Bridgend Number 1 - 3

Please note all dates are approximate. 

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2021© V. Russell

Confusion reigns over this site. There is a shop, house, warehouse, workshop and gardens that are sometimes grouped together but sometimes owned by separate people. It doesn't help when Bridgend is also applied to the even numbers 2 to 8. The small shop front to the left is 2 Port Street which only adds to any confusion.

As a Category B Listed Building it is described as 1 - 3 High Street and as having 3 Bays to Port Street with shop at ground level. Main entrance is on the North gable end which has 3 windows at 1st floor. Basement to rear. Category B means it is of regional importance.

Annan museum has artifacts for a Bryce Kerr, Saddler Bridgend Annan but census details tell us that he lived at 4 Battery Street but had shops in the 1890s at 17 and 44 High Street.

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1970 Queen of the Border showed this old shopfront from an earlier time.

Mystery: Any of these names or shops could be under the wrong number because very often they just said 'Bridgend'. In valuation Rolls it states that No 3 is the house and No 1 is the shop but in 1955 H Schoolar was in No3 according to Valuation Rolls but Betty Baird was there according to her ROM magazine advert. Was it split into 2 separate shops? Does anyone know??

Number 3                                                                Number 1

1902 G Cole, Gen Merchant                                   1906 John Thomson

1924 D & T, Hill grocer                                         1917  John Wood, Dairykeeper

1954 Betty Baird, Florist                                        1926  Gavin Wilson, Dairykeeper

1965 Radio Doctor & VIP Boutique                      1942 War Dept - offices

Mystery: 1978 H Ballantyne?                               1949 D Turnbull, fish & poultry

Mystery:1980 B Baker?                                        1951 S Snowdon, Fish & Fruit 

1985 Mr Glaister, Cycles                                        1955 H Schoolar, Fish & Poultry

1989 Adams, shooting supplies

1994  Hann & Co

2021 Hann & Co inc Hunters, Estate Agent

Memories:

"I remember a record shop. It was called Middle of the Road and I was a regular customer there."

"It was a bike shop in the 80s. I remember 'Huffy'  BMX bikes at this shop. You went in the door in the middle and there were bikes on either side with a passage between them towards the back of the shop"

Adverts

1902 D Watt guide

1908 Annandale Observer

1911 Annandale Observer

1935 ROM

1949 ROM

1951 ROM

1954 ROM

1967 ROM

1970s Queen of the Border guide

1972 ROM

Radio Doctor and VIP Boutique later moved to No 82 High Street

1987 ROM

2005 ROM

2021 Annandale Observer

2021 Hann & Co inc Hunter's Estate Agent

Founded in 1992 Hunter's are one of the largest independent networks of sales and lettings in the UK.