Newtonmore Community Web Site - The Land and The People

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Arch to Commemorate visit of King Edward VII	The Spean Bridge Stagecoach at 'The Hotel' 1902	A closer look at the Stagecoach	The Motor Car Comes to Newtonmore (date unsure)	Rosemeade (c)1910	Cockburns, Tailors (c)1910
The Temperance Hotel - now the Braeriach - c 1920	Hay Cutting with a Scythe - near Alltlaurie 1950's	On the Laggan Road 1940's?	Corn Stooks near Alltlaurie 1960's	Main Street - 1960's - when Craigellachie House was a Chemist's Shop	1960's - Jean Scobie inside the Chemist's Shop
1960's - Alan and Alec MacRae - Grocers par excellence	Curling on frozen Loch Imrich - 1960's (?) - two shots	Newtonmore railway station 1960's - when there were two platforms	Another shot of the Station	The Main A9 in the 1950's	The Great Snowstorm of 1978 - two shots

Newtonmore - A Gallery of Old Photographs

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W Cockburn - Tailor circa 1910
This shop is now Flora's Kitchen (formerly Falconer's Butchers and latterly Clark's Butchers)
The four gentlemen in the centre of the picture were all tailors who came up each summer from Glasgow to service the demand for tailoring from the estates, for the gentry, their gamekeepers and guests. It's an extraordinary comment on just one aspect of the vast amount of work which the Victorian and Edwardian fashion for the Highlands brought to the area.
picture by kind permission of Mrs Sylvia Maclean whose father is pictured on the left.