The Scots Opera Project makes its Perth Festival of the Arts debut with Marjory Kennedy-Fraser’s and Granville Bantock’s Celtic folk opera, The Seal-Woman on May 21st and 22nd. Tickets are still available. LINK: The Seal-Woman - Scots Opera Project Event at Perth Festival Of The Arts
Saturday 13th May 2023 at 10.30am We are delighted to announce that our new lecture series of 2023 will start with a talk inthe Soutar Theatre at the A K Bell Library. The subject matter will be an update on a veryexciting project that is being taken forward by the Perth Society of Natural Science inconjunction with the Historic Towns Trust, together with members of Perth Civic Trust toprovide a map of Historic Perth with buildings and locations of particular interesthighlighted upon it. It is the intention that this will subsequently be accompanied by a moredetailed atlas produced from the…
Perth Civic Trust members are on a PSNS working group to design a new Historical Map of Perth.
This sculpture by David Annand at the junction of High Street and King Edward Street was inspired by William Soutar’s 1941 poem ‘Nae Day Sae Dark’.
A simple plaque on the Tay Steet flood defence wall commemorates the Scottish poet William Soutar. Inscribed upon one of the pillars is the second verse of ‘Aince upon a day’ one of Soutar’s best known poems. To accompany the poem, tiny sculptures of the creatures mentioned adorn the top of the wall.
This suburban house at 27 Wilson Street was the home of William Soutar, a well-known and respected Scottish poet. He suffered from chronic inflammatory arthritis from the age of 26. He became bed-ridden from that point until his death from tuberculosis in 1943. He is particularly remembered for a series of poems, or epigrams as he called them, written in the Scots dialect. He is closely associated with the works of Hugh MacDiarmid.
This ring of metal markers in South Street at its junction with South Methven Street marks the site of the South Street Port, one of the historic routes though the medieval town defences. From the South Street Port, one could proceed down Hospital Street, into St Leonard’s Street, down into Craigie, and on to Edinburgh. This route was blocked by the 19th-century insertion of the railway. The present County Place, York Place and Glasgow Road is a nineteenth-century insertion. The present Princes Street and Edinburgh Road is an 18th-century insertion. This is clearer on Rutherford’s map of 1774. The metal markers also indicate the site of The Necessary, a circular cast-iron public convenience built directly over the Canal Crescent branch of the town lade, which continued the line of the town’s defensive ditch as a stone culvert. The culvert still exists underground. The Necessary appears on a number of early photographs of Perth, but was taken away as an obstruction to traffic, and perhaps also as an offence to public decency. [information supplied by David Bowler, PSNS]
At the corner of Kinnoull Street and Murray Street stands Perth Congregational Church which has three war memorial plaques inside the entrance hall on Kinnoull Street.
Our 2022 AGM will be held at 11.00am on Saturday 24th September in the Threshold Hall of St John the Baptist Episcopal Church, Princes St, Perth PH2 8LJ. Parking is available in the Canal Street car park adjacent to the church. Agenda Welcome to all Members to the meeting To note the Apologies as received To note the outcome of the meeting held on 9 November 2019 and activities since To receive the Co Chair’s Report To receive the Financial Report of the Perth Civic Trust for the year to 31 March 2022 and 2021 To receive nominations and appoint…