The Courier & Advertiser (Perth and Perthshire Edition)
THE ARCHIVES
100 years ago
The question of providing improved dressing facilities for bathers at both Broughty Ferry and Barnhill was under the consideration of the sub-committee of the Dundee Baths’ Committee yesterday. Mr Walter McGregor, who is the superintendent, described the present arrangement as “antiquated” and suggested that a solution to the present inadequate arrangements should be to investigate obtaining a hut, which would provide better facilities. He was instructed to obtain a report on the matter.
50 years ago
Sheriff Cox has adjudicated at Dundee in a “weeds” dispute between a Dundee firm of potato merchants and a Glamis farmer. He awarded Mrs Magdalene Kennedy, Nether Airneyfoul, a decree for £178 against James Dryden & Sons, Ltd. The firm was granted £80 in its counter claim. The merchants had rented two fields from Mrs Kennedy to grow potatoes. Mrs Kennedy agreed to do the tractor work necessary, but one field germinated an excessive amount of weeds. The firm had to employ men to hand-hoe the field.
25 years ago
The sky over parts of Fife was lit up by mysterious bright objects around 1am yesterday. The phenomenon was seen by people over a large area and police at Alloa received several phone calls. Largoward man Finlay McGilp was standing at his window when he saw it. He said: “At first I thought it was a flare. It was vivid pale lime green with small starlets trailing behind it. All the fields were lit up by it.” A St Andrews student and his friend also saw the object. The RAF later confirmed the incident was a meteor shower, not a UFO.
One year ago
Council chiefs have had to abandon a road safety scheme aimed at protecting a historic Perth bridge. The 18th Century Tay crossing, known as Smeaton’s Bridge, was partially closed for about two weeks while engineers were to instal a series of bollards. The project was designed to stop vehicles mounting the kerbside, amid concern about the stability of the footway. Perth and Kinross Council said the job was called off after they found the depths of the pavement were “not as drawings of the bridge had led us to believe”.