A new Stirling photographic puzzle

15/10/2012

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Alan Clater, one of our members, is eager to know where (and when) this picture was taken. He thinks it is around 1910 but has tried Trade Directories for Stirling for that period, without success. He had been told it might be on St Mary's Wynd but his own hunch is that it is the corner of Bank Street and Spittal Street, where the gardens are now.

I am pretty sure he is right as the slope is just right for that areThe site was still built on in 1953 (on the OS 25 inch map).

On the hunch that that is the right site, what about the Valuation Rolls, which you can access for free in Stirling Council Archives?

Even easier, if anyone remembers this shop, do please get in touch either by email ([email protected]) or by posting a comment in the space below.

Peter Klein

18/10/2012 04:04:20

Might this not be a picture of Patrick Doyle's grocery emporium at the Glebe, 30/32 Watson Street, Dundee? The shopfront is lettered: The Glebe Grocery Tea Wine and Spirit Stores, and the properties are certainly numbered 30 and 32. The site appears to be that on the corner of a steep turn on the south side of Watson Street, at the junction with Baffin Street, and seems to have been cleared for housing in recent times. Doyle was definitely listed there 1901 to 1911.

Alan Clater

18/10/2012 12:55:56

Thank you Peter ..... you have solved the puzzle I am sure of that. My source told me the shop was in St Mary's Wynd, Stirling .... together with this information and the photograph from the Dundee Community site, it is without doubt the same shop. I can now continue my search for family details. Thank you again.

Peter Klein

19/10/2012 06:10:13

Hello Alan ... I'm not sure from the more recent photograph which building was Doyle's shop. It's certainly not the one on the corner on the right, but it could be the building on the extreme left, just out of the frame. I note that Syd Boag has posted at least two photographs of the Watson Street area, so presumably may know the street well, and it could well be worthwhile contacting him, as he might be able to confirm all this.
Kind regards,

Stirling Local History Society

18/10/2012 12:31:09

Peter Klein, who posted the earlier suggestion about the Dundee location of this photo has now posted a link to a photo of this area of Dundee.
http://dundeecommunitypodcast.webs.com/apps/photos/photo?photoid=94939945.

He notes that today the area is almost unrecognisable.

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