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MHG8861 - 3 High Street, Rosemarkie

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NH75NW0202 5 High Street
JHooper, 17/7/2002

Formerly included ROSEMARKIE, 5 High Street

3 High Street; home of Rod Anderson, Tailor.

Rod Anderson, who was employed by Mrs Margaret MacRae (widow of Kenneth MacRae, Master Tailor), built a shed in his back garden so that he could continue working after the War Department, World War Two, requisitioned the MacRae’s former home of Craigview. In 1944 Polish soldiers accidentally burnt down the house in Bridge Street and it was always afterwards called the ‘burnt house’. The property Rod Anderson rented, 3 High Street, was classed as uninhabitable by 1955 and his shed valued at only £2. He was still working as a tailor there, however in 1960. There are several tailors, drapers and dressmakers recorded in the 1901 Census for although most people made their own clothing, men might own one tailored suit for best and women would use a dressmaker for special outfits. The 1901 Census shows William Young (18) draper’s apprentice and Daniel Fraser (24) tailor, boarding with a washerwoman, Isabella Corbett, at this address. <1>

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Grid reference	Centred NH 7363 5756 (12m by 17m) (2 map features)
Map sheet	NH75NW
Geographical Area	ROSS AND CROMARTY
Civil Parish	ROSEMARKIE

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