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Scotland (Counties as in 1851-1901) => Scotland => Dumfriesshire => Topic started by: dotty on Thursday 11 June 09 20:45 BST (UK)
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Does anybody know of a site that has photos of the Friars Vennel Dumfries.
My gggrandfather lived there and its name is intriguing me
Dotty
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I had a coffee in a cafe there a few years ago - I'll see if i can find anything. It's a small lane connecting Irish street with the river walkway (can't remember the name of that one!)
If you Google it (Friars Vennel +Dumfries) and then click images , masses of piccies come up :D
Here's one:
http://www.fotothing.com/photos/c4b/c4be24d549ec4d134195f56c94053995_cd6.jpg
Gadget
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Many Thanks
Dotty
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when i was a child many years ago friars vennel on a saturday was one of the busiest streets you can imagine you could hardly move for people it is changed days now all the good shops from years ago are gone sometimes the river nith would flood it would be half way up the vennel and everybody would be out clearing up sometimes things from the past were better than now csc
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It looks as if it has been an interesting street.We must stop off next time we are retuning to Lancashire now I know I had ancestors born there.
Dotty
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It was a very interesting street. Even as recent as 20 years ago when I was wee, my favorite place of course was Newalls toy shop at the bottom of 'The Vennel'!
My ex husband also ran a clothes shop there in the early 90s. It was the reason we met as I would walk past him every day after my lunchtime shift as a waitress!
But its a very quiet street nowadays unfortunately...
Tx
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I am going back now to the late fifties, when my mother worked as a waitress in an Italian ice cream parlour called Fuscos, it was always a treat to go there. Regards stoop.
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Must visit one day.
Dotty
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I remember Fuscos very well, went in there after school on teh way down to Whitesands for the bus back to KPD; I went to the Academy. The Vennel is indeed a shadow of its former self, which is sad; various pubs down there,a good bakery and a wool shop, surplus shop. Lillte boutique in the 70s called The Hobbit too. I remember the flooding too - all teh buses shifted up or down accordingly, and The Vennel closed.
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I used to regularly visit Fusco's in Friar's Vennel 1969/70. It was owned by the father of one of my school friends at St. Joseph's. The girl who served me coffee was the very first time I'd asked a girl to go to a disco. It was also the very first time I'd played a record on a juke box. Bob & Marcia's Young Gifted & Black! Fusco's was on our way to the buses
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Friars Vennel is named after the track used by the Grey Friars from their friary to the river. It was in the Church of the Grey Friars that Robert the Bruce slew his rival, the Red Coymn on 19th February 1306. That event was possibly the most important event in the political history of Scotland. It kick-started the Scottish wars of independence, put Bruce on the throne of Scotland and led to the treaties of Edinburgh and Northampton where King Edward III agreed to Scotland being an independent nation. see www.brucetrust.co.uk
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Thanks to todays contacts-really must go one day.
Dotty
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Robert the Bruce murdered the Red Comyn in the Greyfriars Priory, Dumfries, presumably this Vennel was near there.
Skoosh.
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Sorry, I meant to say that Bruce slew the Comyn on 10th Feb 1306. I must have hit the wrong button.