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This photograph shows housing being demolished in upper Bruce Street in 1965 across from the Canmore Linen Works which were later used by the Andrew Thomson Lifestyle Furniture Showroom. After these buildings were demolished the road was closed and incorporated into the new Tesco store which now operates from this site.
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Farnell and moir used that as a garage before thomson world of furniture . But a great photo
Any old pics of Wilson and Wightmans, that was my first job
Where they buildings were demolished was it not a car park for years?
Mark Williamson
Used to pass it every day in the bus going to work
Wasn’t this street called Damside street and it became a car park. Factory opposite was Winterthur silk factory.
Was part of the Linen works not the Winterthur Silk Factory where the Silk for the Queens wedding dress was made?
The building on the left was correctly the original mill, then also in the early 70s the joiners Kilgour Robinson, ultimately in late 80s and 90s Thomsons World of Furniture run by James Thomson until the mid 90s.
The street was originally called Dam Side Street (as Fay pointed out) but Bruce Street sounds much better. It was so named because where the old bus station used to be, was a dam for water for the factories. It was filled in and used as the bus station for many decades before succumbing to Tesco’s.
If you look closely at the side of the house you can see the workers failed to remove the solar panels before continuing the demolition, proving once again how technologically advanced Scotland is.
May first flat was opposite this and just down a wee bit ,
Charlie Middleton
To make room for Boy Racers Car Park, lol
David Pilch
I used to live in the house at the other end in the early 50′ s. It was a wonderful place to grow up. The bus stance was just round the corner on the left hand side and there were two parks opposite each other on Bruce St.
Jema Cleary this road is now where tesco stands and where the old furniture store that burned down was
Claire Richardson just round the corner from mill street.