https://www.wshs.org.uk/rss/ Sat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 GMT https://www.wshs.org.uknews/summer-evening-at-murthly-castle-chapel-25-may-2024 https://www.wshs.org.uknews/summer-evening-at-murthly-castle-chapel-25-may-2024 Songs O'er Time & Place with PlaidSong In the lovely sylvan setting of Murthly Castle's historic chapel. Wednesday 10 July Come and join us for an evening of songs from Scotland's history and landscape. Drinks at 7pm with music from 7.30pm. There will be no interval. Click the link below for tickets at Eventbrite.com. This is a fundraising event generously supported by Tue, 28 Nov 2023 00:00:00 GMT https://www.wshs.org.uknews/illustrated-talks-and-topics-2023/24-part-2-28-nov-2023 https://www.wshs.org.uknews/illustrated-talks-and-topics-2023/24-part-2-28-nov-2023 Talks Free to Members Visitors £5 29 January Bankfoot Church Centre 7.30pm Robert Burns - Why All the Fuss? by Len Murray 26 February Bankfoot Church Centre 7.30pm The Scots Matadors – Helping to Tame the Wild West by Ewan Pate 25 March Murthly Village Hall 7.30pm Cleansing Fires: The Story of Murthly Pt 2 by Paul Tue, 17 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMT https://www.wshs.org.uknews/forthcoming-events-17-jan-2023 https://www.wshs.org.uknews/forthcoming-events-17-jan-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 Pert Thu, 22 Dec 2022 00:00:00 GMT https://www.wshs.org.uknews/festive-auld-times-22-dec-2022 https://www.wshs.org.uknews/festive-auld-times-22-dec-2022 We have added the Festive Issue of Auld Times to the Library. It has advance details of forthcoming Talks, and Topics for Members Evenings. Sat, 3 Sep 2022 00:00:00 GMT https://www.wshs.org.uknews/and-were-back-3-sep-2022 https://www.wshs.org.uknews/and-were-back-3-sep-2022 Monday 14 November, 7.30 pm. Bankfoot Church Centre: Perthshire, A County of Architectural Delights by Simon Green, Historic Environment Scotland The talk will celebrate the rich and varied architecture of Perthshire using the collections of the National Record of the Historic Environment. Ranging from Medieval cathedrals, castles, country houses to power stations, offices and theatres, the tal