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Lower Balmain Street, MONTROSE, DD10 8BQ

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

A typical early 19th century street.

A bland modern concrete block on George Street.

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 stands on the corner of George Street and Bow Butts.

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.

The combination of this short stretch of River Street (north of Commerce Street) with Hill Street (left of the junction ahead) is labelled B9133.

The George Hotel, at the corner of George Street and Baltic Street, is No 22, and the blue shop front belongs to No 20. The black door is the access to No 18.