East on Jeanfield Road, Perth, New Year 1979

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The photograph on this page of East on Jeanfield Road, Perth, New Year 1979 by Robin Stott as part of the Geograph project.

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East on Jeanfield Road, Perth, New Year 1979

Image: © Robin Stott Taken: 1 Jan 1979

Dusk gathers, early afternoon at the turn of the year. 36-ish years later, StreetView shows that the building with the wee cupola, centre, has gone; the site is grass and bushes but the row of lime trees is still there. The building on the right is a tall two-storey stone affair with a prominent fire escape stair on the west side. A couple of cars are parked at the front behind an untended front garden in which is a sign headed 'Scottish Executive'. At the left edge of the photo are three-storey stone-built houses or flats. The evergreen trees beyond them are at the entrance to Perth Cemetery. Satellite photos suggest that Perth has changed a lot but maybe I didn't get to know the town well. Certainly, the prominent building with the chimney, left, cannot be found on aerial photos. Across the River Tay, Kinnoull Hill catches the sun in Image Thanks to Tam for suggesting Jeanfield Road as the location. Scanned from a Kodak Ektachrome 200 slide, ref 78·21·06 (year, film, frame), cleaned up, straightened and lightened.

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Image Location

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Latitude
56.398167
Longitude
-3.44819