IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
Church Street, DUMFRIES, DG2 7AZ
Introduction
This page details the photographs taken nearby to Church Street, DG2 7AZ by members of the Geograph project.
The Geograph project started in 2005 with the aim of publishing, organising and preserving representative images for every square kilometre of Great Britain, Ireland and the Isle of Man.
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Image Map
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Notes
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- The higher the marker number, the further away the image location is from the centre of the postcode.
Image Listing (404 Images Found)
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Flats on a hill, Church Street
This was originally a tenement block called Observatory Terrace, but there does not appear to be a sign with that name today. Probably built in the early 20th century, located opposite Image which was at one time an astronomical observatory.
There is a photo of the back of these buildings, taken 1967, on ScotlandsPlaces http://www.scotlandsplaces.gov.uk/search_item/index.php?service=RCAHMS&id=175210&refer=L3NlYXJjaC9pbmRleC5waHA%2FYWN0aW9uPWRvX3NlYXJjaCZwX3R5cGU9ZnJlZV90ZXh0X3NlYXJjaCZwX25hbWU9b2JzZXJ2YXRvcnk%3D .
Image: © Rose and Trev Clough
Taken: 9 Jun 2012
0.01 miles
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Entrance to the museum from Primrose Street
Access to the Dumfries Museum and Camera Obscura via a steep garden (there is another entrance at the top of the hill). Above the gate is a lamp with the arms of Dumfries on it.
There is a good article about the museum on Undiscovered Scotland http://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/dumfries/museum/index.html .
Image: © Rose and Trev Clough
Taken: 9 Jun 2012
0.03 miles
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The Sinclair Memorial
Located in the grounds of the Dumfries Museum and Camera Obscura, built in the style of a Tuscan temple (more details at Historic Scotland http://hsewsf.sedsh.gov.uk/hslive/hsstart?P_HBNUM=26136 ).
It is a memorial to John Sinclair M.D., assistant surgeon in the Royal Navy, 1814-1840.
Inside the building are some sculptures Image Doctor Sinclair won them in a lottery, but the very next day "by a mournful accident", the young man died.
Image: © Rose and Trev Clough
Taken: 9 Jun 2012
0.04 miles
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Statue of Old Mortality and his pony
Located inside Image .
Old Mortality was the nickname of Robert Paterson (1715-1801), a stonemason who took it upon himself to travel around lowland Scotland carving inscriptions for the unmarked graves of Covenanters, martyred in the 17th century. He is the subject of a novel by Sir Walter Scott. More information here http://futuremuseum.co.uk/collections/people/lives-in-key-periods/rebellion-enlightenment/the-covenanting-wars-the-killing-time/old-mortality,-dumfries-photographic-views-of-dumfries-and-neighbourhood,-kings-arms-hotel.aspx .
The sculptures are by John Currie (or Corrie). There is a very similar statue by him at Balmaclellan Image .
Image: © Rose and Trev Clough
Taken: 9 Jun 2012
0.04 miles
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Dumfries, The Burns Centre
The old burgh mill designed by Thomas Smeaton has been converted into "The Robert Burns Centre".
Image: © David Dixon
Taken: 14 Feb 2013
0.04 miles
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Willow and old building beside the Nith, Dumfries
I think the building is currently a restaurant.
Image: © Mike Pennington
Taken: 1 Apr 2014
0.04 miles
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Entrance to Robert Burns Centre, Dumfries
Image: © Billy McCrorie
Taken: 13 Oct 2015
0.04 miles
