Does anyone remember in what year the Poplar Avenue was planted?

I think it was called Alma Avenue

I remember this well. Poplar Avenue . Are all the trees down now? Did the pavement reach the village of Weem? 🤔

Good photo there was bus stop near toll house used by boltachan residents

Traveled up and down that road in the 50's going to school in the 🚌

Travelled along that avenue in the bus a few times back in the day.

Great to see. !

Ah, yes. I remember it well!

Our walk to school Ewan Campbell

...think i've shared this link afore, no sure; it lists everywhere in the country where it's been verified curling has taken place. zoom in on the map and each location hus supporting evidence (for instance, there wus a curling pond on the top o drummond hill (!), verified by a newspiece fae the perthshire advertiser in 1847, and details of a match in fearnan atween killin and meggernie, reported in the same paper fae feb 1900)...fantastic resource...https://sites.google.com/view/historicalcurlingplaces/scottish-places

I remember loads of curling ponds around Aberfeldy sadly all gone.

I'll bet those walls heard a few stories...

There used to be a curling pond beside the Mains farm just down on the left hand side opposite Grandtully Castle..my late dad played on the pond with all the farmers and land owners.. But it's gone.. I don't know if any of the curling shed remains..

Is that Pitilie Sheena?

There was one just opposite the scout/guide hut near the health centre and another up the Birks on the other side of the burn before the car park.

Show how our winter's have changed, a definite sign of climate change. 🤔

Just found this group! Do you have any pics of the Donald Crisp plaque that I believe to be in Aberfeldy??

I use to go down with my Father we use to all take a Tilly lamp and hang them on the wire which runs down the rink

Interesting. Seen that hut many times and never knew.

Bob, may be of interest

The car park for the Taybank now ☺️

Very interesting. !

Not sure if this was taken before or after that posted but may include some of the scenes George Seator mentions. (Mike)https://movingimage.nls.uk/film/2677?search_term=Ben%20Lawers%20snow&search_join_type=AND&search_fuzzy=yes

We only went "skiing" once and it was on Ben Lawers. We hired skis from the Youth Hostel at Garth. That would be about 1965/66. Never ever tried it again. (Sheena)

Coire Odhar was a really strong contender for the Scottish Ski Club's first perminant tow. It's high, near a road, and isn't exposed to a significant avalanche risk that often. However, they decided the spring snow patch just wasn't big enough, and chose Meall a'Bhuiridh (Glen Coe) instead. Imagine what a different place is might have been if the tow had been built there. There's a good chance a full on ski area would have grown up around it. Can you imagine Aberfeldy as a ski town?! There was an effort a few years ago to reinstate the ski hut up there. A lunch hut in the winter, and a ranger base in the summer. The National Trust weren't having it though, and made it quite clear it will never be rebuilt!

I remember going skiing there with the school in the 60's We stayed in the Lawers Primary school which had been closed and reopened as a hostel. It was a brilliant weekend

Remember being taken up there in the late sixties with Mr and Mrs Thomson the jewellers and Larry (Bruce ) Lawson the metalwork teacher among others. Managed to tear my knee ligaments up there one time. That knee still playing up now😟

I remember my brother went skiing on Ben Lawers I think in the late 1950s with wooden skis and poles. Nothing fancy in thise days.

I saw a segment on a TV show about this a few years ago. Not sure which programme though. I'm sure it contained original film footage. Robin Menzies was the local person interviewed about it.

Very interesting - do you know when this was?

Used to be the old scottish ski club hut in coire odhar, remember it there in the late 80’s !

Ken Barnett the article mentions 'lochs daimh and giorra', which, when flooded created loch an daimh on the building o the giorra dam. construction wus started in 1951 so must predate that...if that's any help.

Skied there when in 1st yr at Breadalbane Academy

There was an old tractor with winch to pull skiers up

Another really interesting post, like to see them

Emma Pitchforth - makes me think of the little hill at Taymouth Castle entrance.

Or go to this page archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/archives/view/sair/volumes.cfm and scroll down to [Atkinson, J (2016) 'Ben Lawers: An Archaeological Landscape in Time. Results from the Ben Lawers Historic Landscape Project, 1996–2005'. Scottish Archaeology Internet Report 62.] (Mike)

Let me know if that link doesn't work. (Mike)

Thanks Mike , great information, hope you are all well up there !!

"It (the beaker pictured above) is most likely to date to the third quarter of the 3rd millennium bc: a radiocarbon-dated AOC Beaker from Sorisdale, on Coll, closely comparable in shape and design but for the presence of horizontal lines inside the rim, has recently been dated to 3879±32 bp (2470–2230 cal bc at 2m: Sheridan 2007: 97, 109). This means that the Balnahanaid Beaker may be among the earliest Beakers in Scotland, dating to a time when their use was rare." just trawling through the link above. the beaker people and their practises were, until this work, thought to be coastal-based. this find is classed as highly significant by the paper. other evidence uncovered suggests people have been working the land since the 9th millenium bc...fascinating.