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Burnside Gardens, LOCKERBIE, DG11 3DJ

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?

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.

Until the mid 1960s, this was the A74, the main trunk road from Glasgow to Carlisle.

Looking northwest.

A statue of the historian looks down on Ecclefechan. It's bang on the grid square - so you take your pick.

Category C Listed late 18th century inn, altered in the late 19th century. The hotel's website claims the building dates to the 1730s. Refurbished in 2005 the hotel seems to have closed recently and looks to have been on the market for a couple of years. A search of my few directories suggests the hotel may have been called the Bush Hotel, here are the results; 1825 no inn/pub names given; 1837 only vintners listed are Bush Inn, Globe Inn, Ewe & Lamb, Blue Bell; 1861 only vintners listed are Commercial & Globe; 1878-1886 only vintners listed are Bush, Commercial & Globe; 1903 establishments listed are Bush Hotel & Commercial Hotel.

Robert Burns, snowed in here in 1795, derided Ecclefechan as 'an unfortunate wicked little village'. Its happier claim to fame, however, is as the birthplace of Thomas Carlyle, coincidentally born in 1795.