Yes I can still remember the smell of the iron mongers what ever that smell was and you bought nails by the imperial pound. Was it not Sinclair Houston that worked in Mackays.
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The building in the foreground with the blue round the windows was Gunns Jewellers.
This is the only photograph I have of the shop, taken at the same time as the previous ones.
So if I understand you right the corner where the Road Closed sign sits is now the end of the one-way system round from Market Street onto High Street?
Sorry Sporran, the picture is glued to a card frame that on closer inspection (I never noticed this before) has "JOHNSTON - WICK AND THURSO wmbossed onto it. I canna mind a Johnston photo shop in Thurso or Wick, so does anyone else have a clue when ths shop closed?
Looking at the pic though, there is no sign of any building work around it for building the estate, so I would put it at the latest the 50s? Any advances?
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Since this thread first started, I've been looking for some old 'photos (that I saw on the web) of the Miller Institute, taken in 1863/64. I'm sure they were on the Miller Academy website, but recent checks found that the website had changed, by quite a bit!
The pics I was after are no longer there, but there are swathes and swathes of text describing the history of the building.
http://www.milleracademy-thurso.co.u...on_opening.htm
On that page are these two 'photos though. I find it amazing to see the only building beyond the Institute is the Castlegreen Manse!
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Wow, what a wonderful thread! In spite of modern technology, the most beautiful buildings in the world are those that were built centuries ago, imo.
Hmmm....
I seem to remember the detached building also, and Gunn's the jeweller was in it in 1972, possibly before. Could it be that after the cottages were demolished, a new building was built in the exact same location as the shop in the photos above?
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Well, the first part of the "Atomic" housing estate was built in the mid 50s, and that would have included the Sweyn Road houses later built left of the Viewfirth barn, as you're looking at your photo. I was wondering if your pic was taken prior to thirsaloon's 1940 photo of Viewfirth (which he posted on Bobinovich's Viewfirth coming down thread and Rheghead's Cairnie bottle thread). I have a feeling that your photo is from an earlier time.
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i enjoy seeing all the old and new pics keep them comming
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