The speaker for the 2012 Annual Lecture was Dr Lindsay Lennie, the leading Scottish expert on historic shop conservation whose book on Historic Shopfronts is published by Historic Scotland. See http://www.historicshopfronts.co.uk. Some of Aberfeldy's shop fronts were built by John Macnaughton who built many of MacLaren's buildings - see volume 9 of the Journal.

The Lecture and AGM was held in Aberfeldy Town Hall, itself a MacLaren building.