007.
When I lived in No.8 Bridge Street, our house was called "Holly Cottage", although the sculpted holly trees were no longer there (see my comments on No.15). A subsequent owner named the house "Fulmar Cottage".
The house has an interesting history. My grandfather John Denoon carried out his business as a butcher or "flesher" from there (see comment on No. 24). In the late 18th/19th century it hosted a drinking parlour and my great grandfather Donald Denoon is styled as "Inkeeper" on the family gravestone in Rosemarkie churchyard. The house is marked "PH" (public house) on the 1871 25inch OS map but not so on the 1906 edition.
Both the 1791-99 and 1834-45 Statistical Accounts for Scotland refer rather disparagingly to the "number of tippling houses" in Rosemarkie, lamenting that "they should be more limited". Obviously by 1906 they were!
Ian Basham
Added by Ian Basham on 22 March 2007.
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