who rembers the"boaties"on the riverhttp://i169.photobucket.com/albums/u...nriver0064.jpg
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who rembers the"boaties"on the riverhttp://i169.photobucket.com/albums/u...nriver0064.jpg
picture house on left.http://i169.photobucket.com/albums/u...ew7/6e_1-1.jpg
Betty and Thirsoloon - both have submitted a picture of the Fountain foundations by the river, with 'Meredith Hotel' in the background.
That is now MacKay's Hotel, and at the corner of the street facing us is Ebenezer Street, recently said to be the shortest street in the country !
I suppose no more than 40 inches appx.
There will be a link to it here on caithness.org
Lavenderblue2 - I'm going to take a wild guess at this - so please correct me if I'm wrong.
I wondered about that building too, then found this snippet.....
"In the Market Place were the Stocks. Almost in front of it, close to the Cross of Wick, stood the town pump - a square stone erection - the centre of interest on special days when bonfires were lit. On the weekly Market Day, mutton was hung around it for sale, and thither buyers and sellers foregathered. The prisoners were said to play pranks on the worthy people assembling round the pump, by throwing out, through the prison window, strings with hooks attached which said hooks gripped the hats and wigs and sometimes the mutton, of the douce gentlemen attending the Market.."
by John Horne.
Could this be it? What do you think? I dont know when the picture was taken or when the square building was taken down.
I hope someone will enlighten us.
Trinkie
PS another wild thought - I think the prison was near the Tolbooth at that time. ..... Isn't that Tolbooth Lane running up from what is now Woolworths ?
The fountain on opening day.http://i169.photobucket.com/albums/u.../fountain1.jpg
http://i202.photobucket.com/albums/a...DGESTREETr.jpg
http://i202.photobucket.com/albums/a...DGESTREETr.jpg
Thats the end of my Wick photographs for just now folks, hope there was few that took your interest and different compared to the usual ones that are seen.
Thank you very much Thirsaloon, that really boosted the Wick photo section, now I hope some others will send in their favourites !
The last coloured photo you submitted - looking down Bridge Street, really tells a story seeing so many folk walking there. Nowadays with people in cars you seldom see them out walking in such numbers. At that time there would have been more 'Good Mornings' and raising of hats !
Trinkie
Sitting here - Luddite as I am - I wonder if someone would volunteer to put photos on the Thread for those of us who are not too sure about it - and in spite of numerous helpful instructions are still too thick to comprehend what you take to be a very simple task ? I speak for myself of course.
Thanking you in anticipation
Trinkie
I love this old photo too - there's something quite haunting about it. The youth of the children, in contrast to the age of the old soldier, the slight haze in the background. So sad that many soldiers found themselves in this situation after the Great War! Yet there's still a look of undefeated determination in the aged soldier's eye. I'm sure he had many a tale to tell!
The shorter handle below his left hand appears to say "2,000 miles" - the length of his proposed journey, I assume. I hope he made it as well, God bless him!
Very many thanks thirsaloon, absolutely super photos, an i would dearly like any more info on the featured fishing boat crew.
What happened to the francis street church?
I assume you mean the "West Church", which was on Francis Street between Dempster Street and Moray Street.
I know in my father's time (he was minister of the Central and West churches from about 1950 to 1967) the Central Church was used for the morning service, and the West Church for the evening service.
And the BB Bible Class was held in the West Church hall on Sunday mornings (at 10.15am). Sunday School in the Central at 11am, then Central Church at noon! Then possibly a service in a country hall. Then evening service in the West. Guess how often I go to church now?
I have seldom been back in Wick, but remember the shock at seeing the site of the West Church having been converted to a petrol station.
I think the last time I visited was with my parents for the dedication of the pipe organ in Pulteneytown Church, after the organ was moved from the Central Church following its sale to the Baptist Church.
These moves are typical of what is happening throughout Scotland, with the decline in church attendance.
The manse in Thurso Road where we stayed was actually the West Church manse, the Central manse having been sold and converted into the Queens hotel.
JimBews
Is this a photo from the west church.http://i169.photobucket.com/albums/u...w7/op.0017.jpg
I am posting this on behalf of Trinkie. LB
My grandfather was a Lay Preacher in the West Kirk and lived in the Manse around 1908.
Here he is sitting proudly with his Rechabite Group.
Trinkie
http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e3...biteGroupc.jpg
Nice to see the photo of my grandfather and great grandfather again!:)
Im not sure exactly when the West Church was pulled down but I know it was in the past 40 years. My bedroom in the house that I was brought up in, had the church's old floor lining the gable wall. My dad was always a bit of a recycler even back then and he was working on the site at the time it was pulled down and reclaimed the wood from the floor.
wick harbour in the "good old days".http://i169.photobucket.com/albums/u...w7/27maywh.jpgour in 50s.
the north side of the bay.http://i169.photobucket.com/albums/u...nklerscave.jpg
Fantastic photo south view 7 - I so envy you having one with an inscription. Is some of the writing cut off by photo framing? Can you give us the whole of it if it is?
Hmmm! :confused
Could it possibly be
"These are our forefathers
Don't smile at me & say alas poor ???Ferso???"
And I am sure the 3 B/W photos I found last week will be of a BB camp in the early 1950s. Very small photos, presumably contact prints from film from an old box camera.
See:
http://chemistry.st-andrews.ac.uk/st...slides/scan01/
JimBews
wick harbour1918http://i169.photobucket.com/albums/u...iew7/h0100.jpg
wick harbour in the 60s.http://i169.photobucket.com/albums/u...7/harbour5.jpg
Someone told me that the Nethercliffe Hotel has a lot of old photos on display. They mentioned that there were ones of Pulteney and the back streets. Does anyone have any to show on here? By the way thanks for all the photos, Im really enjoying looking back.