The staff of D.C. Murray’s shop in Montague Street John Kernaghan, Ian Jardine, Alistair Speirs, Elizabeth Speirs,unknown, Vera Cameron, Harry Thomson, Joe McNeil, Martin Gillies (P03-3448, B9.27) (Business)
Muir’s Bakery
Object: Photo Archive Date: 20th century Description : Muir’s Bakery This photograph shows the bakery behind Muir’s Bakery shop in High Street. The bread boards for distributing the bread and other produce can be seen stacked under the work bench. (P03-3559,...
Dobbie’s Catalogue
Object: Photo Archive Date: 19th century Description : Dobbie’s catalogue for 1895 showing spring bulbs available for that season (P11-0057, B85-081)
Lister’s Nursery
Object: Photo Archive Date: 20th century Description : Aerial view of Lister’s Nursery, Barone Road and Meadows Road showing prefabs (P20-0262, B12-131)
Lister’s Shop
Object: Photo Archive Date: 20th century Description : Lister’s shop, Montague Street (P03-1555, B25-040)
Lister’s Catalogue
Object: Photo Archive Date: 20th century Description : Lister’s Catalogue for Season 1965 listing varieties of dahlias available (L07-0028.01, B85-037)
Annie Jeffries shop
Object: Photo Archive Date: 19th century Description : Thomson’s poulterer’s shop was situated on the corner of Montague Street and Bridgend Street, the site now occupied by a hairdressers. It became better known as Annie Jeffries shop selling both fish...
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....
Duncan’s Garage
Object: Photo Archive Date: 20th century Description: Duncan’s Garage in Mill Street in the 1960s (P03-3290, B12.070)
Pharmacy Items
Object:Pharmacy Items Date: 19th century Description : 3 items once used in a Bute pharmacy. The pill rolling machine made rows of little round pills. The cachet machine produced flat capsules enclosing a dose of unpleasant medicine. The round box contained wafer...
Barone Road Mill
Object: Barone Road Mill Date: 19th C Description: This building on Barone Road, now the base for Bute Fabrics, was originally built as a cotton mill during the heyday of cotton production in Rothesay in the late18th- early 19th century. In 1882 the...