Forthcoming Events
Added on 17 January 2023
Our Illustrated Talks recommence in January and will, once again, be peripatetic . . .
Monday 30th January in Murthly Village Hall at 7.30 pm:
Steam Fever & Madness: The Making of Murthly
By Paul McLennan
The village of Murthly owes its existence to the coming of the railway in 1856 . . . and to the ‘sweetener’ offered to the Commissioners in Lunacy enticing them to build Perthshire’s new asylum opposite the station.
Monday 27th February in Luncarty Church Centre at 7.30pm
Reminiscences of Luncarty Bleachworks and Ordie Mill
by Margaret Bennett
Monday 27th March in Pitcairngreen Village Hall at 7.30pm
Bridgescapes
By Bruce Keith
In "Bridgescapes", Bruce Keith takes on a journey through history celebrating Scotland's bridge-building heritage. From the Brig o' Balgownie (shown here), dating from 1320, to the prototype cable-stayed design at the Haughs of Drimmie, developed by John Justice from Dundee in the late 1820s, to the iconic Queensferry Crossing, opened in 2017, we meet the engineers and hear the stories behind these magnificent structures, which are part of our national heritage.
Monday 24th April in Chapelhill Hall at 7.30pm
Plagues, Pestilences and the Pox
By Richard Oram
Our recent experience of pandemic has brought renewed interest in the devastating plague pandemics that swept Asia, North Africa and Europe from the middle of the 14th century. Apart from the advances in medical understanding of what caused epidemic disease and the modern development of anti-viral vaccines, it is sobering to see how well our ancestors understood how to limit, control and contain spread and how they reacted faster and more efficiently without the modern mass media communications networks at our disposal.
MEMBERS EVENINGS
There will also be a series of Members Evenings in Luncarty Church Centre at 7.30pm.
As previously, there will be a topic for each evening. But they will share a common theme: Myth busting.
Monday 13th February: The Battle of Luncarty and the involvement of the Hays.
Monday 13th March: The Romans had a name for it. But was it ‘Bertha’?
Monday 10th April: The specious truth behind Tin Pan Alley and Scotland’s best-loved traditional songs.
Free to everyone. Come along and share your thoughts, theories and hobby-horses on any and all of these topics.