OUR BUSINESSES
My wife Lynne and I started in business in 1981 when we opened our Coffee and Crafts Shop in Fochabers. I was still serving in the army (Royal Engineers) and commuted from Edinburgh to Fochabers at weekends and holidays. In 1982 I started Picture Framing which proved so successful that I had to move to bigger premises and so bought an old school at Bogmoor as a workshop, gallery and retail outlet and a shop in Elgin. We sold the Coffee Shop to concentrate on framing and art. In July 2007 we retired and the workshop was sold. We are retaining the retail shop in Elgin to let out (currently to a Photographer & Fine Art Printer).
'The Gallery' Coffee & Craft Shop
Our first business where we 'lived above the shop'. My daughter Nicola is in the second photo (taking a year out from Uni..). Lynne is in the bottom two photo's, the images being towards the front and the back of the shop.
The South Street Gallery - Our Elgin Shop
The Old Red School, Bogmoor
The Old Red School at Bogmoor became our workshop, gallery and customer reception centre in 19xx.
The Fochabers Framer Team
Irene, Jeff, Lynne, Sandy
(Malcolm was away - Kathleen is taking the picture)
A framing job for a military family
A view of part of the Spey Bay Gallery
The sign that was at the entrance to our workshop - we called him Gordon the Highlander (we are in Gordon Clan country).
The internal demolition of The Old Red School
This used to be the stock room area for mouldings
This used to be the workshop area with benches, machinery,
materials etc
This used to be the gallery which was full of pictures
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