Object: Photo Archive Date: 20th century Description : Bridge Street in the 1960s (P03-2163, B11-14)
Victoria Street Rothesay, toast rack tram
Object: Photo Archive Date: 20th century Description : Victoria Street Rothesay, toast rack tram. (P12-0038, A6.243)
High Street, Rothesay late 1960s
Object: Photo Archive Date: 20th century Description : High Street, Rothesay late 1960s (P03-2375, B12.60)
Ladeside Street from Cuthills
Object: Photo Archive Date: 20th century Description : Ladeside Street from Cuthills (P10-0128, A11.130)
Montague St in the ’60s
Object: Photo Archive Date: 20th century Description: Montague Street in the early 1960s showing shops from the past including Woolworths, Coopers and Sheals. There are lots of people around but no cars even though this street was not pedestrians only....
View from Chapelhill House
Object:View from Chapelhill House Date: 19th century Description : This photograph was taken in 1872 and shows the coffer dam built to enable the draining of the land to reclaim the area to be used for the new Esplanade. The money was raised mostly from...
Castle Street
Object: Castle Street Date: 19th century Description : This photograph shows that there have not been many changes in the building in Castle Street though the steps outside the Burgh Buildings have disappeared. These were built at a cost of £4000 and housed the...
Port Bannatyne
Object: Port Bannatyne Date: 19th century Description : The photograph of Port Bannatyne was taken around 1878 and shows Marine Road before the construction of the sea wall. To the far left can be seen the spire of St Mary’s and the other church is St...
Montague Street
Object: Montague Street Date: 20th century Description : Montague Street is bedecked with flags and bunting to celebrate the relief of Ladysmith on the 1 March 1900, after a siege lasting 4 months, during the Boer War. This photograph is taken looking towards...
Floods in Rothesay
This photograph of Montague Street shows it underwater in the late 1960s/early 1970s. Note the entrance to the Norman Stewart Institute in the top left corner. The money to erect this building was gifted by Norman Stewart who though born in Rothesay had emigrated to...
Victoria Street
Victoria StreetThis is an early photograph of Victoria Street taken some time before 1869 prior the land to the seaward side being reclaimed to provide the land for the Esplanade and gardens. The funding was provided by George Stevenson, of Glen Caladh, (£500), the...
The Albert Memorial Fountain
The Albert Memorial Fountain was erected at the foot of Bishop Street in 1863 to commemorate the death of Prince Albert and was paid financed by public subscription. By the end of the 1940s due to an increase in vehicular traffic it was felt that the fountain was...