Number 80

Please note all dates are approximate. 

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© V. Russell

This is a Category B Listed Building. Category B means it is of regional importance.

The listing says ' Circa 1840, altered 1985 and interior gutted... 2 storeys, 4-bay elevations, pilastered at ground. Architraved sash windows at first floor... parapet with guilloche ornament...' (see photo above)

This is where Annan's Telephone Exchange once was.

1900 W&R Underwood, ironmonger. A wide range of goods were available - including violin strings and Improved Pebble Spectacles (A.Blaylock, Annan Now & Then)

1904 Thomas Duff ironmonger

Memories: There were  four ironmongers in the town at this time who all kept a huge range of household, builder & farm ironmongery - nails, screws, bolts, hinges, locks, pans, pails, baths, fencing, barbed wire, netting, kitchen & garden tools, soap, candles, paraffin, fire lighters, gas mantles etc. However each shop had their own specialities – Duffs had a wide variety of things you couldn’t get easily anywhere else eg. violin strings, mangles, stoves or fire places.

1908 Annandale Observer

1908 Annandale Observer

1908 Annandale Observer

1908 Annandale Observer

RoM 1925

1930's Thanks to Ronald Taylor for this photo

RoM 1952

RoM 1953

In 1954 the agricultural engineering side of the business was taken over by Rickerby's of Carlisle. (A. Blaylock, Annan Now & Then)

1955 Thanks to V. Phillips

Audrey Latimer FB 'Old Annan'

Annan Museum

Memories: "In 1958 my mother rented a 14 inch Murphy television for 10shillings a week. To buy the tv outright cost £98." 

1983/4 empty,  under reconstruction.

1986 Clydesdale Bank. The Clydesdale was an independent bank formed in 1838. It was bought by the Midland Bank in 1920 and was part of the National Australia Bank Group. In 2016 it was divested from that group in 2018 the Clydesdale name was finally phased out.

RoM 1987

1988 Listed Building status: Circa 1840, altered 1985 and interior gutted. Corner building

with classical ornament. 2 storeys; 4-bay elevations, pilastered at ground, architraved sash windows at 1st floor

2007 empty

2009 William Hill 

William Hill had moved across the road  from Number 77-81.