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.

 

 

 

General Robert Douglas - Soldier

Robert Douglas (17 March 1611, Standingstone, Haddingtonshire, Scotland - 28 May 1662, Stockholm, Sweden), Count of Skenninge, Friherre of Skalby, was a Scottish-born Field Marshal (1657-1662) in the Swedish army, and a commander in later stages of Thirty Years' War. His father, Patrick Douglas, was the second son of William Douglas of Whittinghame. Douglas received the Nunnery at Zeven a few miles from Buxtehude as a reward for his Swedish services.