Stranraer, Castle Street, King's Arms Hotel

Castle Street in Stranraer still carries the King's Arms Hotel, a building that probably fed sailors, merchants and wandering families before the port became busy. The address sits in Dumfries and Galloway, where sea roads and land roads crossed, so a hotel there would have been loud with coats, boots and stories. Whether it served ale, rooms or only passage to elsewhere, it belonged to the movement of people through Scotland's western edge.