Wednesday 21 June 2023. We are on a coach holiday in the Scottish Highlands. "Beautiful Trossachs" someone said - I knew I shouldn't have worn that kilt in the wind...
Today we were to spend the day in Perth. The church is St John's Kirk - kirk being the Gaelic for church.
High Street. Perth Theatre is No.185, but this is now the rear entrance as the theatre address is Mill Street on the next street running parallel. It was opened in 1909 and extended in 1980.
In 2016 the extension was demolished and rebuilt and the entrance moved to Mill Street opposite the theatre's sister venue, Perth Concert Hall.
Also on High Street, lower down towards the River Tay is this cafe with an imaginative use of flowers. I'm not sure whether they were real or artificial but they do look good.
Between Nos. 13-15, an alleyway of 1699 with a dated pediment with carved head and the initials of RG (Robert Graham) and EC (Elizabeth Cunningham).
We walked down to the River Tay. This view is looking down Tay Street and the river itself is to our left. The church is St Matthew, 1871.
Smeaton's Bridge, aka the Old Bridge or in local dialect: the Auld Brig. A bridge had existed earlier but was demolished in 1621 and ferryboats had to be used until the construction of this bridge 1766-1771.
Having passed underneath the bridge via a pathway that dipped below road level, we came out to some gardens.
I started this sketch of St John's Kirk from the photograph seen earlier whilst we were sitting in the lounge one night. It didn't get finished until a fair few days after we got back and is pencil crayon over pencil drawing in the A4 sketch book.
Coming back to the hotel we stopped at Queen's View, a viewpoint over Loch Tummel that Queen Victoria had visited with Prince Albert. It was apparently on this trip that Albert decided to buy Balmoral.
Before starting the sketch of Perth, I finished the pencil sketch started the previous night of the view of Loch Tummel from the front lawn of the hotel.
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