Friday 18 June 2021

Number 65-67

 Please note that all dates are approximate.

If you have any further information, documents, photos or memories about this shop  let us know in the comments section at the bottom or on Annan The History Town Group Facebook page. 
If you click/tap on a photo it will enlarge that photo and give you the pictures as a slideshow. 

2021 © V. Russell

Note: Number 65 was the shop on the ground floor while Number 67 was upstairs and was used as a photographic studio for many years.

1901 Jane Armstrong, Milliner

1902 D Watt Directory

Number 67 
1908 JJ Brown, Photographer 
He was here until the 1920's.

1908 Annandale Observer

1911 Annandale Observer

1914 J Young, Confectioner  

Mystery:  J&D Johnstone, Tailor?

Mystery:  H Crofts, tailor?  

1925 Frederick Gibbs  
At this time FG Gibbs was also in his Studio upstairs in Number 67

Frederick Gerald Gibbs was born in 1888 and was a professional photographer. He was conscripted in 1916 and was sent to the Western Front as a sapper in the Royal Engineers. He was invalided home because of a knee injury in 1919 and died in 1940. Annan Museum has a collection of his WWI photos also found online here

1920's Queen of the Border Annandale Observer

Thanks to Alan Gibbs

1935 RoM

1931  MB Fleming, Butcher

1930's photo in RoM 1994

1949 RoM

1968 RoM

1974 JW Fawcett, butcher

1974 RoM

1991 Glendinning, Butcher

1991 RoM

1992 Upper Crust  
This was a chain of shops selling baguette sandwiches.

1993 Margaret's shoes

1993 RoM

1997 Scott Maxwell, Fruit & veg

1998 Solway Office Supplies

1998 RoM

2016  Annan Dough,  sandwich bar S McLeod?

2020 Commonwealth Tea Room

© V. Russell

2021 European Mini Market




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