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Plan of alterations to villa in Tower Street, Tain, the 1950s. It includes the provision of an external larder and toilet at the back of the kitchen, a glassed-in extension to the lounge projecting into the back garden, the replacement of the upstairs fireplaces with electric radiators and the replacement of some of the internal doors with timber and glass

Alterations to villa in Tower Street, Tain, 1950s

Plan of the Tain Burgage and other lands the property of The Marquis and marchioness of Stafford. Tain, April 1856

Plan of the West end of Tain Burgage

A plan, drawn by John Sutherland Ross LRIBA, Chartered Architect, Commercial Bank Buildings, Tain, Ross-shire, and dated July 1968 for additions and alterations to the Tain slaughterhouse. the slaughterhouse was on the northern outskirts of the town between the railway station and the cattle market. The proposed additions comprised substantial extensions to the side and rear of the original building for marshalling the animals and dealing with various by-products after slaughter. The original building with its ornate Lombardic frontage was designed in 1885 by Tain architects Andrew Maitland & Sons, who were responsible for many of the public and private buildings of the town at this period, including the town hall, parish church, masonic hall, public school, Royal Hotel and many of the larger private houses.

Drawing of the Slaughter House

Detailed map of the burgh of Tain, Ross-shire, prepared by George Gordon & Co, architects, Inverness and dated 23rd March 1935, showing the locations of a proposed new sewage outfall and of a proposed bathing pool on the River Tain. The existing sewerage system within the town is shown by dotted blue lines and corresponds exactly to the lines of the burns which flowed through the town before gradually being bridged and enclosed from the early 19th century on. The old outfall discharged onto the mudflats at low tide. The new outfall would have taken the sewage much further out into the river itself. The location of the bathing pool was a local beauty spot, already popular for both walks and bathing, and was just upstream from the picturesque Alexandra suspension bridge, designed by David Reid and made at the Rose Street Foundry, Inverness in 1901/02. The plans went to the P T & R Scottish Grants Committee in June 1939 but were never implemented, presumably because of the start of World War 2. A new sewage treatment plant was eventually built to the West of the town in the 1970s.

Map of sewers and proposed bathing pool at Tain, Ross-shire, 1935

Plans of a proposed shop at 25 Lamington Street for J Wemyss Ross & Coy Milliners, on waxed cloth. Shows elevations and plans of the proposed layout. Architect's name not given, but thought by Forbie Urquhart to date from about 1929. This is the shop Forbie returned from Canada to open as a draper shop in 1953. It had been bought on his behalf by his father in late 1952.

Plan for Shop in Lamington Street