Tayside Steam

Tayside Steam. 55 of Bill Smith's excellent photographs, accompanied by detailed captions, illustrate Tayside's railways in the last years of the steam era. Locations/stations featured include: Ballinluig, Tay Bridge, Dundee East, Barnhill, Camperdown Junction, Carnoustie, Elliot Junction, Arbroath, Montrose, St Cyrus, Bridge of Dun, Forfar, Kirriemuir, Blairgowrie, Almond Valley Junction, Almondbank, Crieff, Dunkeld, Aberfeldy, Killiecrankie, Blair Atholl, Perth, Muthill, Rumbling Bridge, Bridge of Earn and Dundee West. Tayside's Last Days of Steam.

Bygone Scone

Bygone Scone, Perthshire, Scotland. Scone occupies a special place in Scottish History as the location where Scottish monarchs were crowned and its association with the famous Stone of Destiny. However, these links do tend to overshadow the rest of Scone’s history such as the moving of the original village to a site two miles east, one of the most dramatic and complete new town developments, and it took place in the early 1800s! This book gives the full story of Scone and features over fifty photographs from the early years of the twentieth century. Bygone Scone.

Old Pitlochry Strathtummel and Rannoch

Old Pitlochry Strathtummel and Rannoch, Perthshire, Scotland. This collection of over fifty photographs, accompanied by a detailed history, captures the town and the surrounding area in the late-Victorian and Edwardian era. It was Queen Victoria's visit and her interest in the area which made Pitllochry fashionable for tourism. Visitor numbers increased dramatically after the arrival of the railway in the 1860s and the town we know today is basically a Victorian creation. Old Pitlochry, Strathtummel and Rannoch. Tour Scotland, on an Ancestry Tour of Scotland. Best Scottish Tours, Best Scottish Food, Best Scottish Hotels, Small Group Tours of Scotland.

Perthshire Lost Railways

Perthshire Lost Railways. Perthshire and Kinross-shire are two particularly picturesque areas of Scotland - they also once boasted many of the country's most remote railway stations, including Killin Junction which served a community accessible only by rail. As well as information on the counties' railway system before the Beeching era, this book contains 52 excellent, and very rare, photographs of stations at locations including Killin, Aberfeldy, Grandtully, Blairgowrie, Aberfoyle, Meigle, Lochearnhead, St Fillans, Bankfoot, Bridge of Earn, Doune, Crieff, Crianlarich and Coupar Angus. Perthshire and Kinross-shire's Lost Railways.

Old Perth

Old Perth, Scotland. The attractive city of Perth blossomed from the late eighteenth century onwards, aided by a new bridge across the Tay and later by the coming of the railways. Guthrie Hutton has included pictures in his book that show glimpses of Perth's now largely demolished medieval architecture, as well as some stunning views of extreme weather in the town. The Tay is well-known for flooding, and in addition to views of the 1910 spate there's a dramatic picture of houses in Scone that were undermined and collapsed when the Annaty Burn flooded in 1916. Even more amazing - and also illustrated - are the giant ice floes that formed on the Tay in January 1918. Elsewhere in the book the city's main streets and sights are well covered, along with a variety of more unusual views from the past. Old Perth. Tour Scotland, on an Ancestry Tour of Scotland. Best Scottish Tours, Best Scottish Food, Best Scottish Hotels, Small Group Tours of Scotland.

Bygone Perth

Bygone Perth, Scotland. Guthrie Hutton's second book on Perth for Stenlake features almost 180 archive photographs, accompanied by captions telling the story of the city's growth and development. There are pictures of well-known local businesses, life on and around the River Tay, sports being played on the Inches and a brief history of the dyeing industry in Perth. Trams, both horse-drawn and electric, are illustrated along with the city's train station and rolling stock in the days of steam locomotives. Devastating fires at Arthur Bell's bond and Peter Campbell's dyeworks are included, as are photographs of Perth's public fire brigade and Pullar's private one in the days when their engines were still pulled by horses. Craigie, Friarton, Craigend, Cherrybank, Quarrymill, Bridgend, Kinnoull, Corsiehill and Barnhill are featured too. Bygone Perth.

Old Kinross-shire

Old Kinross-shire, Scotland. The small and largely agricultural county of Kinross-shire has always enjoyed good communication links, and its market towns of Kinross and Milnathort provided coaching inns on the main Queensferry to Perth road in the days of the stagecoaches. The county has a distinguished architectural heritage, benefiting from the patronage of the Adam family who owned Blaircrambeth (later Blairadam) Estate, while also boasting both Loch Leven Castle and the impressive Kinross House, the latter designed by Sir William Bruce. As well as the two main towns, other locations illustrated include: Kinross Junction Station, Balado, Balgedie, Easter Balgedie, Kinnesswood, Scotlandwell, Blairadam Station, Cleish, Blairingone, Powmill, Rumbling Bridge (and Station), Crook of Devon, Carnbo, Tillyrie and Middleton. Old Kinross-shire.