Victorian Folly Riverside Park Perth Perthshire Scotland

Tour Scotland Spring 4K travel video of a victorian folly in Riverside Park on visit to Perth, Perthshire. In architecture, a folly is a building constructed primarily for decoration, but suggesting through its appearance some other purpose. The folly appears to be a doorway to the inside of building, though the door does not actual open to anywhere. There is often an element of fakery in their construction. The canonical example of this is the sham ruin: a folly which pretends to be the remains of an old building but which was in fact constructed in that state. The Great Famine of Ireland of 1845 to 1849 led to the building of several follies in order to provide relief to the poor without issuing unconditional handouts. However, to hire the needy for work on useful projects would deprive existing workers of their jobs. Thus, construction projects termed " famine follies " came to be built. These included roads in the middle of nowhere, between two seemingly random points, screen and estate walls, piers in the middle of bogs, etc.

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