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Thomas Carlyle
A statue of the historian looks down on Ecclefechan. It's bang on the grid square - so you take your pick.
Image: © Richard Webb
Taken: 31 Mar 2007
0.04 miles
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Statue of Thomas Carlyle
Commanding a fine view over Ecclefechan, the village where the famous writer and historian was born
Image: © Graham Hogg
Taken: 1 Jun 2021
0.06 miles
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B7076, Ecclefechan
Looking northwest.
Image: © Richard Sutcliffe
Taken: 14 Jun 2019
0.08 miles
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High Street, Ecclefechan
Image: © Peter Bond
Taken: 16 Oct 2015
0.09 miles
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Houses on the edge of Ecclefechan
Beyond a statue of Thomas Carlyle which guards the grid square, a collection of single floor cottages. Beyond, out of sight but not earshot, the motorway.
Image: © Richard Webb
Taken: 31 Mar 2007
0.11 miles
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1 and 2 Garthwaite Place, High Street, Ecclefechan
Category C Listed pair of mid 19th century houses with shop. Three bedroom no.1 was sold in 2014 and since that time, the Garthwaite name above the shop front has been uncovered. The listing describes them as 'not all one build' but in view of the name over the shop, presumably both built by the Garthwaite's as a shop with accommodation and a second house. I had a search of my few directories for Garthwaite and found; 1825 not listed; 1837 John & Thomas, both tailors; 1861 not listed; 1878 Thomas, drapers, Thomas & Sons tailors; 1886 Thomas, drapers/tailor; 1903 John & Thomas, both tailors. I assume the 1903 John is Thomas' son, not the same as the 1837 John. A 66 year working life for one Thomas also seems unlikely. Can we infer from this that a Thomas Garthwaite built no.1 at least as a drapers?
Image: © Jo and Steve Turner
Taken: 10 Jun 2023
0.12 miles
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"Sleepy Valley" Downtown Ecclefechan
Ecclefechan taken from the top of "The Clint" and looking across The Solway Firth towards the radio masts at Anthorn.
Image: © James Johnstone
Taken: 11 Jan 2014
0.14 miles
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Globe House, High Street, Ecclefechan
Category C Listed early 19th century former inn, described in the listing as including Watson's shop. The Globe Inn is listed in my directories in 1837, 1861, 1878 and 1886 but my 1903 directory doesn't include it. The front and middle sections are stone built suggesting the original footprint of the inn, with the rear brick sections a later addition. Between at least 1995 and 2006 the building was vacant and in 2005 planning had been granted for change of use to the former shop (Watson's?) and store to form a flat. In 2010 there appears to have been 3 flats here with a hairdressers in the ground floor shop and in the August, retrospective planning was approved for a shop and 3 flats. The shop seems currently unoccupied.
Image: © Jo and Steve Turner
Taken: 10 Jun 2023
0.14 miles
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High Street, Ecclefechan
Until the mid 1960s, this was the A74, the main trunk road from Glasgow to Carlisle.
Image: © G Laird
Taken: 26 Apr 2017
0.14 miles
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B7076 passing through Ecclefechan
Image: © Peter Bond
Taken: 16 Oct 2015
0.15 miles