Aberfeldy Cottage HospitalThe History of The Aberfeldy Cottage Hospital; Gifted by the friends of the cottage hospital
Learn MoreThree gentlemen enjoying the Weem Sunday School barbecue in 1999. Thanks again to Charlie Thom for this. (tommy)
Thanks to Bill Nicholson for this photograph taken about 1936. He's looking for the location of these cottages. Is this Chapelton near Killiechassie? (Mike)
Andy Shearer - do you know where this is? ☺️
We don’t recognise them, but many such houses were hidden from the road in that area.
Chapelton was jus a guess on my part. It is thought to be local but could be anywhere. (Mike)
My initial thoughts were around Laganasgair and looking at it again it also looks like a walled garden maybe even heated as there are two tallish chimneys. All info greatly received.
Definitely not Chapelton.
Very interesting. !
It's a house in the middle of the.
Many thanks to Donald Riddell for sending us some very interesting photographs, including this one of Fortingall village before 1903. (Mike)
My late Grandma and Grandad used to live at Kirkton Cottages with the thatched roofs in the 1980's. Went every year during summer to visit with mum and dad and sister for 2 weeks. So peaceful and me and my sister enjoyed many times in the small playground which was halfway up this road on the left (in the picture) and feeding the horses sugar cubes at the the small farm (bottom left of this picture). Also seeing swallows in the bus shelter and spending family time in Fortingall hotel bar!!😊
No thatched cottages then
Wow, nice how some things don't change that much! (My Mum, Myra Brydone was christened in the Church there,in 1909.)
Note no memorial hall at that time - fascinating
Great photo!
It's nice to see old Fortingall. 😃
Very interesting !
Linda Menzies Hunter. Xx
Staying with the Loch Tay Steamboat theme, a rare photograph of the Loch Tay Cargo boat the 'S.S. Sybilla' obscuring the Lady of the Lake, at Kenmore Pier. The Sybilla was built of local larch wood, 56 ft x 11.25 ft, 22 Tons Gross. The Loch Tay steamboat service resumed after the Great War, run by Caledonian Steam Packet Co. Ltd., the Sybilla making her regular run to Killin on Monday, the 20th of February, 1922. By 1929, it was all over for the Sybilla and she was broken up at Kenmore. (Mike)
Yes that was so sad ! My parents saw a boat not sure which one lying beside the pier in Kenmore ready to be broken up.😥
How good would this be today?
I think the old boiler on the shore on Sybilla island might have belonged to her. The steam engine is sitting underwater not far away I believe. The machinery could also have belonged to the steam yacht Alma.
Really amazing
Thanks again to Culture Perth and Kinross for a fine photograph of one of the Loch Tay Steamboats, year unknown Shows just how busy these boats were. Think this 'The Lady of the Lake' at Killin Pier but happy to be corrected. (Mike)
That is definitely The Lady of The Lake ..I have a similar picture of the boat in 1903..
Every night in my dreams I see you, I feel you That is how I know you go on
Yes, looking at the rudder set up it appears to be a single screw. The Queen had two.
...it certainly looks the only pier shaped like that on the loch...https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=17&lat=56.47990&lon=-4.30173&layers=168&b=1
My mother, born in Aberfeldy in 1911, told me that her mother nearly fell in the loch, either getting on or off, the steamer one dark night in Killin.
It seems we took a step backward in stopping all the ferries. But I suppose the motor car was becoming popular and the ferries no longer viable..
Very interesting. !