We were very pleased to hear from John Hunt, the nephew of the late Miss Emily Hunt, who has donated a number of interesting newspaper cuttings, photos and other artefacts to C&SM. Many people who lived in the Crieff area before 1984 will remember F. N. Hunt, drapers at 2 High Street, of which Miss Hunt was the last proprietor, after two hundred years of the Hunt family being associated with the drapery trade in Perth and Crieff.

In 1905 Frederick Ninian Hunt left the family firm in Perth and opened two shops in King Street and in 1924 he took over a similar business (Ames) at 2 High Street and there it remained for sixty years and gave the name to “Hunt corner”.

One of the newspaper cuttings includes the announcement of the closure of the business in the Strathearn Herald of 17/11/1984 and this, along with several others will be featured in the articles on this web site or in the twitter feed in coming weeks. C&SM thanks John Hunt for his kindness and generosity and we look forward to showing him the Miss Hunt box file in the museum archive when we finally have it all set up.


Crieff Town Council Water Inspection at Loch Turret 1935 with Provost Hunt seated with glasses.