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Stanley United Free Church Roll of Honour.

Stanley United Free Church Roll of Honour.

Stanley Parish Church Roll of Honour. (I am hoping to obtain a better copy of this shortly).

Miss Ann Scott and Mrs Annie McHardy

Stanley Church clock - probably stopped at this time for ever.

Damage to the Church is visible in this photo.

Tom Symon doesn't know the occasion but Mary Symon front row 5th left and it could be John Culbert with the fishing rod. Any more names please?

The late Beth Kennedy

Kirk Session. Back: L to R: Ian Baxter, Sam McGowan. Next: Bob Leslie, Dave Fleming, Willie Burns, Sandie Wells. Next: Winton Brunton, Jim Shaw, ??, Isobel McGregor, Jean Rae, Stewart Dingle, Abbie Duff. Seated: Minnie Clark, Beth Kennedy, Alex Nicoll, Rev Ron Greig, Jean McGowan, Isobel Hunter, Chris Palmer.

Sunday School Picnic May 1952. I can see Ian Wells extreme left eating crisps. Ernie Anderson in the middle and possibly Lorna West in the middle. The late Elsie McCrorie is extreme right on the front row. Any more names?

Sunday School Picnic 1950's at Dunkeld. Phaimie Carmichael is the adult at the back. Other names are Stuart Dunbar, Helen Edwards, Hazel Kyle, and possibly a Manse Cres Morton centre front. Any more names?

The late Beth Kennedy with a shy youngster and the Reverend Derek Lawson.

Back L to R: Alex Nicoll, ??, Linda Rennie (Cunningham), David Nicoll, Alastair Paton,Mary Rennie. Middle: Captain Scott, ??. Front: ??, Beth Kennedy, Helen Ritchie, ??.

Back L to R: Linda Rennie (Cunningham), June Stewart, Mary Rennie, Alex Nicoll. "Fighting" David Nicoll, ??. Seated: Beth Kennedy, ??, ??.

Back L to R: ??, ??, Jennifer Fraser, ??, ??, Beth Kennedy, ??, Mary Rennie, ??. Middle: ??, David Nicoll, June Stewart. Seated: Mary Nicoll, ??, ??, ??, ??.

Back L to R: Captain Scott, Linda Rennie (Cunningham), David Nicoll, Alex Nicoll. Front: ??, Mary Rennie, Beth Kennedy, ??.

Preparing for a Christmas Party. L to R: Mairi Scott, ??, Isobel Baxter, Eileen Thomson, Beth Kennedy, Isobel (MacLauchlan) McGregor, P Hermann, Jane Rattray, Isobel Hunter, Mrs McNab. Girl in front unknown.

Sunday School Picnic. Back L to R: John Culbert, ?? Kathleen Cameron(?), Donella Firth, Kathleen Ritchie, Norma Fraser, Lorna West, Mary Haimes, Wanda Kilgour(?), ??, Mrs McLeish, Alvin Dickson. Middle: Ian Culbert, Gordon Jolly, Sandy Wells, Ray Northcott, ??, Ian McIntosh, Norrie Collier, Gordon Howie, Alan Wells, Ernest Anderson, Rev Nairn McLeish. Front: Frances Donaldson, ? Menzies, Maureen Farquharson, ??, Maureen West, Jeanette Davidson, Betty Menzies, Carol Cowie, Sheena Morton.

Church Fete. Back: L to R May Evans, Fergie Mitchell, Beth Kennedy, Mary Duff, Isobel Hunter, ? MacLean, Olive Chisholm. Seated: Mrs Davidson, L Duff, Gillian Duff.

Church Fete. L to R: Elizabeth Cameron, Liz McKerchar, Beth Kennedy, Isobel Hunter, Nancy Merchant.

Tay Salmon and Pearls - Nancy Morris.

Theatre - Irene Lamond

GA - Nan Tait.

Perth hospitals - Isobel Walton.

Some of the flower arrangers. L to R: Nan Tait, Dick Johnston, Mary Nicoll, Elizabeth Cameron, Pat Lamond, Moira Lawson, June Strachan, Joanna Anderson, Isobel Walton, Marjorie MacFarlane, Irene Lamond. Missing from photo, Jean Burns, Nancy Morris & Kate Baldie.

L to R: Dick Johnston, Former Provost Bob Scott, Lady Provost Sara Hulbert, Mary Nicoll & Provost John Hulbert.

Smeaton's Bridge. Joanna Anderson, Dick Johnston, Mary Nicoll & June Strachan. The bridge was built by Dick Johnston.

Glass making in Perth - Moira Lawson.

Church Service at the Festival of the River Tay.

Church Service at the Festival of the River Tay.

Church Service at the Festival of the River Tay.

Church Service at the Festival of the River Tay.

Mrs David Stein , Sabbath School Teacher first in Dundee and then Stanley, a service of about 61 years.

The Kirk of the Muir, Kinclaven. Oldest U.P. Church in Scotland. Built 1744. Repaired 1830. It is now a ruin on the edge of Taymount Wood. Mary Slessor, the Missionary, attended a service there in 1907 (see Stanley Facts page for more details of Mary Slessor).

Mrs Davidson, Jim Shaw and Rev Ron Greig. Presentation of Sunday School Certificates.

Stanley Church at sunset. Photo taken December 2009.

Church Operetta.

Church Operetta.

Tower Church Fete. Rev T C Sinton, Tower Church Minister is on the left (it is understood he was a hockey internationalist). Nurse Robertson is seated at the head of the table.

A scene from "Twelve till five". A short play produced at Stanley Tower Church Young People's Guild. L to R: Miss E Menzies, Miss N Burns, Miss R Lennon and Miss M Christie.

L to R: Mrs McNab, ??, May Grant, Mrs Kennedy, Mrs Davidson Mrs Reid.

Church Sunday School Picnic. In this photo are Alice Panton, Jean Carmichael, Phemie Carmichael, Graham, Catherine and Alan McCabe and ? Dunbar.

Church Sunday School Picnic. L to R: ??, Cathy Brindle, M Cameron, Madge Mitchell, Mrs Cameron, Mrs Ruxton.

In this photo are Mrs Whyte, Mrs Mitchell, Mrs Campbell, Mrs McCraw, Mrs Johnston, Miss Hunter and on the front row. Phyllis Scott is first left and Mrs E Thomson extreme right.

Inside view of Tower Church.

Fiona Maclean (McConnell).

Stanley Church clock mechanism. This clock was gifted to the church and only two were ever made. The other clock is in Russia.

Top of the Kirk quiz. Runners up - the Sunday School teachers who are in this photo. Back L to R: Jim Shaw, Mrs McNab, John Culbert, Sam McGowan Front: Rev Graham, Phyllis Scott, Captain Scott, Mrs McCraw.

Abby Duff, Sandra ? & Winton Brunton.

Church Junior Choir.

Church Sunday School play Snow White & the 7 Dwarves. L to R: Jennifer McConnell, Eileen Scott, Brenda Taylor, Cynthia Shaw.

The Seven Dwarves. Ann Buchan, Marjorie Culbert, Cynthia Shaw, ? Menzies, Johann Anderson, Sheila McLean, Alan Taylor.

Stanley Tower Church floodlit.

Church Sale of Work. L to R: ??, Mrs Pirie, Nellie Bayne, Phyllis Culbert, Mary Duff, Mrs Mitchell, Miss Hughes.

Recording Songs of Praise in North Church Perth. Abby Duff is extreme right second row.

Church Concert. Back L to R: Margo Leckie, Jacqueline Thom, Christine Scott, Erna Anderson, Linda Mitchell, Gill Duff, Wilma Gowrie. Front: Elspeth Reid, Sylvia Shaw, Lorraine Coutts, Melanie Tewkes, Avril Anderson, Valerie Shaw.

Sunday School Teachers. Back: Winifred Hutton, Margaret Blake, Beth Kennedy. Front: Jean McIntosh, Cathy Kettles, Jeanette Davidson.

Robert Baldie, May Grant, Murray Sime and Alistair Mclean take part in a sponsored walk to Loch Ordie on behalf of Stanley Parish Church.

Stall Holders at United Free Church Sale of Work. Back. L to R: Mrs J Munro, Mrs Harrington, Jean Stewart, Mary Duff, Mrs Greer (Minister's wife), Olive Chisholm, Mrs Graham, Mrs Kilgour. Middle: Mrs Coutts, Mrs Dunbar, Mrs Josephs, Mrs Murray, Mrs Rodgers, Mrs Duff, Miss Craigie. Front: Mrs Runciman, Mrs Cramb, Mrs Buchanan, Catriona Greer, Vanda Kilgour, Mrs Lennon, Mrs Kyle.

Stanley Dancers at Perth City Hall: In this photo are Margaret Josephs back row centre. Middle: Cathy Kettles extreme left. Front: Jessie & Margaret Christie.

Cathy Kettles, Beth Kennedy, Margaret Blake and either Peter or Michael Stott.

Sunday School Christmas Party. Back. L to R: Hilary Stevenson, Pauline Fertacz, Phyllis Morton, Sandra West, Donna Farquharson, Ian Fraser, Leslie Taylor, Lindsay Roy, Mike Fertacz, Ian Wells. 2nd back. Ingrid Stevenson, Michael Kilgour, Jimmy Culbert, May Welsh, Lesley Donaldson, Sybil Dunbar, Dod Jolly, Miriam Davidson, Gladys Anderson, ? McMorran, Jimmy McMorran. 3rd back: Johnny Davidson, Doe Davidson, Graham Northcott, Brian Roy, Anne Fertacz, George Cowie, Margaret Davidson, Richard Cameron, Jimmy Mitchell, John Davidson, Alex Duncanson. Sitting: David Lowrie, Ronald Northcott, Edna Allan, Yvonne Robertson, Helen Edwards, Gordon Stewart, Stuart Dunbar, John Robb, Ann Lowrie, Werner Reiche.

Sunday School Picnic at Crieff. Back L to R: Beth Kennedy, Raymond Northcott, ??, Ian Wells, Neil Donaldson, John Robb, Sandra West, Ian Culbert, John Turner, Jimmy Simpson, Jimmy Culbert, ??, George Cowie. 2nd back row: Cathy Kettles, Jo-Anne Lennon, Michael Kilgour, Werner Reiche, Peter Stott, Hilary Stevenson, Phyllis Morton, Ann Gourlay, ? Bendall, Margaret Kay, Anne Fertacz, ??, Lindsay Ross, Margaret Blake. 3rd row: Ingrid Stevenson, Graham Northcott, Stewart Dunbar, Sybil Dunbar, Sandra Graham, Dennis Graham, Ronald Northcott, Pauline Fertacz. Front: Donna Farquharson, ??, Willie Burns, Leslie Taylor, Johnny Davidson, Doe Davidson, Johnny Graham, Miriam Davidson, Gladys Anderson, Brian Roy. Bottom right: Mary Kyle.

Sunday School Christmas Party. Help with names required. I can recognise (Jennifer?) McConnell 2nd left in the back row. Eileen Scott in the centre of the middle row and (?) Buchan 2nd left in the front row.

Before global warming??

Sunday School Choir. Back L to R: Gillian Halley, Elspeth Reid, Joyce Grant, Valerie Shaw, ? Gowrie, ? Whyte, Caroline Myles, Gill Duff, Mayra Cathro, Sylvia Shaw. Middle. Katherine Bremner, Joyce Clark, Louise Duff, Rosemary Bendall, ??, Derek Halley, Stewart Grant, Gordon Myles, Yvonne Gibb, Dale Whytock, Nan Morton, Dawn Whytock. Front: Sheena McFarlane, Claire Wilson, Isobel Johnston, Susan Reid, Nicola Dunbar, Jennifer Ritchie, Moira Leckie, Ruth Anderson, Nicola Whytock, Isobel Myles.

Sunday School Picnic. Front: Roddy Lynch, Helen Edwards and her Granny, Sybil Dunbar, Margaret Kay and her Mum behind.

Sunday School Picnic. Sheena Morton, Betty Menzies, Jeanette Davidson. Front. Margaret Kay.

Tower Church.

St James' Church - 1899.

St Columbas Church.

View from Tower Church looking up Charlotte Street.

Back: Joyce Buchan, Alison Stewart, ? Gow, Kathryn Gourlay, Caroline Brown, Donna Farquharson, Jane Murray. Front: ? Ferguson, J Mitchell, ? Davidson, ? Gow.

Sunday School picnic? Front row extreme right Alison Firth and next to her Gloria McKinlay.

Back: L to R: Buff Harrington, Jimmie Dunbar, Hamish Morrison, Tom Symon, Margaret Collier, Jean McIntosh, Margaret Jeffrey, Ian Graham, Davie Stein, Peter Cameron, Donald Morrison, Norrie Collier, Albert Harvey, Billy Smith. Front: Ian McIntosh, Davie Jeffrey, Ian Forbes, Anne Dunbar, ??, ??, Davie Graham.

Stanley Church Choir taken outside Perth City Hall. Back: L to R Jean Stewart, Mrs Sutherland, Beth Kennedy. Middle: Alex Scott, Mary Bryson, Madge Mitchell, Mary McArthur, Helen Robb, May Evans, Joey Mentiply. Front: Margaret Harvey, Mrs Cramb, Maggie Christie, Jessie Christie, Leslie Coutts, Cathy Kettles, Beth Farquharson.

Back. L to R: Bob Leslie, Alan Robertson, Winton Brunton, Sam McGowan, Abby Duff, Ronnie Mitchell. Middle: Sandy Rattray, Alastair Paton, Jock McDonald, Beth Kennedy, Stuart Dingle, Sandy Wells, Wullie Burns. Front: Dick Johnston, Jim Shaw, Davy Fleming, Rev A Graham, Wattie Wilks, Bob Davidson, Ian Baxter.

Church Outing. Back: D Phillips, Mrs Damie, Mrs Murray, Mrs Fothergill, ??, ??, Mrs Josephs, Mrs Stewart, Miss Craigie, ??, ??, Mrs Munro, Miss Samuel, Mrs Haggart, ??, Miss Samuel, Mrs Coutts. Front: ??, ??, Mrs Melville, Miss Chisholm, Mrs Rodger, Mrs Dunbar.

Church Nativity Play. In this photo is ? Crichton, Mona Taylor, Anne Phillips, Margaret Cameron, Dorothy Balnaves, Betty Dickie, Betty Williamson, Nan McNaughton, Alice Stewart, Cathy Reid, Sheena McKerchar, Margaret Melville.

Church Choir. Alex Scott, Cathy Kettles, Norma Fothergill, Mrs Burnfield, Bella Samuel, Mrs Cramb, Mrs Coutts, Mrs Melville, Miss Hunter, Mrs McHardy, Miss McFarlane, May Evans, Winnie Kay, Mrs Kay, Mrs Mentiply. (thanks to Beth Kennedy for the names).

Andy Smith and Abby Duff.

L to R: Mary Rennie, Isobel Baxter and Nancy Morris.

Back: L to R: May Evans, Mrs Mitchell, Beth Kennedy, Mary Duff, Miss Hunter, Mrs McLean, Miss Smith, Miss Chisholm. Front: Mrs Davidson, Mrs L Duff, Miss G Duff.

Back L to R: Mr A Paton,, Rev Ron Greig, Mrs M Paton, Jean Stewart, Mrs McCraw, Mr S McGowan, Front: Mrs I McGregor, Mrs MacNab, Miss I Hunter.

Back L to R: Mrs McNab, Isobel Hunter, Mr Brunton, ??, Beth Kennedy, ??, Olive Chisholm. Front: Mrs Thomson, Jean Stewart, Sandra White, Abby Duff, Mrs Reiche.

Reverend William Cochrane Malcolm. Stanley Minister from 1888 to 1917 until his death in office.

L to R: Captain Scott, Alec Nicoll, Stewart Robnertson, Mrs Scott, Beth Kennedy, Arlene ?, Mrs Graham, Mrs Cunningham, Mrs Ritchie, Mr Paton. Sitting: Miss Thain, Mrs Rennie, Kate Stephen, Jennifer Robertson, Mrs McCraw.

L to R: Jean Stewart, Margaret Reiche, May Evans, Elizabeth Thomson, Mrs McNab, Isobel Hunter, Beth Kennedy, Mrs E Thomson, Mrs McCraw, Olive Chisholm.

The copyright of this picture belongs to James K. White of King Street, Stanley. For copies or further details please contact JKW Fine Art Comrie Tel: 01764 671011. (Thanks for the loan James).

Inside view of Tower Church.

Church decorated for a wedding.

Mr McCraw and John Culbert fund raising for the Church.