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Church Street, PERTH, PH1 2BB

Gravestones in Wellshill cemetery, some unstable and near to collapse.

Gravestones at Wellshill cemetery in Perth, which dates from the 1840s.

ETERNAL GLORY TO THE POLISH SOLDIERS WHO DIED IN 1939-1945 FOR OUR FREEDOM AND YOURS CHWA¸A ûO¸NIERZOM POLSKIM POLEG¸YM W LATACH 1939-1945 ZA NASZÑ WOLNOÂå I WASZÑ At the Jeanfield Road entrance to Wellshill Cemetery, Perth.

The rows of white gravestones in the middle distance indicate the final resting places of the remains of 381 members of the Polish Armed Forces. The Poles came to Scotland after the fall of France in 1940.

Taken from Cherrybank

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.