Tour Scotland Spring travel video of a late afternoon, sunny but cold, road trip drive with Scottish music, to Scone village where I live, through the City Centre of Perth, after visit to Perth Royal Infirmary. Doing voluntary work today returning an elderly Scot from a medical appointment. During the coronavirus pandemic I have been a volunteer driver doing some shopping etc; for elderly Scots. The current Perth Royal Infirmary was built on a site on Glasgow Road between 1912 and 1914. An extension containing operating theatres and kitchens was added between 1934 and 1935. The Accident & Emergency department was added in 1993 and the hospital became a University Teaching Hospital in 2006. Weather warnings were issued for most of Scotland, along with all of Northern Ireland and parts of Wales today including Artic cold temperatures a sprinkling of snow, with even hail and sleet predicted. The medieval village of Scone, which grew up around the monastery and royal residence, was abandoned in the early 19th century when the residents were removed and a new palace was built on the site by the Earl of Mansfield. Hence the modern village of Scone, and the medieval village of Old Scone, can often be distinguished.
Perth has been known as The Fair City since the publication of the story Fair Maid of Perth by Scottish writer Sir Walter Scott in 1828. During the later medieval period the city was also called St John's Toun or Saint Johnstoun by its inhabitants in reference to the main church dedicated to St John the Baptist
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