North side of Dovecot Street 1870-1880? from Heavisides Almanack 1908 
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North side of Dovecot Street 1870-1880? from Heavisides Almanack 1908
Being very sickly as a child I spent many a long hour with my mother in the very crowded waiting room at 77 Dovecot Street to see Dr Smith and later Dr Hood. At first patients used the ‘honour system’ to determine who’s turn was next, then a numbering system was introduced, a big improvement as some patients weren’t always ‘honourable’ and the odd argument would ensue.
Number 77 Dovecot Street was the surgery of Dr Alastair Smith and Dr Peter Hood from about 1950 with No. 79 residential. I believe the building opposite was the Co-op Funeral Parlour. The GPO had a telephone exchange and offices built in the 60s where No.75 would have been.
Shortly after the surgery transfered to the newly built Lawson Street Health Centre Nos 77 and 79 were demolished.
I am interested if anyone knows if the buildings included to the left of this picture are residential houses, in particular number 79 Dovecot Street (which was owned by my great-great-great-great-grandmother, Mary Potts)until the early 1900’s. I recently tried to find the location, only to find it’s no longer there, but right across the street from where it would have stood, there was a big vacant building which looked like it would have been a government building? Anyone know what it was around 1900/1910? Thank you (any more old pics of Dovecot Street houses would be appreciated too!).