Old Photograph Tourists Playing Croquet Fishers Hotel Pitlochry Perthshire Scotland

Old photograph of tourists playing Croquet by the gardens of Fishers Hotel in Pitlochry, Perthshire, Scotland. A largely Victorian town, whose success as a tourist resort was due to Queen Victoria visiting the area in 1842, and the arrival of the railway in 1863. It remains a popular tourist resort today and is particularly known as a centre for hillwalking, surrounded by mountains such as Ben Vrackie and Schiehallion. The earliest known reference to croquet in Scotland is the booklet The Game of Croquet, its Laws and Regulations which was published in the mid 1860s for the proprietor of Eglinton Castle, the Earl of Eglinton.



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