Tour Scotland Video Photograph Murray Royal Hospital Chapel Perth Perthshire

Tour Scotland video of Murray Royal Hospital Chapel on visit to Bridgend, Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. This Scottish hospital was founded by James Murray, a labourer who inherited a fortune in 1809 when his half-brother drowned in a storm which sank the ship carrying him home from India. It was in his own will that James Murray left two thirds of his estate for purpose of establishing an asylum in Perth. He stipulated verbally that the patients from the parishes that he had lived in, namely Perth, Dunbarney and Rhynd would be received at charitable rates, and that his brother John, and his heirs would be, when possible, represented on the management of the Asylum. He died in 1814. The hospital designed by the architect William Burn, born 1789, died 1870, and opened in 1827 as the Murray Royal Lunatic Asylum. The chapel was built in 1901, designed by Physician Superintendent Dr A.R. Urquhart it was partly built by the patients.

Tour Scotland photograph of Murray Royal Hospital Chapel on visit to Bridgend, Perth, Perthshire, Scotland.

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Tour Scotland Video Photographs Scotch Broom Above River Tay Kinnoull Hill Perth Perthshire

Tour Scotland video of Scotch Broom above the River Tay by Kinnoull Hill on visit to Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. The name of the House of Plantagenet, rulers of England in the Middle Ages, was derived from common broom, which was then known as planta genista in Latin. The broomscod, or seed-pod, was the personal emblem of Charles VI of France.

Tour Scotland photograph of Scotch Broom above the River Tay by Kinnoull Hill on visit to Perth, Perthshire, Scotland.

Tour Scotland photograph of Scotch Broom above the River Tay by Kinnoull Hill on visit to Perth, Perthshire, Scotland.

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Tour Scotland Video Photograph Wooden Toadstool Sculpture Walled Garden Murray Royal Hospital Perth Perthshire

Tour Scotland video of a wooden toadstool sculpture in the walled garden at Murray Royal Hospital on visit to Bridgend, Perth, Perthshire, Scotland.

Tour Scotland photograph of a wooden toadstool sculpture in the walled garden at Murray Royal Hospital on visit to Bridgend, Perth, Perthshire, Scotland.

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Tour Scotland Video Photograph Wooden Sculpture Walled Garden Murray Royal Hospital Perth Perthshire

Tour Scotland video of a wooden sculpture in the walled garden at Murray Royal Hospital on visit to Bridgend, Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. Nobody in the garden could remember who this sculpture represents. I think it looks like the comedian Lenny Henry. Any other ideas ?

Tour Scotland photograph of a wooden sculpture in the walled garden at Murray Royal Hospital on visit to Bridgend, Perth, Perthshire, Scotland.

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Tour Scotland Video Photographs Jet Skis River Tay Perth Perthshire

Tour Scotland May video of photographs of Jet Skis on the River Tay on visit to Perth, Perthshire, Scotland.

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