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Kirriemuir Camera ObscuraThe Kirriemuir Camera Obscura is a rare example of a camera obscura, built in Kirriemuir in Angus, housed in a purpose-designed turret room within the cricket pavilion on Kirriemuir Hill. The building is owned by the National Trust for Scotland; donated in 1930 by J M Barrie, the author of Peter Pan. The technology, cutting-edge in its time, is kept working today, providing through an ingenious mechanism of mirrors and lenses a secret view of the surrounding countryside, cast in images into the darkened interior of the building. (Read more) |
