Number 82

Please note all dates are approximate.

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2021 © V Russell

This building (82-82a )is a Category C Listed Building. Category C means it is of local importance.

The listing says 'Dated 1903. Inn .. 2 storeys with attic...3 bays at pilastered ground floor, round-arched near central doorway. Shop at left, public house right. Pilastered cross windows above, paired at first floor with pedimented heads and scrolled supports to wall-head dormers'

Statement of special interest: Rebuilt on the site of the original Buck Inn, said to date from 1700.

You can see the features on this photo from 2021.

If you look carefully where it says The Buck Inn it has the number 82A - this means the shop unit to the left is Number 82. However, these numbers often got used to mean the shop, the pub, the close and yard at the side and even the stabling not to mention the rooms upstairs. The Buck Close used to extend right back to Back Lady Street but when the new buildings down Lady Street (Carpet shop and Kiddies Soft Play) were built they cut back into the Buck Close.

Coopers & Co Grocers to the King, was established in 1871 but when they first came to Annan is unsure - they are first mentioned in Annan Trade Directories around 1906. Their adverts featured their high quality teas. They were incorporated into Fine Fare in 1955 but this store continued into the 1960s as Coopers whereas their shop at Numbers 104-106 was called Coopers Fine Fare.

The shop became a TV rental and sales and VIP Boutique for a few years before its many attempts at cafe, bakery and takeaway in many guises and names.

Old Photos

Year unknown courtesy A Latimer Old Annan Facebook page

Year unknown courtesy L Hermann

1906 Cooper & Co stores + Central garage

Memories: I remember hanging about in Cooper's doorway, admiring a panel of purple tiles with a flock of white geese walking, which were on the left of the door. In common with many other shops on the High Street Cooper's had an awning on a sprung roller which was pulled down every day with a long pole with a hook on the end. It had their name on it in very bold lettering.

Memories: The manageress was a Mrs Nance. The shop was the scene of two fires, once when Mrs Nance's cat knocked over a paraffin lamp and once later when it was a wool shop.

1965 Empty

1969 Tartan & Tweed

1973 Radio Doctor & VIP Boutique

1983 Oliver's Bakers

1985 The Lairds Kitchen

2003 Empty

2005 Mario's - Café Venue

2006 Benny’s upstairs

2018 Mario's

2019 Commonwealth Takeaway

Old Adverts