Christmas Countdown: Victorian Christmas cards
These interesting cards are held by the Council Archives as part of the lovely collection of papers of the Stirling family of Gargunnock. Victorians did send some traditional cards with […]
Christmas Countdown
Christmas Countdown: Evacuees Christmas, 1939
The records of Stirling County Council include some details of the children evacuated to rural Stirlingshire in the Second World War. Children evacuated from areas that were considered to be […]
Christmas Countdown: Plean Nursery Christmas Treat, c.1970
This delightful photograph of Plean Nursery children receiving a visit from Santa was shared with the Archives by Plean Library staff. +2
Christmas Countdown: Curling at Dunblane, 1920s
These lovely photographs were shared with the Archives by Mrs Helen Syme or Munro, who attended our ‘Re:Collections’ day at Dunblane Library in December 2016. They show curling matches played […]
Christmas Countdown: Christmas Parties
It is the week before Christmas so we are going to post every day this week for our traditional Archives Christmas Countdown. Most people will be attending works ‘dos’, nativity […]
The Christie Memorial Clock in Snow, 1996
Stirling Council Archives staff would like to wish everyone a very Merry Christmas and all good things for 2017. We hope to see you in the New Year! +36
Christmas Party Planning, 1970s Style!
This lovely handwritten document from 1970 shows a mix of the traditional and the modern (for the time). While the cake and pudding recipes are similar to what we might […]
Torbrex in the snow, 1996
Our featured images today were kindly donated by Marion Jackson as part of the ReCollections project. They show Torbrex in the snow in 1996. Unfortuantely it doesn’t look like we […]
Plean Nursery at Christmas!
Our image today is of a christmas event at a nursery in Plean. We’re not quite sure of the date or the specific group, so if you have any information […]
Stirling University playgroup Christmas party, 1985
This image is taken from a collection of records belonging to the Bridge of Allan branch of the WRVS. It shows a playgroup Christmas party at Stirling University in 1985. […]