Invergordon Image Library | Admiralty Terrace, Invergordon

	431
	Unknown
	1935

Admiralty Terrace, Invergordon

Saltburn Road, looking west. The road off to the right is Admiralty Terrace. The date is a guess.
The ship berthed at the Admiralty Pier is the same as that shown in picture #432.
Picture Added on 18 September 2004.

Comments

Admiralty Terrace has always been known as the Cottage Brae or the Distillery Brae. Never known it as Admiraltly Terrace. The cottages were also known as the Admiralty Cottages as they were built for the soldiers/sailors during the war. My family have lived there since the early seventies.
Added by Marina McCaughey nee Grant on 15 January 2005.

Admiralty Terrace are the houses along the Sea Front, the Cottage Brae is the hill leading up to the Admirality Cottages (The Cottages).
Added by anon on 15 January 2005.

You are correct Marina; it was always known as the Cottage Brae and led up to the Admiralty Cottages, or as they were known simply as the cottages...
Added by Harry O'Neill on 19 January 2005.

It looked so much more attractive then - the new scaffolding fencing doesn't do the seafront any justice does it?
Added by Jane on 22 January 2005.

My interpretation of the postcard would be that the seafront road, Saltburn Road, is what is being termed Admiralty Terrace. There is only just the wee bit in the lower right hand corner showing the "Cottage Brae" and nothing of the "cottages" in view in the actual picture. I always knew the cottages as "The Cottages" and the seafront houses were always termed as the "Admiralty Houses"
Added by Pat Swanson on 22 January 2005.

The houses in the picture were known as the terraces and up the brae as the cottages, both prefixed by some with Admiralty.
Added by anon on 23 January 2005.

Does anyone remember the shortcut from the Cottages to the High Street accessed from the Cottage Brae and exiting via the war memorial onto the High St, do not suppose it is there anymore?
Added by Harry O'Neill on 23 January 2005.

Harry, the footpath is very much there, running from what is now called the Distillery Brae to Seabank Road. It is tarmacked and lit - and is very popular with the youngsters going to and from school.
Added by Malcolm McKean on 23 January 2005.

My Grandfather (Alex Mackenzie, of High Street Butchers) and his brother built identical bungalows on Saltburn Road. One was called Bayview and the other was next door to the East. Prior to building their houses, they lived in temporary wooden houses to the rear.
Added by Norman Mackenzie on 13 March 2005.

The house beside Bayview is called Ferdene and was lived in by Jimmy Grant the butcher when we were children in Saltburn Road. We used to play behind Saltburn Road on what was called the Old Golf course. Catriona Sutherland had her horses there and there was an old stable at the top of Seabank Road for them. There used to be a few loose spars that gave us access into the tank farm there.
Added by Liz Adam (Askew) on 15 April 2005.

I believe that these houses were built for the officers associated with the Navy but when my father was QHM in the 1950s only three of them where still used as such. The one on the corner was occupied by the Revd McHardy of the Episcoplal Church. Then there was the Pilot's house Capt Garson, then I think the Chief Engineer, then the QHM house which had a high green fence round it. The next one had been sold of to MacGregor(?).
Added by James Elwin (son of Cmdr JA Elwin) on 30 September 2008.