Whithorn, 39 High Street, Kelvin Grove Bar And Calcutta Inn

Photographic survey of buildings in Whithorn, Wigtownshire, by the Scottish National Buildings Record in 1962.

The volume of accommodation did increase after the arrival of the railway in 1877, some of it intended to capitalise on increased visitor numbers. For most of the nineteenth century there were two hotels in Whithorn: the Grapes and the Galloway Arms (now the post office) (fig 28). These were joined by 1907 by a Temperance Hotel nearer the station (now the Black Hawk). There were also five inns, including the Brunswick (now the Central Café, no. 17 George Street), the Commercial Inn (originally at the junction of Castlehill and George Street, but moved in the 1930s to near the Pend), the King’s Head, the ‘once celebrated hostelry’ called the Red Lion, and, from c 1880, the Calcutta in High Street (see fig 41)

Information from ‘The Scottish Burgh Survey, Historic Whithorn: Archaeology and Development’ (2010).