Tour Scotland Video Christmas Lights Walk High Street Perth Perthshire

Tour Scotland travel video of Winter walk below the Christmas Lights along the High Street on ancestry visit to the city centre of Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. Perth was granted Royal Burgh status in 1210, allowing guilds to be established. Leather crafts, metalwork, pottery and cloth making all became significant trades. By the late 17th Century, the textile industry had become dominant. In the 19th Century, linen, cotton and flax were all spun, woven, bleached and dyed in the town. The layout of the original burgh was centred on the riverside and Watergate. The early town was probably organised along a north-south axis between the castle and St John’s Kirk. Perth remained compact until the industrial revolution brought rapid growth in the 18th and 19th Centuries. By this period the main axis of the town had shifted, now running east to west, with development running along High Street and South Street.

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