Please note that all dates are approximate.
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The building containing numbers 66-68 is a category C Listed Building, Category C means it is of local importance.
The listing says 'Early 19th century, 2 storeys with modern shops at ground. 3 windows at first floor, the outer tripartite with small paned sashes'.
The listing says 'Early 19th century, 2 storeys with modern shops at ground. 3 windows at first floor, the outer tripartite with small paned sashes'.
This photo from 2021 shows those features.
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| © V. Russell |
This site has had a busy history but the occupants at the end of the 19th century wrote many guides to Annan and sold maps and knick-knacks for tourists.
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| Receipt heading 1911 |
1902 D Watt, Books, maps, guides, stationer
1918 R B Percy, Stationer
1929 Singer Sewing Machines
1935 Annan Fruit Stores, Florist
1962 The Garden Shop, Florist
1982 Capricorn, Ladies wear
1989 Caneworld,
1991 Forget-me-Not, Florist
2000 Galloway Carpets
2005 Woodland Designs, Gifts, soft furnishings, pine furniture
2012 DATS Blinds
2013 Country Toys
2016 Dunnabie Farm Shop Butcher
Old Adverts.
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| 1902 D Watt guide |
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| 1904 D Watt guide |
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| 1904 D Watt guide |
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| 1911 Annandale Observer |
The shop must have been very busy with tourists and locals alike. D Watt also ran a kiosk at Powfoot.
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| 1904 D Watt guide |
The site was also used by visiting dentists but used the room above the shop accessed from Fairfield Place - rumour also has it that there was a billiard hall around here.
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| 1902 D Watt guide |
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| 1904 D Watt guide |
Around 1919 although David Watt's son James had taken over the business and still owned the premises Robert B Percy becomes the tenant and R B Percy is the business listed in trade directories.
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| 1925 RoM |
By 1929 R.B. Percy had moved along the street to number 72 and Singer Sewing Machines took over number 68 until about 1935. Valuation Rolls and Trade directories for 1935/6 give different occupants but when do they get their information updated? Even RoM magazine appears to have the wrong address after the move along the High Street.
By 1938 John Murdoch is using the site for Annan Fruit Stores and florist up until 1962 when it becomes The Garden Shop run by Ian Dobie and later by Betty Baird.
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| 1952 RoM |
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| 1961 RoM |
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| 1962 RoM |
In the 1980s the shop was known as Carpicorn and later Caneworld before returning to a florists shop Forget-me-Not in 1991. Caneworld resurfaced further along the High Street in later years.
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| 1989 ©Valerie Phillips |
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| 1990 RoM |
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| 1991 RoM |
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| 1991 © Valerie Phillips |
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| 2000 RoM |
In 2002 Woodland Designs have moved in but different evidence points to them being at number 66. However, this advert shows they were there for some time.
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| 2008 RoM |
DATs Blinds and Country Toys spent a short time here but by 2016 Dunnabie Farm Shop moved from their place within Kwiksave and became the first Butchers shop on the North side of the High Street for a very long time.
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| 2016 RoM |
Bookseller - Watt D. & Son, 68 High street, Annan 1886
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