ANCHOR RD: 1900 Why are they queuing outside the Butchers? Has he got some freshly killed tripe or trotters?
........Today they would be run over by a West Shore Bus, or that illegally parked Mercedes ...oops!
BARQUE ST: I lived for 12 years in Barque St and except for the addition of bathroom windows nothing much has changed in recent times. However the land between Barque & Brig Street was at one time home to a wood yard, a small Baptist Mission Hall .... and the biggest Guy Fawkes bonfire on Old Barra’ (maybe thanks to the wood yard).
But now you can’t see the wood for the trees er... cars.
DUNDEE ST: Don’t know what the Planners were thinking of when they built the streets beginning with “D” They made the houses bigger and the roadways narrower than the terraced houses of the “A” streets. So the present residents have to park on the pavement. This of course wasn’t a problem in days of yore.
Here are some views of Barrow Island’s streets in Edwardian times (courtesy of early
Photographer Edward Sankey) & as near as I can get without being run over, to the
present day view of the same scene. The most striking thing is the lack of change
in these streets, except for the ever-
(Sankey postcards kindly loaned to me by the late Doreen Cleasby)
