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This photograph shows Queen Mary's House on Bridge Street, just before its demolition in 1968 ( gable end view). The house was occupied by Mary, Queen of Scots in 1562 while her army laid siege to the castle. Mary had been refused admission to her castle by Alexander Gordon, the Earl of Huntly's Lieutenant-Governor. With the help of the MacKintoshes and Frasers the castle was taken and Gordon hanged. The building was demolished in 1968 to make way for the offices of the Highlands and Islands Development Board.

Further along Bridge Street is Inverness Town Steeple. The steeple is all that remains of a tolbooth building erected in 1791 at a total cost of £3,400. Built by the architect William Sibbald of Edinburgh, the steeple is 130 feet high and although badly twisted by an earthquake in 1816, it was straightened some years later

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