The section of Scott Street between Canal Street and Victoria Street contains the dilapidated remains of the Co-operative Society Buildings built in 1895. Much of the upper floors are boarded up.
On the eastern side of the main North Inch flood gates, close to the Garden of Remembrance are two war memorial plaques. The right hand one records those employees of Perth Co-operative who fell in the First World War, together with a second panel below remembering three more servicemen and women who died in the Second World War.. On the left hand is a plaque to remember those who volunteered to fight in the Spanish Civil War. (1936-1939) The plaque, designed by Paul Philipou, bears a poem by William Soutar and is a dedication to the people of Perthshire who…