The old Ice Rink on Dunkeld Road was used as a temporary store for the Royal navy until the RN stores at Almondbank opened, it also was used to display a German bomber. I am taking a guess here that this may have been the famous “Humbie Heinkel” which was […]
There are a number of half-truths and myths about how the city of Perth fared during the Luftwaffe’s bombing campaign against the British Isles. A common account claims that Perth was bombed but once and the fragments of that bomb are to be found in Perth Museum & Art Gallery. […]
On Friday 5 September 1919, for two days, a year after the Great War ended, Perth’s North Inch hosted an Air Carnival event with two Avro 504K biplanes. The Perth Burgh Town Provost Charles Scott C.B.E., Baillie Macfarlane, Convener of the Inches Committee, and the Earl of Kinnoull were the […]
