Number 50

                                               Please note all dates are approximate. 

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1900    Annan Savings Bank - started up in 1835 and was at this location  next to Caldwells Ironmongery Warehouse. The bank office only opened a few hours each week. Around 1919 it moved to No 36 High Street and eventually No 28/30.

Thanks to Ron Taylor for use of this picture 

1920     Elliot & Reoch Painter & Decorators - Alexander Allan Reoch, son of Alexander Reoch, was born in 1894 and was a decorator in Annan - at one time in partnership with Mr. Elliott. By 1934 it is just Reoch name over the door

  

  

  

    

1942     Clark Taylor & Co, offices (lime works) later Caldronlea lime works.

1969     Empty

This building was later demolished with the rest of the block to build the 'new' police station in 1975.

Number 94

                                          Please note all dates are approximate. 

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1898 Albert Hotel. proprietor Matthew Richardson

1902 Albert Hotel, proprietor Mrs McGlasson & daughters.

Memories: After Government take-over it was never used as a pub again but was leased to Eskdale Creamery. There was just a narrow lane (no more than 6 feet wide) between it and Number 96, giving access to Gracie's Banking, until the creamery was demolished to make an entrance to the bus station.

1911 Annandale Observer

Thanks to Nicholson's at No 33 

1924-25 Eskdale Creamery

1980's RoM

1976 Offices Mitchell & Brown (1st & 2nd floor)

1979 empty

Demolished

Number 9

 Please note all dates are approximate. 

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© P&V Russell

The building including Numbers 5, 7 & 9 is a Category A Listed Building. Category A means it is of national importance.

The listing says 'Mid 18th century, large classical 3 storey house with basement. Alterations in late 19th century enlarging ground & first floor openings... Main central doorway approached by steps with iron railings, ... recessed panelled door with fanlight... sash windows with 12 pane glazing...'

Statement of special interest: Purchased by burgh council in 1790's and became the burgh academy... converted to dwelling house by one time Provost, James Little. 

1780   Bridge House was originally built as an inn, possibly the Queensberry Hotel, but was purchased  by the council in 1802 to house Annan Academy. 

1804/1805 Annan Academy opened and the first rector was William Dalgliesh

RoM 1990

Note the buildings to the left of Bridge House. These were demolished when a petrol station was built here, which itself was demolished for the extension of Port Street in the 1990's.

Annan Academy remained here until the council built a new school in Ednam Street in 1820. Thomas Carlyle, Victorian essayist, and Edward Irving, radical preacher, were both educated at the academy.

RoM 1985

Towards the end of the 20th century the building fell into disrepair, and was put on the "at risk" register. 

In the early 2000's the Friends of Annandale & Eskdale Museums came up with a plan to restore it to its former glory. They wanted to offer it for community use and build a museum for East Dumfriesshire, with a garden behind the house. It would offer rooms for meetings and for research into family, clan and emigration history. There would be a permanent display space for their collection of paintings and artefacts and room for temporary exhibions.

© A Wilkins

© A Wilkins

However this did not come to fruition and by 2004 D&G Council declared it surplus to requirements. 

2008  Bridge House was put on the market and bought by a developer who set to and restored the            building, using  traditional techniques and craftsmen.

It is now a private dwelling.