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CURLING is a Winter sport which originated in Scotland and can be traced back to the Middle Ages. The oldest curling stone dates from 1511 and is in the Stirling Smith Museum. Scottish emigrants took the game to other countries, and curling is particularly popular in Canada.
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The earliest reference to markets and fairs in the Parish of Blairgowrie may be found in the 1796 Statistical Account in which Rev.James Johnstone writes: "There are three fairs held annually and some attempts have been made to have a weekly market, but with little success".
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The River Ericht once drove a remarkable series of 14 spinning mills. Originally working with flax before later changing to spin jute, these mills brought employment and prosperity to the Blairgowrie and Rattray area for much of the last 200 years.
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James Croll was born in 1821 into poverty at Little Whitefield, near Wolfhill, Perthshire, around 10 miles from Blairgowrie. In 1864 James Croll’s paper ‘On the Physical Cause of the Change of Climate during Glacial Epochs’ was published in the Philosophical Magazine. Global recognition followed the publication of his book ‘Climate and Time’ in 1875.
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Kirk Wynd on the Hill o’ Blair is where the town of Blairgowrie began back in Medieval times.
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