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Ploughing Teams, Drummondhall
Peacock Cottage, Gellyburn
Station Road
Murthly Falls: Paul McLennan
Murthly Crossroads
Birnam Hill: P McLennan
Lingering Autumn: Millais
Roman Bridge

Murthly History Group

Blog: Thornie Tales

This is a personal blog loosely associated with Murthly History Group. It takes its title from Thornie Muir, where the Gellyburn has its source. Some of the material being developed for a full history of Murthly will be tried out/aired here. Please feel free to comment and make useful suggestions. The views of the author are his own, not those of Murthly History Group.

Where Parishes Butt

Added by Thornie at 10:32 on 05 February 2025

Murthly estate stretches across three parishes – Auchtergaven, Kinclaven and, mostly, Little Dunkeld. T...

Working Man's Diary

Added by Thornie at 11:56 on 02 August 2024

Over the centuries, the folk of this parish (well, ordinary people everywhere) have come across as gingerbrea...

Gauls of Murthly

Added by Thornie at 10:42 on 19 June 2024

On the road out to the old A9 from Byres of Murthly, just past the sawmill on the right, there used to be a sm...

I Told You

Added by Thornie on 19 June 2024

I was looking at a feature article, “The Edge of Empire”, in the Courier, More explicitly, at the ...

And Then There Were None

Added by Thornie on 22 June 2022

Perhaps I should have paid them more attention. They were, after all, the most exotic of Murthly’s resi...

Murthly 1 and the Albatros

Added on 26 September 2021

On 24th July 1918, Lieut. Carl Frederick Falkenberg, flying Murthly No.1, an SE 5a fighter recently acquired b...
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