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Perth is the capital city of Western Australia. It is the fourth most populous city in Australia, with a population of over 2.3 million within Greater Perth as of 2023. It is part of the South West Land Division of Western Australia, with most of Perth's metropolitan area on the Swan Coastal Plain between the Indian Ocean and the Darling Scarp. The city has expanded outward from the original British settlements on the Swan River, upon which its central business district and port of Fremantle are situated.
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"In the early 1780s James Wingate, a Stirling business man, commissioned the famous Scottish architect Gideon Gray to build a hotel on the site of The Gibb’s Inn Tavern and Lodgings, located in Quality Street Stirling.
The Gibb’s Inn was according to antiquity, “The principal hotel in Stirling catering for coaches going north to Perth – ‘The Difiance’ 4 horse coach leaving at 8.50am – and south to Glasgow – ‘The Rapide’ leaving for Glasgow at 8.30am, both from the pend behind the Inn.”
The Hotel known as Wingate’s Inn opened to much “fanfare and anticipation” in 1786 to “provide a valuable service to visitors and travellers to and from Stirling alike.”
On the 26th August 1787 Robert Burns then aged 28 and his travelling companion Willie Nicol, who was a Master at Edinburgh High School, Latin scholar and student of literature visited Stirling Castle. They stayed at The Golden Lion and in the evening they were joined for dinner in the Hotel by local businessman Mr. Christopher Bell. At the time the Castle was in a very rundown condition and this inspired him to write the famous “Stirling Lines” and etched the following verse on a pane of glass in his second floor bedroom.
“Here Stuarts once in glory reign’d, And laws for Scotland’s weal ordain’d ; But now unroof ‘d their palace stands, Their sceptre’s sway’d by other hands. The injur’d Stuart line is gone, A race outlandish fills their throne An idiot race, to honour lost : Who know them best despise them most.”
Realising his lament for the deposed Stuart line and shock at the dilapidated state of The Castle had caused offence, Burns returned to the hotel in October of that year and smashed the pane of glass with the butt of his riding crop.
James Macdonald the Hebridean diarist recorded in his journal of the 2nd June 1796 that he had enjoyed dinner with Burns the evening previous in Sanquhar Dumfrieshire where, Burns discussed at length his stay at the Golden Lion Hotel. This was only two months before Burns died at the age of 37.
Macdonald who was a 24 year old licensed Kirk Minister wrote,
“He looks consumptive, but was in excellent spirits, and displayed as much wit and humour in 3 hours time as any man I ever knew. He told me that being once in Stirling when we he was a young lad, heated with drink, he had nigh got himself into a dreadful scrape by writing the (Stirling) lines on the pane of a glass window at the inn.”
These lines were to almost cut short his career as an Excise man before it had even started for he records in a letter that a “great person” had visited him and interrogated him “like a child about my matters, and blamed and schooled for my inscription on a Stirling window.”
In 1820 the name Quality Street was changed to its present name of King Street in honour of King George IV, who ascended to the throne in that year.
In King Street the position of the “New” Port Gate is marked in the road immediately outside the Hotel. The original Port or Burgh Gate played a crucial role in Stirling’s history, because it was here in or around the year 900 that a wolf’s growl alerted guards to the approach of Danish Viking raiders. The raiders were seen off, the town survived, and to this day there’s a wolf on Stirling’s heraldic Coat of Arms.
For nearly two centuries, the Golden Lion Statue has looked down on the “New” Port Gate and King Street, acting as a symbol of protection, strength and confidence. It has presided over many changes in the city of Stirling, the ups and downs, the comings and goings."
The city of Perth (Australian edition) can get uncomfortably warm in summer. So locals call a cooling sea breeze "the Freemantle doctor," because it traditionally comes up the coast from the Port of Freemantle.
iss063e055126 (July 23, 2020) --- Perth, Australia is pictured from the International Space Station as it orbited west of the city above the Indian Ocean during an orbital night period.
Presenting a 1:2200 scale model of Perth CBD and surrounding area.
- 90 hours over 3 months
- 18,376 Bricks
- 78x78cm in size
40057 takes the Dundee line at Perth with 4A40 11:10 Edinburgh-Aberdeen parcels via Perth. April 1980
Still in very tatty green livery is class 40 40136 standing by the wall at Perth station it had been shunting stock so i managed to get a few pictures of it in action. 30 /08/1976.
image Kevin Connolly - All rights reserved so please do no use this without my explicit permission
Perth again on I suspect the same day as the photo of 27032.
This time we have Class 40 40173 on what is probably an Aberdeen to Glasgow service.
40173 is the loco whose bodyshell spent a long time on sleepers at Perth after withdrawl. It also worked the railtour to Portsmouth and Brighton which I travelled on and photos of which are on the stream.
Image from a negative in my collection by an unknown photographer.
Early morning visit to catch sunrise over Perth. A popular location for shots of city at this time of day.
My 'dark cupboard discovery' today was a rather underexposed Agfa slide with a horrible colour cast so typical of this type of film. A quick Adobe Photoshop session has ended up with what is for me a very pleasing result, reviving memories of a wonderful week spent in Scotland in the summer of 1969. Green-liveried English Electric Type 4 No. D360 pauses at Perth heading an Aberdeen to Glasgow Queen Street service on 5th August 1969. After spending a number of years in Scotland and renumbered as 40160 under the TOPS scheme, it migrated south and was active up until November 1984 when finally withdrawn from service from Longsight Depot. It was cut up at Crewe Works during February 1987.
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27105 arrives with the 2L31 Queen Street to Dundee service as the class 37 with a sick engine waits to leave with in the summer of 1980.
37238 waits to leave with the 1D30 to Motherwell.
Thanks to 'Marra Man' for the WTT info.
A field of artificial poppies to commemorate the fallen on WWI for the upcoming Remembrance Day.
King's Park, Perth, WA, AU 🇦🇺