NEWSLETTER ISSUE 24 SUMMER 2008

A 1920s Mobile Library; was the first county to adopt them

CONTENTS : Notes from the Chair and Archive News Page 2 How our Libraries and Local Studies evolved 4 Perth’s Eighteenth Century Seaborne Trade 7 ’s Forgotten Photographer 12 Prize Crossword 16

See you on the Summer Outing in July? For details see p.2

Notes from our Chair

Our 2007-2008 session seemed to pass very quickly indeed. Does time fly when one's enjoying oneself?

The past year has had several highlights. Thanks to an excellent programme we have been treated to some fascinating talks on a great variety of subjects within the unifying theme of local and Scottish history. As you will see from the programme for 2008-2009 enclosed with this Newsletter, we can look forward to some equally stimulating talks next year. The work of the volunteers has continued quietly, but usefully. We were most gratified to receive the accolade from the Society of Information Technology Management (SOCTIM) on the Perth Burial Registers database which is available on the Archive webpages. SOCTIM praised the website as being particularly innovative. Congratulations to Vera Purves and Marjory and John Howat, who have worked so hard on this project.

The Friends' outside activities - manning a stall at the Scottish Records Association and assisting in the Library's Family Fun Day - were enjoy- able in themselves - but these activities can also raise the profile of the Friends and help us to recruit further members.

By the way, copies of the Constitution with the new wording approved by the Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator (OSCR) can be consulted in the Archive search room, as can agendas and minutes of our AGMs and general meetings.

As for the AGM held on 22 May, the Friends confirmed the appointment of Mr Donald Abbott as our third Honorary President. We are delighted that he has agreed to serve in this capacity and we look forward to his continued involvement with the Friends. The Committee's recommendation to raise subscription rates was not taken lightly, but the simple truth is that the FPKCA is living above its income. My thanks to the Friends for approving the increase

If you have the opportunity, you may like to visit the Family History Event, and the FPKCA stall there, in the Glassite Hall, Dundee, on Saturday 13 September. We resume our meetings on Thursday 18 Septem- ber at 6.30pm with a talk from Dr Charles Waterston on the Sandemans of Springland. Meantime, may I wish you all a very pleasant summer? Margaret Borland Stroyan

Have a great day out with the Friends on the 2008 Summer outing to DRUMMOND CASTLE GARDENS AND KEEP Monday 21 July 2008 meeting there at 10.30 am The morning will begin with a guided tour of the 15th century Keep, followed by a tour on a horti- cultural theme with the Head Gardener. The visit will end with a small picnic lunch in the castle grounds provided by the Friends. Space is limited to 20 persons, so the basis of allocation is first come, first served. Warning; the stairs in the Keep are very steep and uneven and do not have a handrail. Price: £10 per person, payable on booking. Contact the Archive (01738 477012) for a form. 2 Archive News

Here at the Archive, we try to encourage future generations of archivists by offering work- placements to students who need the experience before they can enroll on one of the archive and records management diploma courses. Since January, we’ve been fortunate to have John Watson working with us for one day a week, and we’re trying to show him what we do, how and why we do it, from re-shelving materials to answering enquiries to arranging and listing collections. So, thanks to John’s hard work, newly available and fully arranged and listed is the small collec- tion, MS285 Tulloch Angling Club whose records contain informa- tion about the club and the competitions they took part in between 1889-1956. We also have an accession for Angling Club, so I think John will go on to list this collection (although I’m not sure if he’s actually that interested in fishing – still, the experience will be good for him!).

Other additions to the miscellaneous MS14 collection include 'Origins of the Public Library Movement with Special Reference to Perth' and 'Scottish Wills 17th century, District of Perthshire' which is a transcript of condensed testaments taken from Commissariot Court records. There's also a bound collection of copied documents, 'Kinclaven Bridge over the River Tay at ' which chart the bridge's construction by consulting engineering firm, Formans and McCall. Finally, we've added a transcription edited by Mary Lutyens of 'Effie Ruskin's Letters from Venice 1849-1852' which form part of the Bowerswell Papers in the Pierpont Library, New York.

As always, we’re grateful for the constant deposits to the Archive; recent ones have included school board minutes, letter book and parochial board minutes for parish, 1852-1930. And one deposit that I’m particularly excited about is a collection of hard copy and digital images of Auchterarder's main and side streets as well as aerial shots of the town and surrounding area plus sections of merged photographs showing the High Street. These are the images taken be- tween 2004-2007 for the Awards for All Lottery funded project, Snapshot Auchterarder.

Another accession is the letters of Samuel Black Watson, 1913-1918, written during Black’s time in the Army and when he was on sick leave. From the few I’ve glanced at, they provide an insight into the minutae of daily concerns which doesn’t really get recorded anymore in this age of instant communication. I might let John have a go at listing these, but I’m tempted to just keep them to do myself!

Jan Merchant

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Sara Ann Kelly, Local Studies Librarian, tells us How Perthshire’s Libraries and Local Studies Evolved

In this article I will try to outline the progression of the library service in Perth & Kin- ross from the very early establishment of libraries to the current situation of the Local Studies Department within the service.

Libraries have been a feature of the Perthshire cultural landscape from as early as 1664 at Innerpeffray and in the town of Perth from at least 1784. We can tell from re- search carried out on the Statistical Accounts that libraries were much more widespread than today (although we don’t know how small a collection was considered worthy of the name). We are lucky to still have a few of the origi- nal books from the Perth Literary & Antiquarian Society, the first Perth Library, in our rare books section.

In the nineteenth century most parishes had their own collection of books, and libraries began to be set up by employers as well as by venerable institutions such as the Mechanics Institute. But it wasn’t until the bequest of Archibald Sandeman in the 1890’s that Perth took advantage of the 1853 Public Libraries Act to build the Sandeman Library, in which the stocks of many existing libraries were brought together, as well as books obtained through a library’s right to levy a penny rate.

The success of the Sandeman may have encouraged the Carnegie Trust to support an experi- mental County Library Service, which soon become the responsibility of the Education Au- thority. In their hands the service developed rapidly, so that by 1954 it was looking after no less than 213 branches and centres, although many of these were very small village units.

Today, they have nearly all been replaced by visits from a mobile library - a new idea that the Perthshire County Library Service pioneered as early as 1920 (the magnificent vehicle on our front cover was an example from this period). This idea for giving a better service to outlying communities was taken up very quickly by other counties across the country and has evolved continuously since those early days.

In the early part of the twentieth century, towns such as Blairgowrie, and had already founded their own autonomous libraries, but by 1971 they had all opted to become part of the County service, to which the Sandeman Library was also amalgamated just before Local Government reorganisation in 1974. 4

Top hats, flat caps; a huge crowd at the foundation ceremony of the Sandeman Library in 1896

Not long after the Sandeman opened, it began to receive donations and bequests of local signifi- cance, which considerably improved its existing collections and which much later would be- come the basis of the local studies stock. Most notable of these collections was the the extraor- dinary private library of the Perth historian and local author Robert Scott Fittis in 1906. Local Studies would be poor indeed if his collection had not come to the Sandeman, as we constantly refer to his own books and pamphlets on local history as well as those he collected.

The next substantial donation of books did not happen until 1933 when the City of de- cided that the Mackintosh Library (which had been bequeathed to them over a hundred years before) would be safer in the confines of the relatively new Perth library. Consisting of over a thousand volumes ranging in date from the 1500’s to the 1830’s, this collection provides an in- sight both into the minds of a jacobite antiquarian of the late eighteenth century and the avail- able reading matter for public library readers in the early nineteenth century. The Rev Donald Mackintosh, the originator of the library, acquired tomes that must have been rare and valuable in his time and are certainly regarded as treasures now. For instance, on the next page is a detail of the map of Speed’s geography of 1676, which denies the existence of Perth by simply omit- ting it.

Shortly after this donation another bequest in 1938 brought the fantastic “Atholl collection” to the Sandeman, thanks to the will of Lady Dorothea Ruggles Brise, who was an avid collector of sheet music, poetry and dances. This collection, which was catalogued by Sheila Douglas and students, contains both rare manuscripts and printed books covering the last three hundred years. A ‘tune index’ of the music is currently being compiled by a volunteer and we hope that this 5

Detail from Speed’s 1676 map of , minus Perth, from the Mackintosh collection

Editor’s Note: Was this less an error than a deliberate exclusion? Speed’s map appears to be a work of propaganda. It was made at the height of Charles II’s campaign to impose a hierarchy of bishops and landowners’ patronage against the wishes (and often, quite literally, over the dead bod- ies) of Presbyterians. It showed a Scotland divided into bishoprics, and gave prominence to places like Scone with strong royalist or episcopalian attachments. Was Perth, a militantly Presbyterian town in a county dominated by royalist landowners, a blot to be expunged and replaced by Scone? will help with access to the collection. Other donations which have been housed in Local Studies include the Young Collection, the Brough collection, Pullar’s collection and the Keith collection.

The Local Studies department didn’t actually exist as a separate entity in the Sandeman Library until 1983 when Dr Margaret Stewart donated her collection of maps to the library and inspired the librarians to make use of the neglected third floor. By the time the AK Bell was built, Local Studies was sufficiently established to warrant its own area with lift access and very pleasant sur- roundings. Fourteen years on, the department is now full and we would have great difficulty in accommodating any large bequests such as the Atholl or Mackintosh collections, although we are constantly adding individual items of local interest.

Although the main aim of the department has not changed – to collect and preserve the published history of the Perth & Kinross area – the introduction of digital equipment means that we can im- prove access to our collections and hopefully reduce the use of delicate originals. The internet and digital publishing are now allowing us to make knowledge of our collections available any- where in the world, but people will still have to come and visit us to see the original articles – there is no substitute. I look forward to seeing you soon. Sara Ann Kelly

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Perth’s Ships, Trade and Merchants in the Eighteenth Century

DC McWhannell

Trade and shipping have been central to the development of Perth throughout its history. The destinations of trading voyages remained fairly constant from one century to the next; Scandina- via, the Baltic, the Low Countries, France and England. However, over the years Perth experi- enced great fluctuations in its prosperity. The Wars of Independence (1297-1304 and 1306-1328) had seen the collapse of a once flourishing trade with England. Then, during the next century, trade revived; Perth became a great exporter of raw wool, and the port of Perth was considered to be the fifth largest in Scotland. However, this was followed by another major reversal; by the late fifteenth century, Perth’s overseas trade had halved in value, to the point where in 1560 Perth was described as ‘a dry town far from the sea’.

Recovery soon followed; during the later 1500s Perth had become a craft-based town, with a third of its exports consisting of cloth, and Perth ships were recorded as sailing to Baltic ports such as Danzig to fetch ‘Osmand iron’, pitch and potash. However, this involvement in seaborne trading did not last, so that by the mid seventeenth century the citizens of Perth owned not one sea-going ship, even when its linen exports were being valued in 1689 at £40,000 per annum.

After the Jacobite risings of 1715 and 1745, and in particular after the social convulsions following on the ‘45’ rebellion, the population of Perth increased, an indicator of general prosperity. So with the ending of the Seven Years War (1756-1763), prospects for overseas trade appear to have im- proved. Indeed, the linen trade of Perth was now greater than that of the whole of the rest of Scot- land. It would seem that conditions were right for leading citizens of Perth to re-establish them- selves in their historic trades and to exploit new demands for their services as shipowners and shipmasters.

The reinvigoration of Perth's seagoing trade in these years is abundantly documented in Perth Council Archive’s PE25 collection, papers created and held by the Perth Council's Navigation Committee and its predecessors. The documents for the years from 1759 to 1775 describe the trading activities of some Perth families during the peaceful interval following the Seven Years War. There is a richness of detail in the eighteen bundles so far examined (numbering some 800 documents} that sheds much light on the commercial and legal conditions of the place and the pe- riod, and give abundant clues to the character and qualities of some of its merchants, captains, cus- tomers, suppliers and their lawyers.

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The great majority of the documents in PE25 are maritime trade papers - bills of lading, contracts, orders, accounts, port charges and the like - mainly relating to the Brown family of shipowners and sea-captains, and the European voyages of their vessels, particularly the Owner's Goodwill and the William and Mary (later the Margaret). Other documents deal with the ships themselves, their tonnages, maintenance, equipment and provisioning, although their crews rarely make an appear- ance. There are also a number of letters on business and private matters; some deal with Brown family affairs and the relationships and responsibilities of its members, but mostly they concern people involved in the trade with Europe, particularly with Sweden and the low countries. One of these refers, obliquely, to smuggling. Although the majority are written in English, a number of documents are written in Dutch, Swedish and French or printed in English and French, reflecting the commonplace nature of continental trade.

Complementing the material in our archive, there are collections in other archives that add consid- erably to our knowledge of the Perth-based trade, and of the leading merchant families involved in it. Of prime importance are the Richardson of Pitfour Papers deposited in the National Library of Scotland (Acc.5726) which have been examined in some depth and the earlier years of the Richardson’s business activities reported on in some detail by Dr ARB Haldane. The papers con- sist of the surviving letter books, ledgers, journals, and miscellaneous papers of the shipping and fish curing enterprise owned by the Richardson family. John Richardson of Perth and later of Pit- four (1760-1821) is known to have been in business from before 1760. The papers held in the Na- tional Library, however, start in 1760 and finish in 1817. In those years the Richardson family had a wide business supplying salmon throughout Europe and also an important shipping business. They often freighted ships from others, but also owned their own vessels. John Richardson also took an interest in the design of ships.*

Another useful archival source is the sailing journal of Captain Alexander Gillespie of Anstruther, Fife, for the period 1662 to 1685.** This gives significant information on navigation from the ______*The Perth vessel William and Mary, later renamed the Margaret, which is mentioned frequently in the PE25 archive, also appears in the Richardson Papers. The vessel was carrying 200 barrels of salmon on behalf of Richardson. This cargo may be directly compared with the 217 full barrels and 3 half barrels of salmon carried by the same ship, but by then renamed the Margaret, for a voyage to Campvere in Septem- ber 1771 (see PE25/Bundle114). In that a full salmon barrel was considered to weigh 4 hundredweights, it is reasonable to suggest that the William and Mary/Margaret had a cargo capacity of somewhat over 40 tons. This makes an interesting contrast to the declared tonnage of the Margaret given in PE25/Bundle 108 as 24 tons (however, in PE25 Bundle 114, a landwaiter (port official) states that the vessel is ‘of fifty tons burden’). Were owners perhaps over- or under-declaring their tonnages for financial reasons—for in- stance, to minimise ‘Lighthouse’ dues?

**‘The Diary of Alexander Gillespie begun on the 10th April 1662’ is held by St. Andrews University Li- brary, Department of Special Collections as MS38352. The material it contains has been transcribed and edited be Professor Colin Martin and Dr Paula Martin with a view to future publication. 8

View on the Tay by David Octavious Hill ©Perth Museum and Art Gallery, Perth & Kinross Council. Licensor www.scran.ac.uk

Forth to landfalls on the coasts of Western Europe and the British Isles, ranging from as far as Königsberg in the east to Bordeaux in the west and as far North as Bergen. Although written in the previous century, it retains its relevance; there is much in common between the routes sailed and the goods carried by Andrew Gillespie’s ships and the vessels of Captain Brown and others of Perth between 1759 and 1775. However, although his diary is a useful source of detailed navigational information, the contents of the Perth documents are gener- ally more commercially and legally instructive.

The first half of the eighteenth century saw major developments in Scottish seaborne trade. In western Scotland from 1718 onwards, Clyde-based ships were playing a major role in trade with the American and West Indian colonies. In eastern Scotland, while much of the trade was between Scotland and England, commerce with continental Europe was now more wide-ranging than before. As well as the familiar northern ports, Scottish traders now ven- tured as far as Rouen, Bordeaux and Marseilles in France, Bilbao, Lisbon and Alicante in the Iberian Peninsula and even Leghorn (Livorno) and Venice in Italy.

The pioneers of this resurgence were merchants like Baillie John Stewart of Inverness. Be- tween 1715 and 1753 he was not only active in miscellaneous local trade around the east and west coasts of Scotland but also in overseas trade to Rotterdam and Bordeaux.* East Coast vessels from Aberdeen, Montrose, Dundee and Leith even ventured across the Atlantic.

*Interestingly, Baillie Stewart’s letter-books give an early indication of a system of financing trade using ‘Bills of Exchange’. Such Bills of Exchange were routinely being used in the Perth trade as well, as documents in the Perth collection, PE25, clearly show. 9

Perth from Boatlands by David Octavious Hill ©Perth Museum and Art Gallery, Perth & Kinross Council. Licensor www.scran.ac.uk

Montrose merchants in particular were quite successful in the Atlantic tobacco trade. John Richardson of Perth began trading in miscellaneous goods in the manner of the pioneers, al- though by the 1760s had begun to specialise in the salmon business. At one time he even tried his hand at the Atlantic trade too, when he freighted the St. Johnston of 100 tons burden with a miscellaneous cargo for Philadelphia. However, it was a commercial failure and he never repeated it.

But this failure illustrates Perth’s fundamental disadvantage as a port - its location, particu- larly for the Atlantic trade. It lay at the limit of navigation, on a shallow tidal estuary on the east coast of Scotland. The sandbanks and shoal waters of the Tay above Dundee, and par- ticularly above Newburgh, meant that of necessity Perth’s ships were small and of shallow draft, and therefore too uneconomic to compete across the Atlantic. For the same fundamen- tal disadvantage, Perth’s shipowners were also excluded from activities such as whaling, which expanded hugely from other Scottish ports after 1750.

Possibly for the same reason, shipbuilding was not commonly carried out at Perth. The Perth-owned vessels were therefore generally bought in from elsewhere. Some ships were specific new builds, as can be seen from the vessels ordered from Harwich by John Richard- son in 1763, but many of the Perth based vessels are likely to have been pre-owned. As can 10 be seen from documents in PE25, Perth’s ships were often repaired at Newburgh or Dundee and mostly by Dundee based craftsmen. Neither, it seems, was sailmaking generally practised at Perth, and sails, ropes, rigging and ground tackle were normally sourced from ports such as Dun- dee, Montrose, Leith and Rotterdam.

Perth’s general European trade had similarities with that of Leith, Dundee, Arbroath, Montrose Aberdeen and others, in that it mainly involved northern European ports. In contrast, Richard- son’s specialist trade in salmon took his ships to Southern Europe and the Mediterranean. But although he managed to maintain a dominant position in the trade, he was eventually faced with increasing competition from Aberdeen, Newfoundland and Ireland in supplying salmon to the European markets.

However, competition between merchants did not exclude participation in networks such as ex- patriate Scottish merchant communities, in Gothenburg and Rotterdam in particular, who cooper- ated closely with their Perth colleagues. Perth merchants were also much involved with the Dundee, Leith and Edinburgh merchant, shipping and legal communities, and had significant links to early banking houses such as Coutts & Co. and The British Linen Bank

However, there is a large blank page in the record: while the Perth archive is rich in detail about the lives of the merchants, sea captains, lawyers and others, the crewmen of the Perth vessels are hardly ever mentioned. Something is known of what they ate on board ship and of their meagre wages and in one instance we learn of the minimal possessions of an individual who was lost, or went missing. Otherwise, however, nothing of their lives appears.

Acknowledgements The author wishes to thank all those persons who helped and encouraged him in this research, and in particular Stephen Connelly and his staff in the archive room of the A.K. Bell Library, Perth.

DC McWhannell

FACTS AND FANCIES

This year, as in past years, the Friends have supported a publication based on archival material - a grant towards the printing of Facts and Fancies, by Thomas Stewart (1827- 1902). This comprises "A rambling autobiographical sketch plus Recreations in Rhyme by an Auchterarder weaver boy". Tom Stewart, a very widely-read man with strong po- litical views and a deep love of the Lang Toon, produced a delightful hand-written and hand-illustrated book, which has been edited by his great-granddaughter, Mrs Moira Cherrie. Facts and Fancies is on sale at the Library shop at £4.99. 11

PITLOCHRY'S FORGOTTEN PHOTOGRAPHER Paul Cameron 1840-1908

Some years ago my interest was aroused by a photograph of a boat being launched in Loch Ran- noch. The picture was framed but the name, Frank Henderson, was clearly visible at the foot of the heavy card mount. A good many elderly people in the Pitlochry area can recall having their child- hood portrait taken in Frank Henderson's studio in Bonnethill Road, opposite Scotland's Hotel but I know that the event on the shores of had taken place in the early 1880s, many years before Henderson came to Pitlochry. So who had taken the photograph and why was Henderson's name on it? My researches revealed that there were two photographers in Pitlochry in the early 1900s prior to the arrival of Henderson, namely Charles Gardener and Paul Cameron. Gardener, who belonged to Moulinearn, spent a couple of years in Australia and South Africa before return- ing to Scotland around 1900 to set up a photographic studio but he died in 1907, aged only 44. Paul Cameron died the following year, but he was 68 years of age and had had a successful pho- tographer's business in the town for many years.

Paul Cameron was born in 1840, one of the sons of Peter Cameron who farmed Ardlarich on the north shores of , and his second wife Janet Campbell. Paul attended school in the nearby village of Killichonan and sometime in the 1860s moved to Kinloch Rannoch where he set up a photographer's business in an old cottage near the smithy.

Early portraits taken in his studio were very basic as he initially appeared to use very simple props, but he was willing to travel to people's houses to take their pictures, such as a gamekeeper and family who later emigrated to America, or a group picture of the servants standing in front of a large house. It is unlikely that many of the wealthy visitors who came to fish and shoot in the Rannoch area would have had their photographs taken in Cameron's small studio but his souvenir pictures of the area probably sold well.

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However, with limited business prospects in Rannoch, around 1873 Paul Cameron moved to the bustling town of Pitlochry and built a studio on Bonnethill Road. The front of the prem- ises was a shop while the studio and darkroom were at the rear. Seven years later he moved a short distance down the street and built a new, considerably larger studio. Again the shop was entered from the street, and the darkroom was at the rear of the building, but the new studio was upstairs in a room with large windows which gave maximum light for portraiture. Cameron gradually acquired more elaborate props including a wide variety of painted backdrops, furniture, sections of ivy- covered mock walls, pot plants, books, ornaments and drapes, all of which made his portraits much more pleasing to the eye.

Both locals and visitors thronged his studio and many of the resulting cartes de visites and larger portraits are now treasured by family members who are fascinated to see what their great grandparents looked like in the Victorian era. Cameron also took many photographs on some of the local estates and the Archive at Blair Castle has numerous pictures taken by him, principally of the Atholl Highlanders and groups of hobnail booted keepers and stalkers, but also of the ducal family. Very early photograph of Mrs Duncan These pictures are beautifully mounted using the best quality, Campbell, wife of the Kinloch Rannoch bevelled gilt-edged card. schoolmaster, whose house was called Taigh na bruaich, showing how basic Paul Cameron’s studio props But it is the photographs giving tantalising glimpses of the were at first streets and buildings of late 19th century highland Perthshire that are of the greatest general interest today, including those showing Pitlochry in the 1870s and slightly later excellent panoramic views of both Pitlochry and Kinloch Rannoch, both of which inevita- bly involved carrying heavy equipment up steep hills to reach the required view points. Many photos can only be dated approximately but occasionally it is possible to pin-point individual images such as two sets of pho- tos taken in 1881, showing the launching of the ill-fated SS Gitana and the semi-ruinous cottage in Kinloch Rannoch which had been occupied in the 18th century Roundel on the reverse of a carte-de-visite, with the by the schoolmaster, evangelist and Gaelic sacred poet Gaelic for ‘Paul Cameron, Photographer, Pitlochry’ , just before it was demolished. probably used for one of his many Gaelic-speaking clients 13

The Cottage in Kinloch Rannoch which was at one time occupied by Dugald Buchanan, shortly before being demolished in 1881 This last picture must have been especially poignant to Paul Cameron as he had a deep interest in Gaelic. A native speaker of Perthshire Gaelic, he was a noted Gaelic scholar and an active member of the Gaelic Society of Perth. He collected examples of the work of Perthshire Gaelic songs and their composers, particularly from Rannoch, and in 1891 and 1893 presented papers on the subject to the Gaelic Society of Inverness which were published in the transactions of that society.

In 1908 Paul Cameron died and his business was taken over by a young man from Ayrshire, Frank Henderson. Henderson acquired all the glass plates which his predecessor had accumulated over the years, and now and again he reprinted some of the old pictures which he thought would sell well, in- cluding the launching of the Gitana, and he put his own name on the mounts. Around the 1950s Hen- derson offered the obsolete glass plates to anyone who wanted them, and I have been told that numer- ous cold frames and at least one greenhouse in Pitlochry were glazed with them. The remainder of the plates were smashed. Thanks to Henderson's work, some of the old street scenes and panoramic views have survived, but the name of the man who originally took these pictures was completely forgotten.

Paul Cameron was buried in Camghouran, the traditional burial ground of Rannoch Camerons. He was proud of his roots, his language and his native county, and he left us a small but fascinating legacy, photographic glimpses of some of the people and life in highland Perthshire from the 1860s to the early 1900s, and for this reason I feel that Paul Cameron deserves to be remembered.

I would be delighted to hear from anyone who has more information about Paul Cameron or has photo- graphs taken by him which they are willing to show me. Sylvia Robertson

NOTE: Especially in view of the subject matter of this article, it’s most unfortunate that for technical reasons, partly to do with the nature and age of the originals, it has not been possible to make better reproductions of them. DW 14 Pitlochry’s main street in the early 1870s

Pitlochry’s main street in the 1870s

Dr William Stewart Irvine in his carriage along Pitlochry’s main street, early 1890s

Friends of Perth & Kinross Council Archive Honorary Presidents: The Provost of Perth & Kinross Council Sir William Macpherson of Cluny and Blairgowrie Mr Donald Abbott Scottish Charity No. SCO31537 AK Bell Library York Place PERTH PH2 8EP Tel: (01738) 477012 Email: [email protected] Editor: David15 Wilson PRIZE CROSSWORD

First, apologies to people who couldn’t finish last issue’s puzzle because of two missing clues. We have red faces - or should that be Ed’s farce (anag)? Be assured that the puzzle below has been thoroughly proof-read! The prize is still the new edition of Edinburgh’s Scots Dictionary (a must-have for every Scottish household) or any book of equivalent value. This puzzle is cryptic, and Perthshire people, places and the past may well figure in it.

ACROSS DOWN 1 Address player; get impertinent response (4, 4) 1 Perthshire companies under threat; pessimistic 5 With no effort, team gets a century—a record? (4) look-out ? (3, 5, 5) 8 Final ‘happening’ commonplace without us (8) 2 Reels drunkenly, giving a lecherous smile (5) 9 Linnean sycamore in post-operative care (4) 3 Stand up against taking big bass wind back (4) 10 Scottish landscape feature, finished in a dull ochre (4) 4 In far SW Perthshire, Dochart Falls area sounds lethal ((6) 12 Rolls and heels over (5) 6 I take a year out in a sort of ranch in ancient Tayport (7) 14 Here's Paul's favourite pad, and related rubberware (7) 7 In rich lands beside estuary, rebuild a forge, sow rice (5, 2, 6) 15 Bearing nine, I lost (1. 1. 1) 9 After Bill passes, make a move (3) 16 A plot - by Charles II's councillors, initially (6) 11 Single units, in all honesty! (4) 19 At the end of the street, a very loud set of employees (5) 13 ‘Here thou, great Anna! whom three realms obey, 21 Takes some nerve initially to make new Bible version did sometimes council take, and sometimes....' (3) (1. 1. 1) 14 Jack's in a grand church hall (5) 23 Rebel Taysider in what some call a welcome return (7) 17 Sangs get global publicity (7) 25 Get some caramel chocolate from a Tayside castle ( 5) 18 His choice of Third Man was anything but! (4) 27 Turner, ‘Fifties film star, made name in Spanish Wool (4) 20 Ancient middle Eastern mound (or ancient Irish DJ?) (3) 29 Back part of mouth (4) 22 Climbed to top and removed the plaque (6) 30 Get another goal to even the score - or face death (8) 24 Feature of body (but it vanishes on rising ) (3) 31 The stew’s a right mess! (4) 26 Campbell of Lucknow worked in Braco Linen mill (5) 32 During the reel, for instance, sit out for some length (8) 16 28 Reverent greetings? Strictly for the birds! (4)