Posted in Architecture at 20:30 on 27 December 2020
Station buildings on Platform 2. Trains to north:-

The station buildings on the east side (Platform 1) house a very good charity second hand bookshop.
Tracks looking south from Platform 1:-

For more views of the station see here.
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Posted in War Graves at 12:00 on 31 December 2018
I must have passed this church building, of the Scottish Episcopal Church, twenty or so times at least. It wasn’t till October 2017 I noticed the Commonwealth War Graves sign on the gate.
Its grounds are lovely with a burn running through them.

It contained one war grave quite near the entrance and close to the burn. Bombardier J Ward, Royal Garrison Artillery, 7/1/1915, aged 35:-

Here’s a video of the church and its grounds:-
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Posted in Trips, War Memorials at 12:00 on 1 November 2015
This is in the form of a Celtic Cross and stands in a small gardened area just off the main street.

Reverse view looking on to Main Street:-

The Names on the Memorial include a staff nurse, only given as Staff Nurse Macbeth:-

A new addition to the small memorial garden, to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Great War, is a pair of memorial benches of which I photographed one. Both benches have inlays of soldiers, barbed wire and stylised poppies.

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Posted in Art Deco, Trips at 11:00 on 31 October 2015
The River Tummel is dammed where it passes Pitlochry in the county of Perth and Kinross and the site houses a hydro-electric power station. The dam created the man-made reservoir Loch Faskally and the buildings are in the deco style.
Pitlochry Dam as seen from access road from the town centre:-

Loch Faskally from Pitlochry Dam (looking north-west):-

River Tummel (looking south-east from Pitlochry Dam.) Pitlochry Festival Theatre visible to the right:-

Cartouche and window of building at Pitlochry Dam:-

There is a fish ladder up the west side of the dam to allow salmon access up to their spawning grounds. When I was last there you could see the fish directly (if one was in the particular step with the window.) Now it seems to be a closed-circuit TV system. The photo below is of the upper platfrom: the fish ladder is to the right here:-

Pitlochry Dam buildings from east side. Part of the fish ladder to the right:-

Pitlochry Dam Generator Building from south:-

Pitlochry Dam + Generator Building:-

Pitlochry Dam Building from South:-

Pitlochry Dam window and cartouche from west side of the river bank:-

This Pitlochry shop has an Art Deco roof-line; good “stepping”:-

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