Please note all dates are approximate.
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For a long time, in people's minds, this shop was DE shoes and back in 1890s there was a bootmaker George Graham in the shop with rooms above, followed by Robert Grieve Underwood but by 1904 William Smith took over as tenant but this was the name of the owner of the Dundee & Equitable Boot Company. This chain of stores was started in Dundee in 1867 and as the company grew they bought up premises around Scotland. By 1907 William Smith was the owner of the property. Old adverts show that a visiting dentist used rooms above the bootmakers belonging to Peter Crone. Now at this time Peter Crone was described as a Coach hirer in trade directories and had stables in Battery Street, 132 High Street and Bridgend but occupied the house in Poplar Court, seen in the photo above.
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1982 RoM carried this picture showing
Peter Henderson and his wife Mary outside the shop
sometime around the early 1940s |
Other shop managers were Colin Gordon, John Wallace, Guy Kyles (who opened his own shoe shop at number 103) and Agnes Burns.
Since 2000 the shop has hosted a sports shop, Annan TV, Jungle Vapes and now Macc Designs.
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| 1988 RoM showing a photo from 1958 festivities |
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| This photo downloaded from Colin Smith on Facebook is from 1982 |
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| 1999 RoM shows older festivities but DE shoes in the background |
1891 George Graham, Shoemaker
1902 R G Underwood, National Boot & Shoe Warehouse
1904 Dundee Equitable Boot Co (D E Shoes)
Memories: One of the former managers of the shop, Mr Henderson, was killed during the war when a bomb dropped on Gretna.
Memories: If you went into the shop you could be sure of a warm welcome from Kitty Kerr, the manageress.
2002 Knox Sports
2004 Empty
2005 Annan TV Rental
2013 Empty
2016 Jungle Vapes
2017 Empty
2019 Macc Design
Old Adverts
Dundee & Equitable's adverts below in 1908 and 1911 from newspaper archives that we've seen, were different almost every week with engravings of the current, fashionable shoes. It got us to wonder how the newspaper coped with producing new engravings so often. Talking to someone 'in the business', they said that a national company might have had the blocks made and distributed to shops and they would give these to the printers with their details being added to the bottom of the advert.
See what you think from this selection . . . . .
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| 1902 D Watt Guide |
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1904 D Watt Guide
showing a dentist visiting P Crone's above Dundee Equitable |
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| 1908 Annandale Observer - small ads targeting the Haaf Netters |
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| 1908 Annandale Observer |
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| 1908 Annandale Observer different styles |
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| 1908 Annandale Observer another new style |
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| 1908 Annandale Observer yet more styles |
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| 1908 Annandale Observer some ads had more details . . |
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1911 Annandale Observer . . now 45 years of service and trying a joke
'Stood the Test'
Their 1866 date doesn't match the firms history of Oct 1867 ?? |
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| 1911 Annandale Observer . . 'New and Catchy' |
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1911 Annandale Observer . . boots for men and full range of clogs
repairs as well ! |
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| 1935 RoM |
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| 1950 RoM |
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| 2000 RoM |
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| 2010 RoM before Annan TV moved to Number 57 |
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