. Elgin past and present : a historical guide / by Herbert B. Mackintosh. sit of filth, were crossed rectangularly by the commongutters. One of these crossed immediately to the east of the Com-mercial Bank and another near to Lossie Wynd. The common gutterscarried all the surface sewage of the town to the old Blackfriars andHerveys Stanks, then open ditches, and in heavy rains they oftenswelled into rapid streams of considerable size. The Town Counci ,aided by the Earl of Fife and the Road Trustees, about 1820 beganputting the street into proper order, and it was said that they had pavedthe st
. Elgin past and present : a historical guide / by Herbert B. Mackintosh. sit of filth, were crossed rectangularly by the commongutters. One of these crossed immediately to the east of the Com-mercial Bank and another near to Lossie Wynd. The common gutterscarried all the surface sewage of the town to the old Blackfriars andHerveys Stanks, then open ditches, and in heavy rains they oftenswelled into rapid streams of considerable size. The Town Counci ,aided by the Earl of Fife and the Road Trustees, about 1820 beganputting the street into proper order, and it was said that they had pavedthe streets with a thousand guineas, that being about the cost of 186 ELGIN PAST AND PRESENT removing the croon of the causeway, the common gutters, andthe other impediments to travelling which then existed. After passing Murdochs Wynd—formerly Raggs Wynd—which leadsto the Haugh and the Borough Briggs lands—we have over the bowyett in court No. 237 an excellent representation (Fig. 59) of the arms oftwo of our Trades Incorporations : —Dexter, the Crown and Hammer r I. Elchies House. of the Hammermen. Sinister, the Goose and Scissors of the Tailors,dated 1686. This is a most interesting lintel. Over a garden gate in courtyard at No. 224 is a small lintel marked J. R. M. L. 1666 And in the Old Seceders Close No. 166 are two old lintels, one havingin script:— David Leslie Marjory Chalmers 1720 The other having only their initials D. L., M. C. over date 1723. ELGIN PAST AND PRESENT 187 Opposite, is the Commercial Bank of Scotland. This was thehome of General Anderson—the donor of Andersons Institution—afterhe returned from India. On his death the property was bought bythe Bank, who in 1852 took down the front of the house and rebuiltthe present highly ornamental frontage. Between the Bank and theproperty on the east, ran the common gutter of the olden days. The handsome building on the other side of the street is theCaledonian Bank (Bank of Scotland), erected about 1845. On
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