Obituaries for Shops
The BANK OF SCOTLAND, Blairgowrie (on the 2026 Closure List): A Branch That Knew Your Name, Your Balance and Your Business
Survived by an app, a helpline and a cash machine with strong feelings.
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Obituaries for Shops
The AUCHTERARDER HIGH STREET BUTCHER (Departed September 2026): Remembered for Its Sausages, Its Pies and Its Patient Explanations of Haggis
Town adjusting to a High Street where nobody asks 'and what else?' in that particular tone.
Obituaries for Shops
FRAMES, Victoria Street, Perth (1979–2026): Gallery and Framer, Whose Staff Have Found Happy New Homes
An obituary with a happy ending, which this column is unsure how to format.
Obituaries for Shops
PROUDFOOT, South Street, Perth (c.1975–2026): A Shop That Smelled Comfortingly of Leather and Good Decisions
Purveyor of handbags, gloves and sensible boots; survived by a vennel, a car park and a lot of footfall that went elsewhere.
Tourism
Enchanted Forest Brings Parking Restrictions to Pitlochry; Locals Say Finding a Space Is ‘the Real Magic’
Light show is beautiful, 'but not as beautiful as an empty bay outside the chemist'.
Tourism
Abandoned Loch Tay Township Could Become Youth Activity Centre After Two Centuries of Nobody Doing Anything There
Historic site 'excited but nervous' about teenagers with kayaks.
Tourism
Falls of Bruar Named Among Scotland’s Best Autumn Walks; Man Who’s Walked It Since 1981 Says ‘Aye, It’s Fine’
VisitScotland's top-six list sends visitors to Perthshire's waterfalls, and past the shop, inevitably.
Tourism
Pitlochry Named a ‘Charming Victorian Town’; Residents Ask Whether They Should Start Wearing Bonnets
Town considers 'full Victorian immersion' including gas lamps and complaining about the railway.
Culture
New Musical CEILIDH Ends Pitlochry Run; Audiences Still Trying to Stop Doing the Gay Gordons
Spontaneous Strip the Willow outbreaks reported 'in the Co-op, at bus stops and once on a slip road'.
Opinion
Physicists Say the Universe May Be ‘Stuck in Place’. I Could Have Told Them That From Broxden
A commuter on the cosmic implications of the Glasgow Road exit.