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No: 3705 Contributor: Bruce Flett Year: 1987
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Starting to build Earl's court.
Picture added on 15 August 2007
Built on the site of Tom Paterson's garages
Added by W Mackay on 26 January 2008
For years I hunted for pictures of Blachree, the house in the front of the building works, having work done to its roof (by the same building firm). I owned this house from 2000 til 2007. Funny how things turn up!
Added by Ellen Pesci on 30 June 2009
This work was done by Alfred Flett Builders Holm.
When we knocked down the old sheds one of them was very black and sooted, someone said that there had been a blacksmiths here?
When we knocked down the old sheds one of them was very black and sooted, someone said that there had been a blacksmiths here?
Added by Robbie Shearer on 04 July 2009
Yes Robbie, that's right. I can't quite remember the rights of it, but in one of the the census reports of many years ago maybe as early as 1901, there was a man listed at Blachree as a Blacksmith. I don't know when the business ceased to be - but certainly in the first instance it was there. When I got the keys to the house in 2000 there was a spurious old-fashioned key included that opened nothing in or around the house. It was suggested by Neil Isbister from the Olde Manse that it may have opened that very shed.
Added by Ellen Pesci on 07 July 2009
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