Scottish Veterans Garden Settlement, Callander
Callander, Stirling Road, Esher Crescent, Scottish Veterans Garden Settlement
Veterans Settlement (20th Century)
Site Name Callander, Stirling Road, Esher Crescent, Scottish Veterans Garden Settlement
Classification Veterans Settlement (20th Century)
Alternative Name(s) 1-12 Esher Crescent
Canmore ID 135311
Site Number NN60NW 100
NGR NN 63794 07447
NGR Description and NN 63835 07421
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
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VETERANS' COTTAGES AT CALLANDER.
VISCOUNTESS ESHER LAYS MEMORIAL STONE.
The memorial stone of the second block of six cottages being erected at Callander by the Scottish Veterans Garden City Association for soldiers and sailors belonging to Perthshire who were permanently disabled in the great war was laid on Saturday afternoon.
Amongst those present at the ceremony were Viscount and Viscountess Esher. The Roman Camp. Callander; the Earl of Moray, Doune Lodge: Sir Richard Mackie, Leith, representing the Central Executive of the Scottish Garden Association; and Sir William Rowan Thomson. The disabled men who occupy the first instalment of cottages were also on the platform.
Viscountess Esher laid the memorial stone, which bears the following inscription:— "Memorial stone laid by Eleanor, Viscountess Esher. R.R.C., Lady of Justice of th« Order of Jerusalem, 6th August, 1921." A handsome miniature mallet and trowel was presented to Viscountess Esher by Sir Richard Mackie. who afterwards delivered an address appropriate to the occasion, and following this the company inspected the occupied cottages.
Dundee Courier - Monday 08 August 1921
Image © D.C.Thomson & Co. Ltd. Image created courtesy of THE BRITISH LIBRARY BOARD.
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FOR DISABLED MEN
SCOTTISH VETERANS* GARDEN SETTLEMENTS.
The annual report issued by the Scottish Veterans’ Garden City Association states that during the past year a number of settlements have been completed and occupied. A beginning has also been made at East Calder with the last of the 17 settlements which the Association set out provide, and with this settlement completed in the coming autumn, tho Association will have provided for the use of disabled Scotsmen cottage homes at Longniddry, Leith, Glasgow, Greenock, Dundee. Aberdeen. Montrose. Perth, Pitlochry, Callander. Falkirk, Bathgate, Peebles, St. Boswells, Hawick, Moffat, and East Caldcr. All the Houses are built in the most approved style, with front and back garden plots, and in a great many cases ground also been provided for market gardening and poultrv farming. Although the Association has been most fortunate in the financial support received, a considerable sum is still required to enable it to free each settlement of capital debt, and addition it is desired to have a sum available for any extraordinary exponditure in the way of repairs, and so relieve the occupants of the necessity of providing such payment.
Edinburgh Evening News - Tuesday 19 February 1924
Image © Johnston Press plc. Image created courtesy of THE BRITISH LIBRARY BOARD.
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Scottish Veterans Garden Settlement, Callander
Callander, Stirling Road, Esher Crescent, Scottish Veterans Garden Settlement
Veterans Settlement (20th Century)
Site Name Callander, Stirling Road, Esher Crescent, Scottish Veterans Garden Settlement
Classification Veterans Settlement (20th Century)
Alternative Name(s) 1-12 Esher Crescent
Canmore ID 135311
Site Number NN60NW 100
NGR NN 63794 07447
NGR Description and NN 63835 07421
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink canmore.org.uk/site/135311
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VETERANS' COTTAGES AT CALLANDER.
VISCOUNTESS ESHER LAYS MEMORIAL STONE.
The memorial stone of the second block of six cottages being erected at Callander by the Scottish Veterans Garden City Association for soldiers and sailors belonging to Perthshire who were permanently disabled in the great war was laid on Saturday afternoon.
Amongst those present at the ceremony were Viscount and Viscountess Esher. The Roman Camp. Callander; the Earl of Moray, Doune Lodge: Sir Richard Mackie, Leith, representing the Central Executive of the Scottish Garden Association; and Sir William Rowan Thomson. The disabled men who occupy the first instalment of cottages were also on the platform.
Viscountess Esher laid the memorial stone, which bears the following inscription:— "Memorial stone laid by Eleanor, Viscountess Esher. R.R.C., Lady of Justice of th« Order of Jerusalem, 6th August, 1921." A handsome miniature mallet and trowel was presented to Viscountess Esher by Sir Richard Mackie. who afterwards delivered an address appropriate to the occasion, and following this the company inspected the occupied cottages.
Dundee Courier - Monday 08 August 1921
Image © D.C.Thomson & Co. Ltd. Image created courtesy of THE BRITISH LIBRARY BOARD.
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FOR DISABLED MEN
SCOTTISH VETERANS* GARDEN SETTLEMENTS.
The annual report issued by the Scottish Veterans’ Garden City Association states that during the past year a number of settlements have been completed and occupied. A beginning has also been made at East Calder with the last of the 17 settlements which the Association set out provide, and with this settlement completed in the coming autumn, tho Association will have provided for the use of disabled Scotsmen cottage homes at Longniddry, Leith, Glasgow, Greenock, Dundee. Aberdeen. Montrose. Perth, Pitlochry, Callander. Falkirk, Bathgate, Peebles, St. Boswells, Hawick, Moffat, and East Caldcr. All the Houses are built in the most approved style, with front and back garden plots, and in a great many cases ground also been provided for market gardening and poultrv farming. Although the Association has been most fortunate in the financial support received, a considerable sum is still required to enable it to free each settlement of capital debt, and addition it is desired to have a sum available for any extraordinary exponditure in the way of repairs, and so relieve the occupants of the necessity of providing such payment.
Edinburgh Evening News - Tuesday 19 February 1924
Image © Johnston Press plc. Image created courtesy of THE BRITISH LIBRARY BOARD.
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