Archive news
Find out about newly catalogued collections, new accessions, projects and more....
Newly catalogued collections
Fully arranged, listed and newly available is the small collection, MS285 Tulloch Angling Club records which contain information about the club and the competitions they took part in between 1889-1956.
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 Auchterarder 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 Meikleour' which charts 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
New accessions at the Archive
We regularly receive deposits and gifts of archives throughout the year. Some deposits are accruals to our existing collections, while others are new collections or items which relate closely to our existing holdings and help illuminate aspects of life in the region.
Recent accessions and accruals include
- Kettins school and parochial boards records, 1852-1930 which contain school board minutes, letter book and register of mortages and Kettins parochial board minutes
- Carter & Wilson, Consulting Engineers, 1918-1957, records relating to some of their projects plus WW1 miscellanea. Projects include Merryhill Quarry, 1918-1942; Trades Maiden Hospital air raid shelter, 1935-1939; Finavon Estate , c1947; Loch Ordy, 1925; Grampian electricity supply scheme 1929; Cardrona House water supply; Westbarns, Fordel, Faskally, Bodega, Parkhill; Turner, Guthrie, Bandeath
- Councillors' records of service, 1919-1988 which includes dates of election, deaths and resignations with some personal and professional details, for councillors of pre-P&KC local authorities
- Pubs in Perth, c1990s are photographs that were taken for an exhibition
- Snapshot Auchterarder, 2004-2007 comprise hard copy and digital images of Auchterarder's main and side streets as well as ariel shots and sections of merged photographs showing the High Street, which were all used for the Awards for All Lottery funded project
- Samuel Black Watson, 1913-1918 are letters written by Black during his time in the Arm,y and when he was on sick leave
Projects
Source Lists
The Friends are involved in projects aimed at making the Archive's collections more accessible. To this end, several of the Friends volunteers are creating Source Lists. These are databases that list material from different collections into one theme or subject, helping users to quickly find the kind of material they need.
The databases are searchable and can be consulted in the Archive search room. They include:
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Perth Burgh Burial Registers, 1794-1855
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Sources on Women
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Migration
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World War I
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World War II
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Maritime: shipping, trade and the River Tay
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Perthshire Militia, 1750-1868 NEW
You can also search online the Perth Burgh Burial Registers, 1794-1855 and Sources on Women databases
Publications
The Friends have helped to fund a new publication, Facts and Fancies, by Moira Cherrie, about the Auchterarder Weaver Boy, Tom Stewart, available from 18 April
