SAR023925 SCOTLAND (1955). General View Thurso, Caithness, Scotland. An oblique aerial photograph taken facing West.

Just visible are the line of 2ndWW anti-tank blocks.

? This mark possibly represents the removal site of a 2ndWW roadblock reported as being somewhere on this bridge.

Viewfirth. An attractive and commodious villa, once occupied by the rector of Miller Academy. It was acquired by the UKAEA as the sports and social club for the workers at Dounreay Power Station. In more recent years it was gradually run down, closed and sadly, the building demolished.

Congregational (now United Reformed) Church

West Public Primary School

St Andrew's Church (abandoned as a place of worship in 1968 and now a funeral directors premises).

St Peter's Church

Thurso West Church

This building, of about 1882, was built as the Artillery Volunteers drill hall. By WW1 it was in use by E Coy, 5th Battalion Seaforth Highlanders (Territorial Force). It is now privately owned.

Masonic Hall. Built in 1873 as a rifle volunteers drill hall. The building was altered at the time it came into the hands of the masons before WW1.

Station Hotel

Miller Academy

The Royal Hotel

The Holborn Hotel

St Clair Hotel

The Pentland Hotel

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