Number 18-22

                                             Please note all dates are approximate. 

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The Town Hall, as we know it now, was built in 1878 but the Council Offices are much more modern and several premises were demolished to make way for them. Number 24 (now Saint & Co) became the first shop in the row. 

Number 18 was recorded as a store with Number 20 as a house and 22 as a shop.

1902 John Irving, painter in shop at 22. 

1902 D Watt Directory

1904 D Watt Directory

1905 Although under the solicitor for the estate of  John Irving, John Peattie & Son are now the tenant in Number 22.

1995 RoM

1911 Annandale Observer (Number 20 was the house)

In 1911 the shop occupied by Peattie & Son was up for sale ...

1911 Annandale Observer

1914 YMCA (Young Men's Christian Association) were in Number 22.
The house at Number 20 is now empty.

1919 Valuation Rolls records a house & shop at 22 with WM J Irving in the shop.

1926 Wm J Irving became the proprietor of shop at Number 22 ( there is now no further mention of a separate house)

Memories: There used to be two 3-storey sandstone buildings on Battery Street beyond the old Town Hall that were used by Irvings as workshops and timber storage until they were demolished in 1978 to make way for the new Town Hall buildings.

1951 RoM

1962 William J Irving advertised as 18-24 High Street

1962 RoM

In 1976 WJ Irving & Sons were working in The Bruce after Alexander Irving bought it when State Management ended.

Courtesy of Dotty Irving

1978  Demolition began for new Council Offices, which were opened in 1980 with 3 storeys & 35 offices to accommodate Annandale & Eskdale District Council activities. Local government re-organisation in 1974 meant it now catered for Annan, Lockerbie, Moffat, Langholm, Lochmaben, Gretna & the rural areas in between.