Forfar Postcard - View to the North from the Steeple c 1900s
For detail, this is best viewed on 'All sizes', Large or even Original. A bit of wear and tear on the card - though the white patches in the East Greens are the genuine thing (washing hanging out). Compare this with another Flickr image showing the same view, but at a later date. How much later I don't know. The style of the card above is very 1900s. I'm sure Alik will be able to fill in many of the details....
For comparison with the other card, click on
www.flickr.com/photos/54996985@N00/3585079326/
As I knew he would, Alik Whyte, the toonie's historian, has sent me the following comments:
"(The photo above) shows the first of the Robertson Terrace houses – built
from 1896. It does not show the Yeomanry Hall, built 1911. It also shows
the scaffies’ yard, vacated after 1910 for the building of Simpson’s
Garage (1912), later Castle Motors, now Blackadders, solicitors.
The later photo (click on the link above) shows the extension to Simpson’s Garage (1919), but does not appear to show Hanick Terrace (1934).
Both photos show the ‘temple’ in the semi-circle formed in the dyke near
the foot of Victoria Street. The ‘temples’ in Forfar were urinals gifted
by Peter Reid and dotted throughout the town. There was one at the heid
ee Wynd, but removed before our time, and thus we were both denied the
pleasure of peeing there."
Forfar Postcard - View to the North from the Steeple c 1900s
For detail, this is best viewed on 'All sizes', Large or even Original. A bit of wear and tear on the card - though the white patches in the East Greens are the genuine thing (washing hanging out). Compare this with another Flickr image showing the same view, but at a later date. How much later I don't know. The style of the card above is very 1900s. I'm sure Alik will be able to fill in many of the details....
For comparison with the other card, click on
www.flickr.com/photos/54996985@N00/3585079326/
As I knew he would, Alik Whyte, the toonie's historian, has sent me the following comments:
"(The photo above) shows the first of the Robertson Terrace houses – built
from 1896. It does not show the Yeomanry Hall, built 1911. It also shows
the scaffies’ yard, vacated after 1910 for the building of Simpson’s
Garage (1912), later Castle Motors, now Blackadders, solicitors.
The later photo (click on the link above) shows the extension to Simpson’s Garage (1919), but does not appear to show Hanick Terrace (1934).
Both photos show the ‘temple’ in the semi-circle formed in the dyke near
the foot of Victoria Street. The ‘temples’ in Forfar were urinals gifted
by Peter Reid and dotted throughout the town. There was one at the heid
ee Wynd, but removed before our time, and thus we were both denied the
pleasure of peeing there."