Numbers 111 - 113

                                         Please note that all dates are approximate.

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2021 © V. Russell

                                                      These began as 2 separate shops:- 

We think these plans from 1894 show No 111 High Street. The style of upper windows match although the windows on the roof have now been altered to skylights. The writing says they were for Mr McLean but didn't say an address !!

Enlargement of the plans above

                      

                111   (Star House)                    113

1900 DW McLean & Sons,          1900 Wm Ferguson Minto, 

Draper                                             Boot merchant, clothier

                                                                                                           

DW McLean c1900 Facebook 'Old Photos' 

early 1900's (1986 RoM)

1911 Annandale Observer

W&F Minto c 1905

1908 Annandale Observer

  

1911 Annandale Observer

Memories: An interview with Mrs Minto for the RoM magazine in 1995

I got engaged to Richard Minto when I was 19 and married 2 years later. Dick bought Minto Bros in 1915 and it was next to WF Minto, which had been in the family since 1888. Minto Bros was a draper's shop selling blankets, sheets, children's clothes, school uniforms, haberdashery & ladies' fashion. The shop closed in 1963.

1923 Minto Brothers took over No 111 but retained the W.F. Minto name at No 113

1925 RoM

  

1950 RoM

1957 RoM

Memories: Minto the drapers had a statue of a big white polar bear just inside the door.

1964 GJ McDowall & Co Ltd, Wool shop

 

1978 empty

1980 Bank of Scotland

1996 RoM