Forfar - The Greens and Market Street area
The County Buildings in Market Street (left) and County Buildings Gardens (right).   PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow
Carseburn Road (left).  Modern flats occupy the former railway coal sidings which were accessed by a bridge over North Street.  Don Street (right).  PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow
Don Street (left) looking towards the former Scottish Gas Board showrooms with the derelict property of Harry Mackintosh & Son on the right hand side of the street.  Harry Mackintosh & Son (right)..   PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow
The backs of the houses on the west side of John Street.  PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow
An array of drying poles await a washing with the County Buildings visible through the trees.  PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow
Victoria Street (left).  Modern housing off Don Street (right).  PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow
Forfar had four primary schools named after the cardinal points of the compass.  The West has been demolished, but the buildings of all the others survive.  The most distinctive was the red brick North School in Wellbraehead.  PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow
Queens Street leads off East High Street to the Greens.  At the junction (left) stood the remains of a well first sunk in 1757.  Its remains lasted until demolition in the 1960s and its spot is now marked by a utility services box!  At the same time a 1741 tenement was demolished - but it wasn't to widen the High Street, although the replacement was built further back.  One wonders if these structures would have been demolished had they lasted until now.  The view looking back from the Greens (right) towards Queen Street with the buildings of East High Street forming a backdrop.  PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow
Pathway leading from Queen Street to the Greens (left), so called because they were used extensively as drying greens.  The drying poles behind the swing (right) are now symbolic of this past function of the Greens - now largely a parking lot.  PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow
Goosecroft from Queen Street (left) and from Victoria Street (right).  PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow
The Greens survived into the 50s and were at that time the traditional location for the annual fair.  Now a car park, the poles to the rear of the children's swings are a reminder of the Green's original function.  PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow
County Buildings in Market Street form a backdrop to Tesco (left).  Tesco from Don Street (right).  PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow
The gift of a former lord provost the Reid Hall (left), was burnt down on 31 December 1941 and restored in the 60s.  The Stag Hotel (right) at the junction of Victoria Street and Castle Street was at one time the eastern extremity of the Myre.  PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow
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