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Mr Alexander Forbes, chemist in Castle Street, Inverness

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LOCATION: Inverness
PERIOD: 1880s
OLD COUNTY/PARISH: INVERNESS:Inverness and Bona
CONTRIBUTOR: Highland Photographic Archive (IMAG)
COLLECTION NAME: Joseph Cook

Mr Alexander Forbes, a chemist with premises in Castle Street, Inverness. Mr Forbes appears to have been a popular shopkeeper as he is quoted as being 'a gentleman of learning, refinement and courtesy, whose friendship it was a privilege to possess, for his conversation could not fail to elevate the tone of one's mind'. (- 'Inverness Before Railways' by Isabel Harriet Anderson, Inverness, 1885)

IDENTIFIER: GB1796_1999_116_063

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