Perth: Street by Street is an architectural, archaeological, geographical, historical, and visual journey around the city of Perth’s c.630 streets, avenues, closes, roads, and vennels. Drawing on a range of disciplines, Perth: Street by Street will appeal both to those readers interested in the history and life of Perth, and to anyone who has lived, worked, or spent time in Scotland’s Fair City. For the people of Perth and those who hail from St John’s Town, the book will be particularly poignant. Within its pages, readers may find their own homes, place of birth, workplaces, schools, favourite shops, and the public architecture and civic backdrop which form a part of their everyday existence. The book is available online from Amazon and other internet retailers, and from the following bookshops: Waterstones (Perth), WHSmith (Perth), Sweet Words (Dunkeld), as well as from Gloagburn Farm Shop by Tibbermore.
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Eve Graham - singer - born Evelyn May Beatson, 19 April 1943, of Auchterarder and Kinross initially made her name as a band singer both in Scotland and England.
In 1969 she joined The New Seekers and was lead singer on the majority of their early hits including the world wide Number One hit - "I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing". Later fellow band member Lyn Paul would share lead vocal duties.
In 1974 she left the group to move into solo cabaret work, but rejoined in 1976 and sang lead on their hit "I Wanna Go Back".
In 1978 she left once more, and again performed as a solo singer, as well as marrying another ex-New Seeker Danny Finn on 1 June 1979.
They toured as a duo for many years. Eve Graham retired in 2000 after a last charity performance, and originally said that she could not envision being tempted out of retirement.
But in 2005 former New Seekers record producer David Mackay did it, and produced a new album with her - The Mountains Welcome Me Home. It was released as a CD and DVD, and contains Scottish traditional and new recordings of old New Seekers songs.
Eve Graham lived for a while in Craigie Road, Perth and her parents ran the sub post-office at Craigie Cross; Eve Graham worked in the post-office as a youngster. She attended Perth Academy.
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