Folklore and Legends – Breadalbane Heritage Society

Final winter season talk on Friday

15 Apr 2024ianbhs

The final talk of our 2023-24 winter season takes place this Friday, 19th April at 7.30pm in the Assembly Hall at the Breadalbane Community Campus, Aberfeldy. Donald Riddell will be presenting an illustrated talk on “The Mysteries, Folklore, and History of Glen Lyon”.

Our 2024-25 winter season of talks will start on Friday, 20th September 2024 with a talk on the restoration work being carried out at Taymouth Castle near Kenmore. Other topics throughout the season will include talks on Wade’s Road (from Crieff to Dalnacardoch), 19th century Ardtrasgairt Social History, and Cluny Gardens.

October Talk

15 Oct 2023ianbhs

The next BHS Winter Talk takes place at 7.30pm in the Assembly Hall at the Breadalbane Community Campus on Friday 20th October, when Donald Riddell will be talking about “The Mysteries, Folklore and History of Glen Lyon”.

Looking forward to seeing many of you at the meeting on Friday, 20th October, for what should be a very interesting talk.

Quiz Night: Report and Video

9 Feb 202117 Mar 2021ianbhs

On Friday, January 15th, we continued our winter season of online Zoom presentations with a very enjoyable quiz on the Breadalbane area compiled by four of our members; Lesley Whitwood, Fran Gillespie, Neil Hooper and Andy Walker. This was well attended and although this was a non-competitive (without any prizes), fun and educational evening, the kudos of achieving the top mark, somewhere in the 50 to 60 band out of a possible 70, went to Bill Hoare.

The quiz topics in six rounds ranged from natural history, through folklore and archaeology, to general history of the Breadalbane area. If you fancy trying to test your own knowledge of this area, then you can watch the video by clicking on the ‘play’ icon (white triangle at bottom left) on the image below. The answers and scoring points relevant to each question in each round are given at the end of each round.