Annan High Street - changes in shops down the years: Number 40

Please note that all dates are approximate.

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Looking towards the Town Hall, most old pictures of Annan High Street will feature Number 40 High Street with the name T & G Tweedie.

Further back along the High Street but the T&G Tweedie shop
still takes centre stage !

This photo from the early 1900's also shows Tweedie's being at Number 42.

Old letter headings and receipts describes T & G Tweedie Established 1856 as Manure Manufacturers, Bone Grinders, Agricultural Seedsmen and General merchants. They were also chemists, druggists and public analysts. The Mill and works were at the Well (Welldale) and offices on the High Street.

The motto De Mortuis Nil Nisi Bonum translates as
'Of the dead, nothing but good' which some would change to
'Don't speak ill of the dead' but for bone grinders perhaps,
'Nothing but good comes of the dead' ??

Below the word Annan you might notice N.B. - that stands for Northern Britain which is what Scotland was known as.

Before 1900 T&G Tweedie Manure Merchants

1955 Scottish Rural Gas - was founded in 1940s and supplied rural areas with gas for heating, lighting and cooking. They were taken over by Calor Gas in 1963

1957 Gretna Laundry Ltd

1974 Bradford & Bingley Building Society

2002 Annan Initiative

2003 Clip ICT

2009 Turning Point offices - Turning Point were a social care developer and provider.

2012 Annan Properties, Estate Agent

2016 Karizma, Barber

Old Photos.