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An Aerial view of the Town
There are some interesting details but it will be noticed that there is no sign of the fencing highlighted in picture #328. Perhaps this will help to date this picture.
Picture Added on 13 May 2004.
Comments
There was a YMCA at the top of Outram Street on the left. I think I'm right in saying it was burned down in c1978 although I think it was called the Grange then and was used by different groups in the town.
Donald Clark who helps out at the museum told me that there was a fire station (not pictured) behind the old locality office (now flats - the first tall building you come to going up on the right of the High Street. Also, just to the right of Outram Street near the water in the picture there was Invergordon Mart. The tall chimney at the bottom of the picture was part of a bottle factory - does anyone know the name of it? There's a choice of three - Johnston's, Mackintosh's, or the Invergordon Aerated Water Works - the three lemonade factories that existed in Invergordon in the early 1900s.
Added by Robert from the museum on 15 September 2004.
Donald Clark who helps out at the museum told me that there was a fire station (not pictured) behind the old locality office (now flats - the first tall building you come to going up on the right of the High Street. Also, just to the right of Outram Street near the water in the picture there was Invergordon Mart. The tall chimney at the bottom of the picture was part of a bottle factory - does anyone know the name of it? There's a choice of three - Johnston's, Mackintosh's, or the Invergordon Aerated Water Works - the three lemonade factories that existed in Invergordon in the early 1900s.
Added by Robert from the museum on 15 September 2004.
You're right to say that there are interesting details to be seen in this picture. It is almost certain that the Admiralty Pier was constucted to deliver the fuel in the tank farms to the large warships which, when berthed at the end of the pier, would be in the deep channel that is a feature of the Firth. Since the pier is very much in evidence and the tank farm is not, it is safe to assume that this picture probably dates around 1912, just before the tank farm was constructed in 1913 - 14.
It is also interesting to note that the Ordnance Survey map of 1880 shows the shoreline from the east pier of the 'West Harbour' to the point at the top of the picture (off Oakes Cottages as they are now known) following a quite different line. It is clear that land was reclaimed from the sea, evidenced by the straightness of the present shoreline. The 1880 map shows the shoreline following the line of the railway, forming a gentle 'S' past the buildings which were once on the foreshore.
Added by Malcolm McKean on 16 September 2004.
It is also interesting to note that the Ordnance Survey map of 1880 shows the shoreline from the east pier of the 'West Harbour' to the point at the top of the picture (off Oakes Cottages as they are now known) following a quite different line. It is clear that land was reclaimed from the sea, evidenced by the straightness of the present shoreline. The 1880 map shows the shoreline following the line of the railway, forming a gentle 'S' past the buildings which were once on the foreshore.
Added by Malcolm McKean on 16 September 2004.
This is indeed a pre 1st world war picture....before the houses that were on the south west end of Outram St. there was stockyards which can be seen in this picture....the YMCA building was east of King St and took up the whole block between Outram and Clyde St. and yes there was a firehall on Clyde St just west of Bank St, when I was there David Boddell was the fire chief...
Added by Harry O'Neill on 02 October 2004.
Added by Harry O'Neill on 02 October 2004.
Harry, the David Boddell you mentioned - in which year, roughly, was this? And was it this Boddell that had a grocery van?
Added by Robert Goodwin on 03 October 2004.
Added by Robert Goodwin on 03 October 2004.
Robert, David or Davey Boddell would have been chief around 1956-ish..He was son of Boddell who had the grocery store on King Street that was next to Ben Dalgarno and Sons butcher shop...grocery van I don't recollect, only van that I remember was one that Jackie Rhynd had and Naxie Mckenzie had the other...
Added by Harry O'Neill on 04 October 2004.
Added by Harry O'Neill on 04 October 2004.
Robert, Yes memory coming back now, yes Bodells had a van, a small one, David may have driven it too...
Added by Harry O'Neill on 04 October 2004.
Added by Harry O'Neill on 04 October 2004.
I think Dalgarno's had a van too. Our dog came to recognise it 'cos he always got a bone.
Added by Brian Mckenzie on 04 October 2004.
Added by Brian Mckenzie on 04 October 2004.
Anyone out there remember pluckin chickens for old Ben Dalgarno, we didn't get paid much....just got covered in feathers, and scolded if we tore the skin....suffered a deduction there...
Added by Harry O'Neill on 04 October 2004.
Added by Harry O'Neill on 04 October 2004.
The long black object in the bottom right hand corner - would that be one of the naval target hulks minus the wooden net? If so it broke up into four pieces, two of which ended up below the old cement shed where my Father and Sandy Russell senior broke it up for firewood. Another section was the bit down from our house on Shore Road which had the long pole standing upon it. The other section ended up about 200 yards below the old coal yard.
Added by Doug Will on 30 November 2007.
Added by Doug Will on 30 November 2007.
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Added by Malcolm McKean on 15 September 2004.