Valid address in Banff 1918?

[James Griffin]

I discovered yesterday that ancestors of mine married in 1918 in Banff. The location for the marriage seemed to be 4 Heads of Yards, Banff.
I can't find anything regarding that address on Google so I'm wondering if any locals from Banff would know if it is indeed a valid address.
Looking forward to the result!

James

[James Griffin]

Cancel this enquiry folks. After trawling through the internet again I've found another couple of instances of that address which is, indeed, valid.

Thanks anyway...

[GR2]

You will see it in this map. It is at the west of the town.

https://maps.nls.uk/view/74400012

[Forfarian]

Have you seen https://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=859095.0 ?

[GR2]

It's also on this later map (surveyed in 1867).

https://maps.nls.uk/view/75066156

[Forfarian]

And in https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=18&lat=57.66408&lon=-2.52417&layers=168&b=1, surveyed in the 1890s.

[Forfarian]

Looks as if it is now called 'Walker Avenue'.

https://www.streetmap.co.uk/map?x=368770&y=864288&z=120&sv=banff&st=3&tl=Map+of+Banff,+Aberdeenshire+[Town]&searchp=ids&mapp=map

(You may need to zoom in to see it.)

I wonder why the Toon Cooncil thought it appropriate to do away with the historic name?

[Liviani]

I discovered yesterday that ancestors of mine married in 1918 in Banff. The location for the marriage seemed to be 4 Heads of Yards, Banff.
I can't find anything regarding that address on Google so I'm wondering if any locals from Banff would know if it is indeed a valid address.
Looking forward to the result!

James

Hi James, I've been working on a private tree researching my potential 3x great-grandmother Margaret Drysdale (see my thread Forfarian linked in reply number 3). She and her family lived at number 2 Head of Yards Road.

Number 2 was privately owned by her husband Alexander Allan, here's some info from my reply in the other thread. I pondered over this unusual street name for a while when I first saw it also.

Alexander Allan appeared to own the property he and his family lived in for decades at Heads of Yards Road, Banff. A newspaper article in the Banffshire Advertiser in 1876 stated that the property at Head of Yards Road of "two dwelling houses and garden which belonged to the late Alexander Allan, tailor" was for sale by private bargain.