This week's trip down Memory Lane shows Brothock Bridge as it was about 1963 or '64, when traffic could travel both sides of the island and before the pedestrian area was laid.
The building which now houses the Central Bar was still a grocery store run by Arbroath Co-operative Society. Next door was the Stance Cafe, owned and run by Masson the baker, who had a shop in Barngreen.
W. Alexander & Sons (Northern) Ltd were ne
xt door again and the building now occupied by the CAFE Project was the former St Ninian's Church which closed in July 1959, when it joined with Hopemount Church to become St Andrew's Church. It was later used as clubrooms by the Royal Naval Association and then was acquired by Arbroath Football Club and became the home of Arbroath FC Supporters' Club.
At left can be seen a corner of the British linen Bank, now Halifax Bank of Scotland (HBOS).
Law's Garage dominated the angle in Commerce Street and ran through into Marketgate. When the garage closed down, the building was later used as a depot for Bert Cargill's fleet of ice-cream and confectionary vans before being demolished.
The new-build premises on the site now house the local office of Careers Scotland.
The Arbroath Savings Bank is now Lloyds TSB Scotland and has incoporated the Commerce Street section of Law's Garage.
The building in the background is the rear aspect of the Webster Memorial Hall.
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