On 26/11/2013 00:46, bethanyc@aebc.com wrote: > ... > > Gavin Bell mentioned several large buildings on > the old School Road and I'm wondering if they may > have had something to do with the army? No. In 1867 the three large buildings on the "new street" were clearly marked as schools, which is presumably why it came to be known as "School Road". > My > grandfather was in the Gordons already when WW1 > started. No one in their family ever mentioned #6, > where they lived, as army married quarters instead > of a one-family house, but I suppose it's > possible? Unlikely. At that date, the Gordon Barracks were 2 miles away, in the centre of town, at Castle Hill, on a site now occupied by multi-storey blocks of flats. If the army were finding billets for families, I think it would have been in town, not halfway out into the country (as School Road effectively was at that date). Gavin Bell