Winter Snow Road Trip Drive To Visit Blairgowrie Perthshire Scotland

Tour Scotland Winter snow travel video of a sunny but very cold, road trip drive, with Scottish music, on the the A923 road on visit to Blairgowrie, Perthshire. Locals refer to the town as " Blair ". Blairgowrie was made a barony in favour of George Drummond of Blair in 1634 by a royal charter of King Charles I, and became a free burgh in 1809. The town expanded hugely in the 19th century thanks to the employment provided by the many textile mills which were built along the River Ericht, all now closed. By 1870 there were 12 mills along the river employing nearly 2,000 men and women and the population had increased from 400 in the 1700s to 4,000. In 1724 the military road from Coupar Angus to Fort George which passes through the town on the line of the A923 and A93 was completed. The A923 road was built, or at least rebuilt by Major Caulfeild in the 1760s as part of the military road network. It was a southern extension of the recently built route north from Blairgowrie to Fort George via Braemar and Blairgowrie, now followed mostly by the A93 and A939. The A984 from Coupar to Dunkeld was built at about the same time, and it seems that both routes followed pre existing roads and paths for the most part, but brought them up to military road standards. The Twin cities of Blairgowrie are; Pleasanton, California, United States and Cowansville, Quebec, Canada. Alexander Dron Stewart was born in Blairgowrie on 22 June 1883, the son of William Stewart. He studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh graduating with an MB ChB in 1906. He was commissioned into the Indian Army on 1 September 1906. In the First World War he served as a surgeon in Gallipoli, Salonika and Mesopotamia. He was mentioned in dispatches and promoted to Major in March 1918. In 1916 he married Isobel Marguerite Mann. After the war he did further training in public health in Edinburgh. He left India permanently in 1935 and settled in Edinburgh. From 1935 to 1948 he was Superintendent of the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary on Lauriston Place. In 1936 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were Anderson Gray McKendrick, William Glen Liston, Sir David Wilkie, and William Frederick Harvey. He died in Edinburgh on 16 August 1969. During the coronavirus pandemic I have been a volunteer driver. All photographs are copyright of Sandy Stevenson, Tour Scotland, and may not be used without permission.

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