Editing Perth, Scotland (section)

==Culture==
[[File:Perth Museum and Art Gallery.JPG|thumb|[[Perth Museum and Art Gallery]]]]
[[File:Perth City Hall - view from W.jpg|thumb|[[Perth City Hall]]]]
[[Perth Museum and Art Gallery]], at the eastern end of George Street, is recognised as one of the oldest provincial museums in Scotland.<ref name="Perth City Centre appraisal" /> Another museum, known as the Fergusson Gallery, has, since 1992, been located in the Category A listed former [[Perth Water Works]] building on [[Tay Street]]. This contains the major collection of the works of the artist [[John Duncan Fergusson]].<ref name="Perth City Centre appraisal" />

[[Perth Theatre]] opened in 1900.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.arthurlloyd.co.uk/PerthTheatres.htm |title=Theatres in Perth, Scotland |website=www.arthurlloyd.co.uk |access-date=13 November 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171108035350/http://www.arthurlloyd.co.uk/PerthTheatres.htm |archive-date=8 November 2017 |url-status=live}}</ref>
It underwent a £10&nbsp;million redevelopment to house new studio space, a youth theatre, construction workshop and a series of front of house performance areas and new main entrance from [[Mill Street (Perth, Scotland)|Mill Street]] in addition to the main focus of the conservation and restoration of the historic Victorian auditorium.<ref name="charcoalblue">{{cite web |url=http://www.charcoalblue.com/projects/being-designed/perth-theatre.html |title=Perth Theatre |publisher=charcoalblue |access-date=7 March 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110708135047/http://www.charcoalblue.com/projects/being-designed/perth-theatre.html |archive-date=8 July 2011 |df=dmy-all}}</ref>
Perth Concert Hall, which opened in 2005, was built on the site of the former Horsecross Market.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.scottish-places.info/features/featurefirst11006.html |title=Perth Concert Hall |publisher=Gazetteer for Scotland |access-date=15 April 2021 |archive-date=15 April 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210415221008/https://www.scottish-places.info/features/featurefirst11006.html |url-status=live }}</ref>

[[Perth City Hall]] has been used as a venue for several high-profile concerts over the years, including [[Morrissey]],<ref>{{cite web |last1=Buchan |first1=Jamie |title=Wanted: Memories of Perth City Hall for new people's history project |url=https://www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/news/local/perth-kinross/899809/wanted-memories-of-perth-city-hall-for-new-peoples-history-project/ |website=The Courier |date=27 May 2019 |access-date=3 June 2021 |archive-date=3 June 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210603174004/https://www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/news/local/perth-kinross/899809/wanted-memories-of-perth-city-hall-for-new-peoples-history-project/ |url-status=live }}</ref> as well as [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative Party]] conferences.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/104082 |title=Speech to Scottish Conservative Party Conference &#124; Margaret Thatcher Foundation |publisher=Margaretthatcher.org |access-date=2 October 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131005011135/http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/104082 |archive-date=5 October 2013 |url-status=live}}</ref> The hall is currently being converted into a new heritage and arts attraction.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.pkc.gov.uk/article/14876/Perth-City-Hall |title=Perth City Hall |publisher=Perth and Kinross Council |access-date=16 April 2020 |archive-date=15 April 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210415220607/https://www.pkc.gov.uk/article/14876/Perth-City-Hall |url-status=live }}</ref>

The [[New wave music|new-wave]] band [[Fiction Factory]] formed in Perth, and had some success with their hit "[[(Feels Like) Heaven]]" in 1984. The song, which reached number six in the charts, was their biggest hit.

The Perth Festival of the Arts is an annual collection of art, theatre, opera and classical music events in the city. The annual event lasts for a couple of weeks and is usually held in May. In recent years, the festival has broadened its appeal by adding comedy, rock and popular music acts to the bill. Perth also has a number of twin cities around the world. These are: [[Aschaffenburg]] in Germany, [[Bydgoszcz]] in Poland, [[Haikou]], Hainan in China, [[Perth]] in Australia, [[Perth, Ontario|Perth]] in Canada, [[Pskov]] in Russia and [[Cognac, France|Cognac]] in France.<ref name="Archant twinning">{{cite web |url=http://www.completefrance.com/language-culture/twin-towns |title=British towns twinned with French towns |access-date=11 July 2013 |work=Archant Community Media Ltd |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130705094933/http://www.completefrance.com/language-culture/twin-towns |archive-date=5 July 2013 |url-status=live}}</ref>

Perth has hosted the [[Royal National Mòd|National Mòd]] in 1896, 1900, 1924, 1929, 1947, 1954, 1963, 1980 and 2004.<ref name=SMO>[http://www.smo.uhi.ac.uk/gaidhlig/mod/ List of Mod's places] {{Webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130115062253/http://www.smo.uhi.ac.uk/gaidhlig/mod/ |date=15 January 2013 }} for each year on [[Sabhal Mòr Ostaig]] website</ref>

===Landmarks and tourism===
{{further|List of listed buildings in Perth, Scotland}}
[[File:Fair Maid's House, Perth.jpg|thumb|[[Fair Maid's House]]]]The Category A listed [[St John's Kirk]], on St John's Place, is architecturally and historically one of the most significant buildings in Perth.<ref name="Graham-Campbell pp38–39">Graham-Campbell (1994), pp. 38–39.</ref> The settlement of the original church dates back to the mid-12th century.<ref name="Walker and Ritchie p122">Walker and Ritchie ''Fife, Perthshire and Angus'' p. 122.</ref> During the middle of the 12th century, the church was allowed to fall into disrepair, when most of the revenues were used by David I to fund [[Dunfermline Abbey]].<ref name="Graham-Campbell pp38–39" /> The majority of the present church was constructed between 1440 and 1500.<ref name="Graham-Campbell pp38–39" /> Though much altered, its tower and lead-clad spire continue to dominate the Perth skyline. The Church has lost its medieval south porch and [[sacristy]], and the north [[transept]] was shortened during the course of the 19th century during street-widening. A rare treasure, a unique survival in Scotland, is a 15th-century brass candelabrum or chandelier, imported from the [[Low Countries]]. The survival of this object is all the more remarkable as it includes a statuette of the [[Virgin Mary]]. It is thought to have been hung in the Skinner's aisle.<ref>''Angels Nobles & Unicorns'' (Edinburgh: NMS, 1982), p. 116.</ref> An inventory of 1544 lists another hanging brass chandelier as an ornament of the altar of Our Lady.<ref>''HMC 5th Report: Burgh of Perth'' (London, 1876), p. 655.</ref>

Another Category A listed building is the former [[King James VI Hospital]], built in 1750 on the site of the former [[Perth Charterhouse]], which was burned in 1559 during the Reformation.<ref>Cowan & Easson, ''Medieval Religious Houses'', p. 87; Watt & Shead, ''Heads of Religious Houses'', p. 176.</ref>

The spire of Category B listed<ref name="St Paul's Church listing">{{Historic Environment Scotland |num=LB39315 |desc=South Methven Street, High Street and St Paul's Square, St Paul's Church |cat=B |fewer-links=yes |access-date=9 May 2020}}</ref> St Paul's Church, which was completed in 1807 is a major focus point around St Paul's Square at the junction of Old High Street and North Methven Street. The development of the church led to an expansion of the city to the west.<ref name="Perth City Centre appraisal" /> Pullar House on Mill Street was once used by [[J. Pullar and Sons]] dyeworks, the largest industry in Perth at one time, and has since been converted into office use for Perth and Kinross Council in 2000.<ref name="Perth City Centre appraisal" />

The Category B listed [[Fair Maid's House]], in North Port, is the oldest surviving secular building in Perth.<ref name="Fothergill, Hendry and Hartley19">Fothergill, Hendry and Hartley, ''Walks Around Historic Perth'', p.19.</ref><ref name="Fair Maid's House restoration">{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/tayside_and_central/8413686.stm |title=Revamp for Perth's oldest house |work=BBC News |access-date=15 January 2010 |date=18 September 2011 |archive-date=21 February 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220221140949/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/tayside_and_central/8413686.stm |url-status=live }}</ref> Built on the foundations of previous buildings, parts of the structure date back from 1475.<ref name="Fothergill, Hendry and Hartley19" /> The building was used as the home of Catherine Glover in the novel ''[[The Fair Maid of Perth]]'', which was written by [[Sir Walter Scott]] in 1828.<ref name="Perth City Centre appraisal" />
[[File:Robert_Burns_Lounge.jpg|thumb|Robert Burns Lounge]]
Another bard, [[Robert Burns]], is memorialised with a small statue in a niche above the Robert Burns Lounge Bar, at 5 County Place.<ref name=official11>''Official Guide to Perth and Its Neighbourhood by the Tramway Car Routes'' – Perth Town Council (1907), p. 11</ref><ref>[https://www.google.com/maps/@56.3953299,-3.4348846,3a,75y,44.23h,94.05t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sEPK5vQ7Sw-qMtqwSf1uMyA!2e0!7i16384!8i8192 5 County Place] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211202174351/https://www.google.com/maps/@56.3953299,-3.4348846,3a,75y,44.23h,94.05t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sEPK5vQ7Sw-qMtqwSf1uMyA!2e0!7i16384!8i8192 |date=2 December 2021 }} – [[Google Street View]], April 2021</ref> It is the work of a local sculptor William Anderson, the son of noted painter [[David Anderson (artist)|David Anderson]], who was active in the mid-19th century. The statue was installed in 1854 on what was then the sculptor's house. It was later moved to North Methven Street until 1886, then to the 1 Albert Place home of photographer John Henderson, but was returned after Anderson's death.<ref>[https://artuk.org/discover/stories/six-scottish-robert-burns-statues "Six Scottish Robert Burns statues"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211202174401/https://artuk.org/discover/stories/six-scottish-robert-burns-statues |date=2 December 2021 }} – [[Art UK]], 22 January 2020</ref>

The nearby City Mills, built to serve [[Perth Lade]] from the River Almond, was once the site of industry until the early 19th century. Only the Upper and [[Lower City Mills]] survive to this day.<ref name="Perth City Centre appraisal" /> The Category A listed Lower City Mills, which date from 1805,<ref name="Lower Mills listing">{{Historic Environment Scotland|num=LB39578|desc=West Mill Street, Lower City Mills, Tourist Information Centre|cat=A|fewer-links=yes|access-date=9 May 2020}}</ref> were used for barley and oatmeal, while the Category A listed Upper Mills, of 1792,<ref name="Upper Mills listing">{{Historic Environment Scotland|num=LB39577|desc=West Mill Street, Ramada Perth Hotel, (Former Upper City Mills)|cat=A|fewer-links=yes|access-date=9 May 2020}}</ref> consisted of two wheat mills connected to a granary.<ref name="Perth City Centre appraisal" />

===Conservation===
{{main|Perth and Kinross Heritage Trust}}
After Perth reclaimed its city status in 2012, [[Perth and Kinross Heritage Trust]] began the process of conserving the city's historic buildings and structures via the Perth City Heritage Fund (PCHF), which is funded by the [[Scottish Government]].<ref name=pchf>[https://www.pkht.org.uk/pchf/ Perth City Heritage Fund] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211007162735/https://www.pkht.org.uk/pchf/ |date=7 October 2021 }} – Perth and Kinross Heritage Trust</ref> Its aim is to encourage owners of historic buildings within the bounds of Perth Central and Kinnoull Conservation Areas by assisting their repair and renovation work with grants.<ref name=pchf/>

Funds have, thus far, been received in three phases: 2012–2015, 2015–2018, and (the most recent) 2018–2021. Funding for the latter part of 2021 and 2022 is expected.<ref name=pchf/>

Phases 1 and 2 provided just over £1 million of grant assistance for almost fifty projects.<ref name=pchf/>

===Media===
The sole newspaper based in the city is the ''[[Perthshire Advertiser]]'', owned by [[Trinity Mirror]]. The newspaper's offices are based in Watergate, but the newspaper itself is printed in [[Blantyre, South Lanarkshire|Blantyre]].{{cn|date=October 2024}} It outlasted both the ''Perthshire Courier'' (established in 1809) and the ''Perthshire Constitutional and Journal'' (1832).<ref name=leslies191140>{{Cite web |url=https://digital.nls.uk/dcn6/8573/85730416.6.pdf |title=''Leslie's directory for Perth and Kinross'' (1911), p. 40 |access-date=5 January 2022 |archive-date=5 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220105212716/https://digital.nls.uk/dcn6/8573/85730416.6.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref>

Television signals are received from the [[Angus transmitting station|Angus]] TV transmitter<ref>{{cite web |url=https://ukfree.tv/transmitters/tv/Angus |title= Full Freeview on the Angus (Dundee City, Scotland) transmitter |date=1 May 2004 |accessdate =12 October 2023 }}</ref> and the local relay TV transmitter situated south east of the city.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://ukfree.tv/transmitters/tv/Perth |title= Freeview Light on the Perth (Perth and Kinross, Scotland) transmitter |date=1 May 2004 |accessdate =12 October 2023 }}</ref>

One of Britain's most successful radio stations, Hospital Radio Perth, broadcasts to [[Perth Royal Infirmary]] and [[Murray Royal Hospital]]. The [[Hospital Broadcasting Association]] have awarded Hospital Radio Perth the title of "British Station of the Year" in 1996, 1997, 1999 and 2007.<ref name="PRI">{{cite web |url=http://www.nhstayside.scot.nhs.uk/staff/spectra/Spectra30.pdf |title=Perth Royal Infirmary |publisher=NHS Tayside |access-date=24 December 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090430212255/http://www.nhstayside.scot.nhs.uk/staff/spectra/Spectra30.pdf |archive-date=30 April 2009 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="Hospital Radio Perth">{{cite web |url=http://www.hospitalradioperth.org.uk |title=Hospital Radio Perth |publisher=Hospital Radio Perth |access-date=24 December 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090514061258/http://www.hospitalradioperth.org.uk/ |archive-date=14 May 2009 |url-status=usurped}}</ref>

The city is also served by nation-wide stations, [[BBC Radio Scotland]], [[Tay 2|Greatest Hits Radio Tayside and Fife]] and [[Original 106 (Scotland)|Original 106]] (formerly [[Wave FM]]).<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://perthshirechamber.co.uk/directory/category/radio-stations/ |title= Radio Stations – Perthshire Chamber of Commerce|access-date=12 October 2023}}</ref>

===Sport and recreation===
[[File:Dewar's distillery, Perth.jpg|thumb|right|Dewar's Centre, an ice rink, stands on the site formerly occupied by a bonded warehouse for [[John Dewar & Sons|Dewar's]] Scotch whisky, pictured here in 1988, shortly before its demolition]]
[[St Johnstone F.C.|St Johnstone]] is the city's professional [[association football|football]] club. The team play in the [[Scottish Premiership]] at their home ground, [[McDiarmid Park]], in the [[Tulloch, Perth and Kinross|Tulloch]] area of the city. They won the [[Scottish Cup]] for the first time in 2014, after 130 years without a major trophy.<ref name="St Johnstone Football Club">{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/scot_prem/default.stm |title=Clubs in the Scottish Premier League |work=BBC Sport |date=19 January 2011 |access-date=19 January 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090513012621/http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/scot_prem/default.stm |archive-date=13 May 2009 |url-status=live}}</ref> There are also two [[East of Scotland Football League|East of Scotland League]] clubs based in Perth – [[Jeanfield Swifts F.C.|Jeanfield Swifts]] and [[Kinnoull F.C.|Kinnoull]].

The senior [[rugby union|rugby]] team, [[Perthshire RFC]], play their games on the [[North Inch]] in [[Scottish National League Division Three]]. Between 1995 and 1998, professional side [[Caledonia Reds]] played some of their home matches at McDiarmid Park before they merged with [[Glasgow Warriors]].

On the western edge of the North Inch is [[Bell's Sports Centre]]. Prior to the building of the Greenwich Dome, it was the largest domed building in Britain.<ref name=scbp>[https://www.smallcitybigpersonality.co.uk/The-History-of-Bells-Sports-Centre-50-years-in-Perth "The History of Bells Sports Centre"] – Small City, Big Personality</ref>

[[Perth Leisure Pool]], to the west of the railway station on the Glasgow Road, is the city's swimming centre. The modern leisure pool complex was built in the mid-1980s to replace the traditional public swimming baths (established 1887),<ref name="Perth Leisure Pool">{{cite book |last=Smith |first=Gavin & Ruth |title=Perth in Old Photographs |publisher=Sutton Publishing Limited |year=2000 |page=105}}</ref> which used to sit just off the Dunkeld Road.

Adjacent to Perth Leisure Pool is the [[John Dewar & Sons|Dewar's]] Centre, which includes an eight-lane ice rink. It has long been a main centre of [[curling]] in Scotland, and many top teams compete in this arena and many major events are held here each year. Curling is available from September to April annually. There is an indoor [[bowls|bowling]] hall, hosting major competitions. Historically, Perth had a successful [[ice hockey]] team, [[Perth Panthers]], who played at the old ice rink on Dunkeld Road. The rink at Dewars is the wrong shape for ice hockey, so when the team reformed in 2000 for two seasons, they played their home games at [[Dundee Ice Arena]]. The Dewar's distillery that stood on the site until 1988 was one of the country's "big three" blenders. Its location was chosen due to its proximity to the General Railway Station, whose tracks behind the western side of the building.<ref>[https://scotchwhisky.com/magazine/features/9016/perth-the-rise-and-fall-of-a-whisky-city/ "Perth: The Rise and Fall of a Whisky City"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220118154832/https://scotchwhisky.com/magazine/features/9016/perth-the-rise-and-fall-of-a-whisky-city/ |date=18 January 2022 }} – ''Scotch Whisky'' magazine, 20 April 2016</ref> The distillery was one of the city's largest employers.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=Kk5YAAAAYAAJ ''Industry and Employment in Scotland''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220221140948/https://www.google.com/books/edition/Industry_and_Employment_in_Scotland/Kk5YAAAAYAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0 |date=21 February 2022 }}, 1961, p. 62</ref>

In 2024, plans were announced to close Perth Leisure Pool, Bell's Sports Centre and Dewar's Centre and replace them with a single new sports centre. This new facility would not include an ice rink.<ref name="BBCNewsMuirhead">{{cite news |last1=Ogston |first1=Graeme |title=Eve Muirhead's shock as 'home of Scottish curling' faces closure |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-tayside-central-67993088 |access-date=17 January 2024 |work=BBC News |agency=BBC |date=17 January 2024}}</ref>

Perth hosts Scotland's largest volleyball event every May – the Scottish Open Volleyball Tournament. There is a highly competitive indoor competition held inside Bell's Sports Centre alongside both a competitive and fun outdoor event played on the North Inch. Teams competing traditionally camp alongside the outdoor courts with the campsite being administered by local [[cadet]]s. The Scottish Volleyball Association's annual general meeting is also held at the same time as the tournament.

===Parks and gardens===
{{main|North Inch||South Inch}}
[[File:North Inch.jpg|thumb|The [[North Inch]], looking southeast towards the city centre]]

Perth is also home to two main parks, namely the North Inch and South Inch (the word "Inch" being an anglicisation of the Gaelic ''innis'' meaning island or meadow). The Inches were given to the city in 1377 by [[Robert III of Scotland|King Robert III]].

The North Inch is directly north of the city centre, bordered to the south by Charlotte Street and Atholl Street and to the southwest by [[Rose Terrace (Perth, Scotland)|Rose Terrace]], named for [[Thomas Hay Marshall#Personal life|Rose Anderson]], the wife of [[Thomas Hay Marshall]], whose house was on the Atholl Street corner.<ref name=postcard>''Perth: The Postcard Collection'', Jack Gillon (2020) {{isbn|9781398102262}}</ref> A recreational path circumnavigates the entire park.

The River Tay bounds it to the east. A little farther to the north is the Inch's eponymous golf course.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.pkc.gov.uk/northinchgolf/ |title=North Inch golf course – Perth & Kinross Council |publisher=Pkc.gov.uk |date=17 December 2012 |access-date=2 October 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131005000651/http://www.pkc.gov.uk/northinchgolf/ |archive-date=5 October 2013 |df=dmy-all}}</ref>

Situated {{cvt|0.5|mi|m}} south of the North Inch, directly across the city centre, is the South Inch. The Inches are linked by Tay Street, which runs along the western banks of the Tay. The South Inch is bordered to the north by Marshall Place and Kings Place; to the east by Shore Road; to the south by South Inch View and South Inch Terrace; and to the west by the rear of the houses on St Leonards Bank. The Edinburgh Road passes through its eastern third. The South Inch offers various activities, including bowling, an adventure playground, a skate park, and, in the summer, a bouncy castle. The Perth Show takes place annually on the section of the Inch between the Edinburgh Road and Shore Road.

Another park in the city, [[Norie-Miller Walk]], is located across the Tay.

===Gardens===
*[[Branklyn Garden]]
*[[Cherrybank Gardens]] (closed)
*[[Rodney Gardens]]