Tulloch, formerly known as Bleachfield,'' The Courier'', 27 June 1893, p. 5 is a

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, Scotland, approximately north-west of the centre of Perth. Tulloch is the western part of the area that borders Hillyland. The main access road to Tulloch, from the east or west, is Tulloch Road, reached via the Crieff Road ( A85), which bounds it to the south. It is also accessible, albeit less directly, from the Dunkeld Road ( A912), which bounds it to the north-east, via a modern housing development. It is bounded to the north-west by the A9. Tulloch has a small shopping precinct, Tulloch Square, located just off Tulloch Terrace. Tulloch Primary School, founded in 1969, is located on Gillespie Place. It can accommodate 400 pupils. Primrose Crescent, a main thoroughfare which, upon merging from Tulloch Road and Hillyland, circumnavigates Tulloch's oldest residential area before joining up with Tulloch Road again just before its western junction with Crieff Road. The skyline is dominated by several high-rise

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s (one of which is in view in the background of the infobox image). In addition to the new housing development in the north-east of Tulloch/Hillyland, homes have also been built to the north and west. These are in addition to the first development (Sandeman Court) that went up in the 1980s in the valley behind the primary school, near the

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at the bottom of the hill. Between the housing and the railway siding is Perth Lade, which is sourced from Low's Work, a

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on the River Almond south of

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, and empties away into the River Tay, near Smeaton's Bridge, via the city. A walking path runs parallel to the lade. Ladeside Court, a cul-de-sac off Fairfield Avenue, takes its name from the body of water. J. Pullar and Sons Ltd.'s Tulloch Works, a

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plant, once stood on the site of the present-day Bracken Brae. At the turn of the 20th century, architectural firm comprising John Honeyman, John Keppie and

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designed a row of buildings for workers at the dyeworks. They were single-storey, semi-detached roughcast cottages. There were also two two-storey blocks containing a total of ten flats. The eight cottages remain, today's 61–75 Tulloch Terrace; the two flats have been demolished. From certain parts of Tulloch, views are afforded of the hills beyond

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to the east, including an

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on the summit of a hill near Muirend. To the north, the

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can be seen.

Sport

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, the home of Perth's professional football club, St Johnstone, is located on Crieff Road at the western edge of Tulloch, in close proximity to the

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, while

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club Kinnoull are based on Tulloch Road.

Transport

Tulloch can be reached via the number 1 and number 2

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es from the centre of Perth. The number 1 originates from Mill Street; the number 2 from South Street.Stagecoach - Timetables

Businesses

Morris Young Ltd., a

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company, was located between Crieff and Tulloch Roads just beyond their junction between 1952 and 2020. Its lorry fleet was visible parked atop the hill located at the former Hillyland Farm.

Notable people

* Stuart Cosgrove – prior to moving to nearby Letham, Cosgrove and his family lived in Tulloch"BROADCASTER STUART COSGROVE IS FULL OF NORTHERN SOUL"
- ScottishField.co.uk, 21 June 2019 * Archibald Sandeman, scholar''Library World'', Volume 1 (1899), p. 94

Gallery

File:Tulloch_Primary_School.jpeg, Tulloch Primary School, after its £11-million expansion in 2018"PICTURES: £11m new primary school opened in Perth"
- ''The Courier'', 26 June 2018 File:Tulloch, Perth.JPG, A view of Primrose Crescent, near its junction with Pullar Terrace File:Primrose_Crescent.jpeg, The first home in a

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References

External links

A view of Tulloch, looking west.
{dead link, date=January 2018 , bot=InternetArchiveBot , fix-attempted=yes Tulloch Primary School can be seen at the bottom. McDiarmid Park is just left of centre. To its left, the Crieff Road is seen extending into the distance.
A photograph of a bus on Murray Street in Perth heading for Tulloch, via LethamTulloch Primary School
Populated places in Perth, Scotland