The proposal was put before them at their annual meeting and was unanimously approved.
Planning permission for the work, expected to take about six weeks, will be sought early in the New Year, as will authority to alter parts of the external façade of the listed building.
The latter will involve extending part of the Barclay Street gable end to line-up with the inside edge of the pavement and replacement of the existing front entrance by a window matching the others facing on to the Market Square.
New access to the premises will be via a presently unused door a the corner of the Square and Barclay Street.

50 Years Ago

Friday, December 27, 1957

ALL is not as well as it might be with the roof of Fetteresso Parish Church.
It is not in danger of collapse, but the woodwork is in a bad way, the congregation heard from Rev. Robert Gray after morning service on Sunday.
The Session, he said, considered the matter urgent, with member Mr D. Walker explaining the situation.
Mr Walker said that as far as he knew, little had been spent on the fabric of the church for 150 years.
The had taken advice on the matter and it was found that new woodwork was required in the belfry, while woodwork in the roof needed to be treated with portable pressure impregnation.
Mr Hugh Ramsay, convener of the finance committee, estimated the cost of repairs at £1,200 and emphasised the more must be started by spring.
Mr Gray recalled that delay in treating woodworm in a church smaller than Fetteresso had cost about £20,000 as the roof had to be taken down and pews removed.
Members of the church will be circularised on the matter.

100 Years Ago

Thursday, December 26, 1907

WHAT is to be the fate of the Town Band?
As a local institution, it seems at present to be wavering in the balance.
The Band Committee lately visited the band-room for a twofold purpose – to meet with any old members who had cared to come bad and also to hear the boys under training play.
So far as the old members are concerned the meeting was a failure, only one putting in an appearance!
The six or seven boys who have attended regularly out of the thirty who started played a number of hymn tunes and also the 'Keel Row' in a manner that surprised the committee and spoke volumes for Mr Milne's training.
But half a dozen, the committee felt, did not constitute a band, though several of the members were of the opinion that another 12 or so might be got before three months were up and this the band could be kept going.