Doors Open Day: 10 & 11 September
Stirling Council Archives at the Engine Shed, Forthside Saturday 10th September, 10am – 4pm Sunday 11th September, 10am-4pm The Engine Shed, Forthside Way, Stirling, FK8 1QZ (over the spiky footbridge […]
Month: August 2016
Our Lady and St Ninian Church, Bannockburn
On Sunday 13th November 1927, Our Lady and St Ninian Church opened in Bannockburn. The building took two years to construct, with the original plans being approved on 17th April […]
Local Authority Housing in Stirling 1925 – 1954
The Stirling Dean of Guild plan series includes lots of plans of housing developments built by both Stirling Town Council and Stirling County Council. As well as being useful for […]
District Nurse’s House, Killin, 1935
Before the NHS was formed in 1948, District Nursing Associations (“DNA”) took responsibility for employing, paying and housing district nurses. In the 1930’s many DNAs began building modern houses for […]
Prisoner of War Camp, Killearn – March 1943
Over the course of World War Two, more than 500,000 prisoners of war (POW) arrived in Britain. Camps were situated throughout the county with army barracks and even stately homes […]
From Gothic to Modernist, Two Stirling Churches, 1904 and 1970
The designs for these two churches, separated by 66 years, could not be more different and show the changes in attitudes to church architecture through the 20th century. The first […]