'Perth and Kinross Council set to apologise for "Tinker Experiment" pain caused to Gypsy Traveller families'
The Bobbin Mill site in Pitlochry was the first site for the government's programme of forcibly settling Travellers. People were settled against their will in converted Nissen huts, without utilities and full of asbestos. Communities were surveilled and children were taken from families.
TT article with context: https://www.travellerstimes.org.uk/news/2025/07/tinker-experiments-should-not-have-happened-scottish-government-apologises-yet-agree
