Delving into Dunrobin Street

It can be shown using map evidence that the first houses appeared in Dunrobin Street around 1815-1820.  This is the main street in the village, where most of the shops were/are located - a real hub of commercial activity.  Maggie Codd, one of the street researchers, has been looking at the houses in Dunrobin street and has had some success in matching the houses with past occupants using the Valuation Rolls, OS maps and old archival photographs.

Maggie has noted that valuation rolls from the 1960s onwards have quite a few house numbers recorded.  This is not the case for the vluation roll dated 1894-95, which has no house numbers marked.  Maggie has approached her research by making a list of all the house numbers for Dunrobin Street  from the 1960s valuation roll, along with their associated vluation roll numbers.  These numbers stay the same in each valuation roll up until the 1970s onwards.  In this way, Maggie can find the location of the house on the street map and retrace the occupants back through the vlaution rolls - very clever!

 

Maggie looking through the old photographs of the village in the Timespan archive

 

It gets a bit more tircky as some houses don't have numbers, and Maggie will have to do more research to fill in the gaps.  She has also found it helpful to look at the old photographs of the street, which shows some of the older buildings, now demolished.  One photograph, in particular, showed houses on Dunrobin Street, where it used to meet Stafford Street, which were demolished to make way for the New Bridge.  A few houses on Stafford Street, next to the Bannockburn Hotel, were also demolished - we would love to hear from anyone who can tell us who lived in these houses and if there are any old photos out there please get in touch!

 The corner of Dunrobin Street and Stafford Street before the New Bridge was built, c1950s