Stirling County Council Library Service, 1939 – 1945
Our document of the month for August focuses on the Stirling County Council Library Service during World War Two. Two records highlight the successes and hardships they encountered during the […]
Author: Stirling Archives
Viola Stirling’s Nature Diary: 20 Dec 1921
It’s December and Viola is writing about her sightings of flocks of geese from the train into Stirling. Her previous diary entry from a few days earlier was written from […]
Viola Stirling’s Nature Diary – 17 Dec 1921
We are approaching Christmas in Viola’s next diary entry. She is exploring the grounds at Gartinstarry and notes some unusual features of a log she has found. Gartinstarry is located […]
Viola Stirling’s Nature Diary: 15 Oct & 20 Nov 1921
Viola’s last diary entries were written in the Highlands of Scotland in August. The next diary jumps ahead to autumn weekends in Harrogate, Yorkshire. Viola went to a boarding school […]
Viola Stirling’s Nature Diary: 19th & 20th August 1921
Viola is still on holiday in the Highlands of Scotland. On the 19th August 1921, she visited Rogie Falls near Strathpeffer. This beautiful spot remains a tourist attraction today and […]
Viola Stirling’s Nature Diary – 27 July 1921
It is important to remember that when Viola was writing her diary there was a completely different culture when it came to wildlife. Egg collecting, for example, was a common […]
Viola Stirling’s Nature Diary: 24 July 1921
It’s late July now, but Viola is recalling some other nature sightings from the past couple of months which she forgot to note at the time. She recalls seeing the […]
Community Archives Conference, Stornoway, Jun 2017
Trainee Archivist, Jennifer Marshall, received a travel bursary from the Archives and Records Association (ARA) allowing her to attend the Scottish Council on Archives conference in Stornoway. ‘Community Archives: Opportunities […]
Viola Stirling’s Nature Diary: 15th and 16th July 1921
Viola records in her diary that St Swithin’s day, the 15th of July, has been fine. She makes this note because of the belief connected with the name day of […]
Viola Stirling’s Nature Diary – 15 Jul 1921
Black-headed gulls are one of the easiest gulls to identify. As Viola notes, their heads are not really black but are instead a ‘coffee colour’. This distinctive feature only occurs […]