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Title: Hoddam Castle Hotel Dumfries
Post by: cupcake on Thursday 25 January 18 17:47 GMT (UK)
Does anyone remember the Hoddam Castle Hotel, Whitesands, Dumfries

cupcake
Title: Re: Hoddam Castle Hotel Dumfries
Post by: Iandj on Friday 26 January 18 11:30 GMT (UK)
Your question made me curious, Cupcake, because my interest in Whitesands lies particularly in another long gone hostelry there, called the Farmers Inn, which was run by my ggg-grandmother and where my gg-grandmother was born. The 1852 OS map I have shows both the Hoddam Castle Inn at the junction of White Sands and Brewery Street (now occupied by a Land Rover spares dealer), and the Farmers Inn (now occupied by a coffee shop/restaurant) a bit further along Whitesands.

I see that the Post Office Directory for 1911-12 describes the Hoddom Castle Inn at 32 Whitesands as being occupied by Mrs Paterson. But it's no wonder a few disappeared over the years; my map suggests that there were at least 14 inns in Whitesands and Brewery Street between Buccleuch and Bank Streets.

Ian
Title: Re: Hoddam Castle Hotel Dumfries
Post by: cupcake on Friday 26 January 18 16:24 GMT (UK)
Thank you very much for all the information. I am from Dumfries and know it is now occupied by a Land Rover spares dealer, so the info you have given is great.

The reason I asked is Jim Glover who was in the same regiment as my G Unlce, gave his mother as next of kin - address Hoddom Castle Hotel, Whitesands, Dumfries, and was curious as to what it may have looked like back then in 1914/15


Thank you