Margaret’s next topic is The Muirton
Local history enthusiast Margaret Laing will be launching her latest book, The Muirton, this Saturday, December 3, in Mitchell’s Newsagents on the High Street in Blairgowrie.
Margaret has written several local history books, including Close Up on Coupar Angus, The Cistercian Abbey of Coupar Angus, a social History of Blairgowrie and Peep Through the Beech Hedge and Find Meikleour.
Her latest publication captures a bit of the history of The Muirton and the area around it.
The Muirton, as it was known locally, was at one time a very ancient, little weaving village of thatched cottages of which nothing now remains.
It would have been all but forgotten had it not been for a group of artists and photographers who around the closing years of the nineteenth century discovered the Muirton and its picturesque cottages and residents and photographed and painted them.
Several of the artists who painted The Muirton were friends of Ewan Geddes, a local artist and one of the Blairgowrie Boys , and copies of some of his, and their, paintings, along with the history of the artists, are in the book.
The book has been laid out by Ian Norrie and will be available for sale from Mitchell’s Newsagents in Blairgowrie.
The book launch takes place in the shop on Saturday morning between 10.30am and noon. All welcome.