Old Photograph Royal George Hotel Perth Scotland

Old photograph of the Royal George Hotel by the River Tay in Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. In the 18th century a new bridge was built across the river near the North Inch and to serve it a major new road was cut through this section of the city. Many old buildings were torn down to accommodate it, and new ones erected in their place. The George Inn, as it was known then, was one of them. Across the road once stood a castle, and after its destruction by flood in 1209, a Dominican friary of the Blackfriars was built in its place. It was there that Queen Victoria’s ancestors stayed when they visited Perth, and where the notorious murder of King James I took place.



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