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South Esk Street, MONTROSE, DD10 8AW

Built in 1850, this delightful building is listed, category C(S) and details are at: http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/sc-38166-14-south-esk-street-former-melville-missi#.V4IKtTU5t8E Some of the information therein is at odds with the Places of Worship in Scotland website at: http://www.scottishchurches.org.uk/sites/site/id/9466/name/Melville+Mission+Hall%2C+Montrose+Montrose+Tayside

Doorway detail of this delightful building is listed, category C(S) and details are at: http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/sc-38166-14-south-esk-street-former-melville-missi#.V4IKtTU5t8E Some of the information therein is at odds with the Places of Worship in Scotland website at: http://www.scottishchurches.org.uk/sites/site/id/9466/name/Melville+Mission+Hall%2C+Montrose+Montrose+Tayside

The area was residential before these flats were built.

Solar panels in Montrose come disadvantaged. There is a large rooftop herring gull population in the town.

Built in 1891, this fine building is listed, category B, with further details at: http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/sc-38165-south-esk-street-south-esk-school-includi#.V4IgqDU5t8E

This herring gull was sitting (probably on a nest) against the parapet of a low level flat roof at the Montrose Royal Mail delivery office in Bridge Street. The gull was just out of shot on the left in this view of the delivery office vehicular entrance Image

This was viewed from the junction with Balmain Street.

This delightful bank building dates from 1900 and is listed, category B, with details at: http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/sc-38098-14-and-15-castle-place-#.V4J0mDU5t8E

The message on the blackboard on the street elevation is self-explanatory.

Judging by the windows in this first- and second-floor, No 18 consists of two two-storey dwellings, both accessed by the black door below the panel with the circular feature. For a short time around 1881, one of the two was the home of John William Fenton (1828-1890), who became an Army bandmaster, was posted with his regiment to Japan in 1868. He was asked by Japanese naval bandsmen to teach them, and a year or so later composed the first version of the tune for the Japanese national anthem, 'Kimi ga Yo', based on a Japanese poem selected for the purpose by Captain Ōyama Iwao. When his regiment left Japan in 1871, Fenton stayed on for a further six years as instructor to the bands of the Japanese Navy and later the Imperial Court.