Area Programmes

Perth College UHI provides further and higher education through a campus, a network of learning centres and distance learning options across Scotland and the world. Learn about available courses, from Hairdressing to Construction, to postgraduate Masters programmes, leisure classes and everything in-between. The college is a partner in the UHI Millennium Institute network, which is working to achieve university status.

Guided tours of the Perth campus will be offered on the hour.

For more information and to book places please contact Perth College (01738) 877000, www.perth.ac.uk.

Built in the mid 1970s, Perth Fire Station provides cover for Perth and the wider Perthshire area and is the only station in Perth and Kinross crewed by around eighty full-time fire fighters, operating with four fire engines.

Perth Fire Station includes the regional Tayside Fire and Rescue Training Centre which delivers scenario training for fire fighters and includes simulations of building collapse, compartment fires and road traffic collisions.

Pre-booking essential – please contact PKHT (01738) 477082. Access may be restricted to some areas as a result of ongoing renovation of the station.

Guided tours on Sunday at 10.00-11.00, 11.30-12.30, 13.30-14.30.

Pre-booked essential – please contact PKHT (01738) 477082.

The historic wooden-panelled Old Council Chambers occupies a site which has been the traditional civic hub of Perth since the 13th century. The room is used by Perth & Kinross Council Registration Service for civil marriages, partnerships, naming, renewal of vows and citizenship ceremonies. As well as registering contemporary life events, the Registrars also carry out family history research.

A rolling visual presentation will be on show with information about the Family History Services, and Keekin for Kin booklets will be available with handouts about the history of the room.

Staff will be on hand to guide visitors through the courts and down below, to the cells!

Guided tours half hourly, participation will be on a first come first served basis (restricted to 20 persons per tour).

Originally built as a prestigious private house in 1825, this 2-storey classical style villa overlooks the South Inch. The interior is largely original with moulded plasterwork in the principal rooms. The house was acquired in 2003 by Subud Britain, a registered charity.

Exhibitions will be on display by groups and individuals who currently use the Centre. Wheelchair access to ground floor only. Limited on-street parking, free on Sunday.

An exhibition explaining the proposals will be on show and a presentation by the architect will be followed by guided tours in the afternoon. Presentation at 11.00 (ticketed but free), tours at 14.00, 15.00 and 16.00.

Pre-booking essential – please contact Perth Theatre (01738) 621031.

Housed within a converted 19th-century workman’s cottage, stable and wagon-shed, the ‘Press Here’ Workshop still uses hand-set lead type for letterpress printing, the method first introduced by Androw Myllar to Scotland over 500 years ago.

Visitors will be able to try part of the printing process. A family day on Sunday will include activities such as paper making.

The architectural elements of this huge civil engineering scheme were designed by Harold Tarboulton in 1953 and comprise the most visible part of the vast Tummel Garry Hydro Electric scheme covering 750 square miles of central Perthshire.

The dam holds back the man-made Loch Faskally and has two massive gates, which control the water level.

Perth’s poet William Soutar lived at 27 Wilson Street from 1924 until his premature death in 1943. He wrote about Perth and its people through diaries, essays and criticism, but his great contribution to Scots literature was as a poet. Visit the room where he spent 13 years, bedridden by spinal illness, but still engaged in the world and writing prolifically.