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Millhaugh Brig by Richard Webb
Highland Express, Luncarty
Luncarty War Memorial by Richard Dorrell
River Tay, Luncarty by John Andrews
Main St, Bankfoot
View from Craig Gibbon
Kinclaven Bridge
Pitcairngreen Inn by Euan Nelson
Bell Mill, Stanley by Mary Rodgers

West Stormont Historical Society

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.

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