An overlooked masterpiece to a fallen hero.

The Pullar Family Memorial in Logie Cemetery.

Last week I was off to Logie Old Kirk (perhaps founded around 685) for a little look at the hogbacks but decided to start with the 19th century cemetery. Between red squirrels and roe deer I spotted a very handsome monument to the Pullar family (more of them later). This was clearly the largest and most expensive monument in the cemetery. Its at least 8 graves as there are inscriptions on the reverse and its clearly Art Nouveaux, the large bronze plaque is wonderful.

The bronze is an interesting and complex image and I’m not going to analyse it but its clearly mourners and the verse He bringeth them unto their desired heaven is from Psalm 107. The work is signed Geo. Framton 1902.

---

but before that….just to let you know I’ll be leading a guided tour of the Old Town cemetery on Sunday 13th April from 2-3:30, Tickets here.

---

Returning to the sculpture…and Geo. Framton 1902.

Now this was a surprise as Sir George Framton RA is internationally famous and responsible for amongst other things the Peter Pan Statue in London’s Kensington Gardens

and the St Mungo at the Kelvingrove.

The Pullars of Perth

The Pullars of Perth were a remarkable family, they established a large and successful business in Perth, they founded the Pullar Memorial Park in Bridge of Allan, lived in the now demolished Westerston House and supported the first systematic works to survey Scottish Lochs. Laurence Pullar funded the work and his son Fred Pullar helped.

---

---

On 15 February 1901 Fred was skating with several hundred people on Airthrey Loch in front of Airthrey Castle in what’s now Stirling University, when the ice gave way. Accounts related that Fred rescued three people and returned to rescue a young woman. Both he and the woman drowned; he was 26 years old.

Airthrey Castle - geograph.org.uk - 1225666 - Frederick Pullar - Wikipedia

---

Have a question? Get in contact!

---

It is always hard to conclude such stories, death and sacrifice from a family that gave so much. Its also surprising just how big the contrast is between then and now, the money to maintain such large estates simply vanished in the middle of the 20th century. Everything of course decays, so we must always make the most of what we have and to support those we can, to live good lives and so that we, like Fred can be remembered with pride and admiration.