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  1. 22-Mar-09, 01:10 #821
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    Quote Originally Posted by plasticjock View Post
    Spotted this one on eBay...taken from high on St Peter's Church...an unusual angle. I think it's around the 1900's.
    There are no buildings as yet on the corner of East Church Street and Princes Street.
    The Pepsi Challenge said the picture house was built in 1922, but isn't that the war memorial in the pic so it would date the pic between 1918 and 1922?
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  2. 22-Mar-09, 17:42 #822
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    Its got to be before 1916 because thats when the post office was built.
    The memorial in the picture is one to Sir John Sinclair which was moved to the back of the square in front of the church.
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    Default Some adverts from the 50s and 60s...



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    Default Some more piccies.......

    From the 50's

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    Default Some more adverts from the 1950s...



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    Default Remember Tommy Jacobsen?

    Used to be at the funfairs on the Riverside. Died in 1973 at the age of 52.
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    Default Another picture from the 1950's

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    Default Old picture...possibly late 1920's

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    Came across this and it looks like there are no buildings to the east of the bridge, any one any idea when it would date from?
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    Quote Originally Posted by gleeber View Post
    Its got to be before 1916 because thats when the post office was built.
    The memorial in the picture is one to Sir John Sinclair which was moved to the back of the square in front of the church.

    The building that the Post Office is in was built before 1916. The date was added to the side of the building to show when they moved here from their previous location in Traill Street.

    A & M Fraser were the previous tenants.

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    Quote Originally Posted by LIZZ View Post


    Came across this and it looks like there are no buildings to the east of the bridge, any one any idea when it would date from?
    This photograph I think would date from 1887 onwards.
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    Thank you for the new items. I am just back after a week in Edinburgh and was delighted to see the photos, etc. My granny lived in a cottage (in old Wilson Street) over from Robert Dick's house. It was lovely to see the photo of the old street.
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    Thanks for posting the "new" photos plasticjock. I'd never seen that one of Robert Dick house before.
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    Quote Originally Posted by plasticjock View Post
    Funnily enough, I have a colour, framed picture of this in my house.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Buttercup View Post
    Thanks for posting the "new" photos plasticjock. I'd never seen that one of Robert Dick house before.
    Anybody spot the 'ghostly head' peering over the wall where it abuts the house?
    Probably just a simulacrum....whooo-hooo!!

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    Found this one on eBay....don't think it's been posted before.
    View of Thurso from Oldfield from the early twentieth-century I should think.
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