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Offline buckhyne

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Re: The Gaelic Chapel in Perth
« Reply #9 on: Wednesday 30 July 14 17:01 BST (UK) »
If my memory is correct, the original Nightclub was Electric Whispers ?

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Aye, that's correct.
It's now called Zoo.
The plaque is still there but the white paint is now discoloured.

The plaque reads:
This building was
erected as a Gaelic Chapel 1787
Closed 1848 – 1855
used as St Stephen’s Church
1880 – 1885



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Re: The Gaelic Chapel in Perth
« Reply #10 on: Wednesday 30 July 14 19:19 BST (UK) »
What an interesting thing to come across..............you must be very observant !!!

Looks more like a jail from the outside than a church though. No windows.

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Re: The Gaelic Chapel in Perth
« Reply #11 on: Wednesday 30 July 14 19:43 BST (UK) »
What an interesting thing to come across..............you must be very observant !!!

Looks more like a jail from the outside than a church though. No windows.

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No really.
I predate the nightclubs and can remember when it was just a building with a bronze plaque.
That building must have had several alterations in the last couple of hundred years.
If you strip away the harling you would probably see bricked up windows and doorways.
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Re: The Gaelic Chapel in Perth
« Reply #12 on: Wednesday 27 July 16 16:34 BST (UK) »
Disaster! - The Gaelic Chapel is no more.
Another piece of history gone forever.









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Re: The Gaelic Chapel in Perth
« Reply #13 on: Wednesday 27 July 16 17:29 BST (UK) »
That is a very sad outcome, but thanks to those who have posted photographs.