Perth, Hay Street, Balhousie Castle, Black Watch War Memorial — Report the wrong picture

What is recorded here

Balhousie Castle stands on Hay Street in Perth, its Black Watch War Memorial marking lives lost across centuries of service. The castle has watched the city since medieval times, its stones holding echoes of soldiers who marched out and never returned. The memorial transforms private grief into public memory, giving shape to the absence that war leaves behind.

Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Perth, Hay Street, Balhousie Castle, Black Watch War Memorial as War Memorial (21st Century) (2005), War Memorial(s) (20th Century). The official map says its point is accurate as follows: NGR given to the nearest 1m. The record does not by itself mean that the public may enter the place.

Balhousie Castle, located on Hay Street in Perth, was originally built in the early 14th century by the Bishops of Dunkeld and later held by the Gordon family from the 16th century. It is historically significant as one of the best-preserved medieval castles in Scotland and is associated with the Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment), for whom a 21st-century war memorial is located on its grounds.

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