A brand new rural life exhibition exploring the historical past of a former Perthshire village that disappeared half a century in the past has gone on show
The exhibition, titled ‘A Misplaced Neighborhood: Muirton of Ardblair’, explores a conventional method of rural life that has all however vanished in Scotland and options uncommon photographic prints from 1893.
The as soon as thriving village on the outskirts of Blairgowrie produced flax and linen, in addition to turnips, oats, and potatoes, with residents residing in easy cottages with earth flooring, thatched roofs and no operating water or electrical energy till the Fifties.
By the mid-nineteenth century, it supported a neighborhood of flax spinners and linen weavers residing in about 20 cottages. These cottage industries died out with the rise of water-powered mills.
Had it not been for the artists and photographers drawn to this as soon as picturesque village exterior Blairgowrie, the neighborhood, its tales, and traditions might need been forgotten.
Tradition Perth and Kinross observe: “Fortuitously, this second in time has been preserved and shared with everybody due to funding from the Nationwide Fund for Acquisitions, which enabled us to buy the uncommon photographic prints.”
The exhibition will even characteristic historic objects, actions for households, and work by Ewan Geddes, one of many native artists often known as the Blairgowrie Boys, who ‘discovered artistically all his soul longed for’ within the village.
A Misplaced Neighborhood: Muirton of Ardblair opened on Saturday October 8 and runs till December 23 at Perth Museum and Artwork Gallery. Free entry however donations welcome.