The next BHS meeting takes place next week on Friday 15th March at 7.30pm in the Assembly Hall at the Breadalbane Community Campus, Aberfeldy. Mike Benson will be presenting an illustrated talk on “The Scottish Crannog Centre, Past, Present and Future”.
After 18 months of Covid restrictions with all our 2020-21 winter programme of talks having been presented online by Zoom, we were hopeful that we would be able to present our new season of winter talks commencing in September 2021 ‘in person’ in our regular venue, the Breadalbane Community Campus in Aberfeldy. However, we were informed that public use of the main hall in the Breadalbane Campus complex would only be possible from the beginning of October. Consequently, our first winter talk on the 17th September was presented online using Zoom, but we were able to return to the Breadalbane Campus for our October talk. We are hopeful that the November and March talks will also still be able to take place in the Breadalbane Campus.
Taking into consideration the likelihood of adverse winter weather during the months of January and February making travel difficult and from comments and suggestions from our members that they are unwilling to venture out on cold, wet winter evenings, we have decided for this season to present the January and February talks online by Zoom. As we hold the talks on the third Friday of the winter months, there is not a talk in December as it would come very close to Christmas. Joining details for each Zoom meeting will be provided prior to each talk.
Friday 17th September 2021: Dr. David Summers – ‘The Atlantic Salmon’ (by Zoom)
Friday 15th October 2021: Rob Hands – ‘Battles of the Three Muirs’
Friday 19th November 2021: Dr. Liz Auty – ‘The Attraction of Mountains, Schiehallion, ‘Weighing’ the World and Contour Lines’
Friday 21st January 2022: John Borland – ‘The Early Medieval Sculpture of Highland Perthshire’ (by Zoom)
Friday 18th February 2022: Dr. Nicki Scott: ‘Ancient Magnificence: Arbroath Abbey and beyond’ (by Zoom)
Friday 18th March 2022: Annette Carruthers: ‘James MacLaren and the Arts and Crafts Movement’
In association with the programme of winter talks, we also run a short season of half and full-day excursions from late May to mid-July, ideally to locations referred to in some of the winter talks.
Amongst the locations we are currently considering are:
In addition, we are considering a three or four-day trip to Angus in late-August to visit a number of HES and other sites, some of which will be referred to in John Borland’s January talk and included in Dr. Nicki Scott’s February talk.
These are our preliminary excursion proposals and may be subject to change. Further details will be confirmed early next year.
Refer to the Events page for further information on the forthcoming season of Winter Talks.
Last month, Tommy Pringle, a life-long resident of Aberfeldy, gave an entertaining and informative talk on ‘Aberfeldy Past and Present’, presenting a series of photographs and postcards taken over the last 150 years showing changes to buildings in Aberfeldy starting in Kenmore Street and working eastwards along to the Dewar’s Aberfeldy Distillery.
By coupling archive images with current photographs, Tommy illustrated the range of shops and garages and other buildings that once graced the streets of Aberfeldy and have now been replaced or had a change of use.
His talk was very popular with over 100 requests for joining information, and Tommy’s personal knowledge and stories of the characters, buildings and events brought Aberfeldy to life.
Two versions of the recording of the talk are available to view. The first is approximately one hour long and contains just the talk. The second includes an additional subsequent 30-minute Q&A session providing further supplementary information. Both of these videos can be viewed below:
If you wish to view these videos at a larger size, click on the ‘full screen’ button at the bottom right-hand corner of the images above:
A chance to attend the last Zoom online talk of our 2020-21 winter season with what is proving to be a very popular event with 75 people having already expressed an interest in joining in on Friday evening.
Tommy will be using archive photographs and postcards to illustrate the range of shops and garages and other buildings that once graced the streets of Aberfeldy and have now been replaced or had a change of use.
If you wish to attend, please send Ian Stewart an email at bhsaberfeldy@gmail.com, and he will send you the joining details.
As our replacement for the normal winter season of public meetings held in the Breadalbane Campus in Aberfeldy, we are continuing with our successful foray into presenting a winter season of Zoom meetings and talks in 2021.
In September, Colin Liddell gave a talk on ‘Pitlochry in 3s’; in October, Lesley Whitwood asked the question ‘Where have all the churches gone?’ and last month, Helen Stewart presented a talk on ‘Researching your Family History in Scotland’. These were all well attended with between 45 and 60 people viewing each of these online presentations.
We are continuing this series of Zoom talks with:
These talks are free to attend. To register your interest, or if you have any queries on the above, please send an email to Ian Stewart at bhsaberfeldy@gmail.com. A few days before each meeting, Ian will email you the Zoom joining details.
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