14th - 16th April Balhousie Castle

To commemorate the wounded and fallen of the 51st Highland Division, The Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) Association commissioned well-known Scottish artist Alan Beattie Herriot to sculpt a bronze 3/4 height statue depicting a piper of The Black Watch dressed in Second World War battledress to be erected in the grounds of Balhousie Castle. The Central Scotland Branch were delighted to be invited to build a curved dry stone wall to surround the statue.

The build took place over 3 days and was overseen by Jim Grant's expert eye. With beautifully flat bedded stone the team made short work of the wall over Friday and Saturday, leaving only the final copes to be placed by Sunday.

Unfortunately we were short of a few copes.

But if there's one thing Scotland isn't short of, it's stone! By Sunday we'd managed to source a number of ideal candidates and the wall was done. After a quick tidy up the copes were removed and mortared back in place.

For more information on The Black Watch Museum head over to https://www.theblackwatch.co.uk/