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MHG22102 - 49 High Street, Fortrose

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Cromarty Bakery

The sheaf of wheat plaque on the front wall of this shop tells us it started out as a Bakery. In 1911 John Macleod was the baker. After John’s death Mrs Macleod rented the shop and bake house to Murdo Matheson, the baker/grocer next to the Union Tavern. In the 1930s John Macdonald renamed it ‘The West End Dairy’ and it sold ‘pure sweet milk from tested cows’ as well as cream, butter, fresh eggs and poultry. Tom Macdonald had a dairy farm under the railway bridge at the top of Bishop’s Road and he delivered milk from a van or you could take your own pail to the farm to be filled. After the war Dorothy Kate Macdonald’s father, Kenny, had it as a bakery again. George Brooks rented it for his electrical business in 1946. Dorothy Kate Haytor (nee Macdonald) inherited the family home but the shop stood empty through the 1950’s and 60’s. More recently it was Ina Anderson’s Hairdressers (1970s), a private residence and then briefly the ‘Farm Shop’ and now since 2010, ‘Cromarty Bakery’. <1> <2>

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Grid reference	Centred NH 7267 5663 (15m by 16m) (2 map features)
Map sheet	NH75NW
Geographical Area	ROSS AND CROMARTY
Civil Parish	ROSEMARKIE

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