Alyth Voice 124th Edition, June 2008 Tel. 01828 633045 Minimum Circulation 1650 Email address: [email protected] Website: www.alythvoice.co.uk ALYTH & DISTRICT PIPE BAND ALYTH GALA DAY THANKYOU The committee and members of Alyth & District Pipe Band would like to thank everybody who came together to make the coffee morning the success that it SUNDAY 1st JUNE was. £812 was raised and we now have our very own cap badges as a result. Diamond Jubilee Park WELL DONE The Band came 10th out of 24 in competition at Dunbar on 10th May. Well done to everyone who took part (photo below). ‘G’ in the Park! WEBSITE Coming soon… www.alythpipeband.org.uk Gala Parade departs the Guide Hut, Airlie Place 12.30pm Official opening by Steven Robb (Alyth bred/Dundee Utd F.C.) Children’s Decorated Bicycle Competition The ‘Boobs and Brass’ Band Mains of Fintry Pipe Band Army Cadet Rifle Range Linda Grant Dancers Children’s Races Country Dancing Vintage Cars Birds of Prey Stilt Walkers Air Cadets Hill Race Catering Fun Fair © J. Macintyre Raffle Stalls © N. West ALYTH SHOW SATURDAY 14th JUNE South Balloch (near Glenisla Golf Club) Something for everyone! Judging begins Horses & Ponies 9am ~ Cattle & Sheep 10am Music Tent Pony Rides Bouncy Castle Industrial Tent Photos from Alyth Musical Society’s Phantom of the Country Opera Highland Dancing Novelty Pony class © N. West Prizewinning Stock Parade Alyth & District Pipe Band Various trade stands and stalls Vintage tractors & implements display Ceirans Canine Capers dog agility display Dog Show-proceeds to MacMillan Cancer Research Perthshire Highland Games Assoc. Heavyweight comp. MINIBUS from ALYTH SQUARE 12noon - 2pm to the show 4.30pm - 5.30pm from the show Entry: Adults £6, Children (12 & over) & Concessions £3 Primary School Children FREE Useful Telephone Numbers Airlie Street Hall (contact-Margaret Smith) - 01828 632256 ALYTH HEALTH CENTRE Blairgowrie Police Station - 01250 872222 NEW ALYTH ROAD, ALYTH, PH11 8EQ Perth Police Station - 01738 621141 Hydro-Electric Emergencies - 0800 300999 Telephone: 01828 632317 Scottish Gas Emergencies - 0800 111999 Scottish Water - 0845 6008 855 Repeat Prescription Line: 01828 633663 Alyth Post Office - 01828 632301 (24 hour answering machine) Alyth Health Centre - 01828 632317 Alyth Primary School - 01828 632462 Community Nurse: 01828 632425 Blairgowrie High School - 01250 873445 Alyth Environmental Group - 01828 632907 Health Visitor: 01828 633954 NHS 24—new 24 hour health service - 08454 24 24 24 Anti-social Behaviour Team - 01738 476173 Opening Hours - Monday to Friday 8am to 6pm If you offer an emergency or breakdown service, send the Voice your name and number. After Hours - NHS24 tel: 08454 24 24 24 ALYTH VOICE TEAM Late surgeries by appointment Editor: Tuesday/Wednesday/Thursday/Friday - 5pm to 6pm Paul Ramsay - 01828 632992 - [email protected] Early Surgeries by appointment Compositor/Secretary: Irene Robertson - 01828 633045 - [email protected] Blood Clinic - Monday/Wednesday - 8.30am to 9.30am Advertising: Pamela Luscombe - 01828 633693 - [email protected] THANKS FROM A.M.S. Marjory Macpherson & Margaret McKenzie Alyth Musical Society would like to thank everyone for their support for the re- Distribution: Paul & Barbara Prettyman - 01828 633725 cent Production of Phantom of the Opera. Treasurer: As Director I was pleased with what we did and feedback suggests the great Michael Kay - 01828 632252/632690 - [email protected] majority enjoyed the performances. Webmaster: Derek Todd - [email protected] I personally would like to thank the cast and backstage guys and front of house for making the week a success and all the hard work that went into the show. Pictures should be soon at our web site at www.alythmusical.com ARTICLE/ADVERT SUBMISSION to the Voice In order to avoid disappointment please ensure that articles/ads for publication are Of course not every show can be liked by everyone and hopefully if you did not submitted before the 21st day (16th for ads) of each month. Note: The views expressed like Phantom you will enjoy next year's offering. in the Alyth Voice are not necessarily those of the team nor can they accept any A small committee is currently ploughing its way through possibilities. We responsibility for accuracy and spelling of any article. Please note ALL articles must be accompanied with a name and address know many love the new shows while others wish for older material. BEFORE they will be published in the Voice. Choosing a new show is far from easy and several criteria have to be looked On request, the name and address may be withheld from publication. at. Namely is it suitable for the stage we have? Do we have the people who can Any submission without these details will NOT be included. do it? Is there enough for chorus? Believe you me you don't want a bored cho- rus as they can get up to all sorts of mischief if not gainfully employed on the stage. Is there too much choreography? Those devotees of the Society should *~*~* Dates for Your Diary *~*~* know we are not a 'dancing' company although Billy still thinks he can move like JUNE Due to the advance notice of these dates, please check for changes! Fred Astaire, and finally and hardest to solve is the question of finding young 1st Alyth Gala Day Diamond Jubilee Park leading men. Grant, who played young Skipper in Phantom helped us out as a 1st Fundraiser CRUK & MacMillan Cancer Primrose Hill (see p5) favour but had to travel to and from Carnoustie every rehearsal and during show 5th Mosaic of Wartime Alyth, Ogilvy Rooms P & K Council Libraries week. So if there is a young 'Howard Keel' out there or at least men under the 5th-12th Photography Project (see page 4) Alyth Arts & Crafts Groups age of 40 who would like to experience an Alyth show then please keep a look 7th Coffee Morning, Airlie Street Hall Alyth Playgroup out for details of when rehearsals start or come along to the AGM, details on the 7th Blairgowrie Walk Alyth Walking Group web site. John White 13th Murder in Alyth, Town Hall Alyth Musical Society 14th Coffee Morning, Airlie Street Hall Alyth PSA (Parent Assoc) 14th Alyth Show South Balloch - - VOICE TEASER - - - 14th Bothy Nicht, Rattray Hall Balmoral Rd, Blairgowrie What is the origin of the name Bardmony? 20th Mid-summer Dance with Steven Carcary Alyth Bowling/Tennis Club Answer to last month’s Teaser – The origin of the name Bamff Road? 21st Coffee Morning, Airlie Street Hall For Jam in the Den 2008 23rd Lunch Club, Airlie Street Hall Alyth Senior Citizens’ Club (a)This route, called by old people “The New Bamff Road.” was made by Sir James Ramsay 27th Hoolie in the Hall, Town Hall For Jam in the Den 2008 of Bamff in view of his marriage with Miss Oliphant, which took place in February, 1828. It 28th Performing at Noon in Alyth Square Alyth & District Pipe Band was new from the Ford of the Steffort (henceforth bridged) to the Tullyfergus Road, and 30th Kirk Shop, Airlie Street Hall Alyth Parish Church improved thereafter. JULY (b)An older “Bamff Road” ran from the same “Cold Corner” passed the mouth of the gravel 1st-5th Kirk Shop, Airlie Street Hall Alyth Parish Church pit, and thence through the fields at a low level below Whiteside, rising to the Whiteside Road northward of where Craigellie now stands. But it had only a short period of useful- 1st Neighbourhood Watch Mtg (see page 9) EPNWA ness, for Panton’s careful map of Whiteside in 1773 has not got this road, nor is it known 4th Race Night, Burnside Inn For Jam in the Den 2008 in Ainslie (1794), and yet it is wholly superseded in the ‘twenties of the next century. 26th Performing at Noon in Alyth Square Alyth & District Pipe Band (c)The oldest Bamff Road is now known as the Whiteside Road, and of old it came round 26th Jam in The Den, Alyth Den Jam in the Den 2008 “the back of the yairds,” and entered the town at the upper corner of the Woolmarket 28th Lunch Club, Airlie Street Hall Alyth Senior Citizens’ Club through the Bamff Wynd. Beyond Whiteside it differed from the present route chiefly at AUGUST the farther end, which in 1773 did not pass the gravel pit but came out on what is now the 18th Blood Donor Session, Town Hall Scotblood highway to Newton, about 100 yards above the “Cold Corner,” to which it looped down 23rd Coffee Morning, Airlie Street Hall SNP sharply. Above the Steffort Brae it was joined by the Burnieshed Road, coming almost 25th Lunch Club, Airlie Street Hall Alyth Senior Citizens’ Club straight from the Brocklie Burn. 30th Coffee Morning, Airlie Street Hall Alyth Mother & Toddlers 30th Performing at Noon in Alyth Square Alyth & District Pipe Band [Extract from Meikle’s ‘Places and Place-Names Round Alyth’ 1925] Community Markets every Strathmore & the Glens Rural Partnership 4th Saturday of the month PO Box 6621, Blairgowrie PH12 8YF The Wellmeadow, Blairgowrie www.strathmoreglens.org or contact Sue Cole on 01828 640763 or [email protected] Anyone interested in taking a stall should contact Sue on 01828 640 763 2 Don’t have access to email?Alyth Library is now offering FREE access Your Letters to the Internet for SURFING the WEB/sending EMAILS. Visit the library for more details... ALYTH AMATEUR FOOTBALL CLUB Name & Address supplied COFFEE MORNING Jewellery Party Fundraiser Dear Voice, OR COFFEE HOUR? This message is for Pat Parnham in reference to the Jenni Milne and Vicky McLean would like to thank A question to all the coffee morning organisers in letter in the last issue of the voice about the dirt bikes everyone who supported their jewellery party at the Airlie Street Hall… is there a competition to finish th on Alyth hill.
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