Tulloch, formerly known as Bleachfield,
['' The Courier'', 27 June 1893, p. 5] is a
residential area
A residential area is a land used in which housing predominates, as opposed to industrial and commercial areas.
Housing may vary significantly between, and through, residential areas. These include single-family housing, multi-family residen ...
of
Perth
Perth () is the list of Australian capital cities, capital city of Western Australia. It is the list of cities in Australia by population, fourth-most-populous city in Australia, with a population of over 2.3 million within Greater Perth . The ...
, Scotland, approximately north-west of the city centre. 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 flats.
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 railway siding at the bottom of the hill. Between the housing and the railway siding is Perth Lade, which is sourced from Low's Work, a ]weir
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on the River Almond south of Almondbank, and empties away into the River Tay
The River Tay (, ; probably from the conjectured Brythonic ''Tausa'', possibly meaning 'silent one' or 'strong one' or, simply, 'flowing' David Ross, ''Scottish Place-names'', p. 209. Birlinn Ltd., Edinburgh, 2001.) is the longest river in Sc ...
, near Smeaton's Bridge, via the city. A walking path runs parallel to the lade. Ladeside Court, a cul-de-sac
A dead end, also known as a ''cul-de-sac'' (; , ), a no-through road or a no-exit road, is a street with only one combined inlet and outlet.
Dead ends are added to roads in urban planning designs to limit traffic in residential areas. Some d ...
off Fairfield Avenue, takes its name from the body of water.
J. Pullar and Sons Ltd.'s Tulloch Works, a dry cleaning
Dry cleaning is any cleaning process for clothing and textiles using a solvent other than water. Clothes are instead soaked in a water-free liquid solvent (usually non-polar, as opposed to water which is a Solvent#Solvent classifications, polar ...
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 Charles Rennie Mackintosh
Charles Rennie Mackintosh (7 June 1868 – 10 December 1928) was a Scottish architect, designer, water colourist and artist. His artistic approach had much in common with European Symbolism. His work, alongside that of his wife Margaret Macd ...
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. Pullars also built Tulloch School, for their workers' children, in 1895.Scone
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to the east, including an obelisk
An obelisk (; , diminutive of (') ' spit, nail, pointed pillar') is a tall, slender, tapered monument with four sides and a pyramidal or pyramidion top. Originally constructed by Ancient Egyptians and called ''tekhenu'', the Greeks used th ...
on the summit
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The term (mountain top) is generally used only for ...
of a hill near Muirend. To the north, the Grampian Mountains
The Grampian Mountains () is one of the three major mountain ranges in Scotland, that together occupy about half of Scotland. The other two ranges are the Northwest Highlands and the Southern Uplands. The Grampian range extends northeast to so ...
can be seen.
Sport
McDiarmid Park
McDiarmid Park is a stadium in Perth, Scotland, Perth, Scotland, used mainly for association football. It has been the home ground of Scottish Premiership side St Johnstone F.C., St Johnstone since its opening in 1989. The stadium has an All-seat ...
, the home of Perth's professional football
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club, St Johnstone, is located on Crieff Road at the western edge of Tulloch, in close proximity to the crematorium
A crematorium, crematory or cremation center is a venue for the cremation of the Death, dead. Modern crematoria contain at least one cremator (also known as a crematory, retort or cremation chamber), a purpose-built furnace. In some countries a ...
, while junior club Kinnoull are based on Tulloch Road.
Transport
Tulloch can be reached via the number 1 and number 2 buses 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
haulage 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 terrace
Terrace may refer to:
Landforms and construction
* Fluvial terrace, a natural, flat surface that borders and lies above the floodplain of a stream or river
* Terrace, a street suffix
* Terrace, the portion of a lot between the public sidewalk a ...
References
External links
A view of Tulloch, looking west.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.
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A photograph of a bus on Murray Street in Perth heading for Tulloch, via Letham}
Tulloch Primary School
Populated places in Perth, Scotland