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Publication Account
Date 1999
Event ID 1019011
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Publication Account
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1019011
Nos 79 and 79A High Street (Department of Employment) demonstrate another early nineteenth-century building. On the corner of Castle Lane, this is, reputedly, the oldest house in Nairn figure 22.k &24, once the property of Sheriff Alexander Falconar. His marriage and its twenty-fifth anniversary are commemorated in a gateway, dated 1867, and carved with the initials A F and A B M D, and the motto: vive ut vivas.
Information from - ‘Historic Nairn: The Archaeological Implications of Development’ (1999).
