Opening of Doune Primary School, 1969
At Stirling Council Archives we are currently re-cataloguing our school records to make them more accessible to users and researchers. This has given us the chance to re-examine the school […]
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1-11 George Street, Doune – Thomas McLaren
When visitors to the village of Doune, or indeed residents of the village walk passed a row of terraced cottages 1 – 11 George Street, often they will mistake the […]
Lodge for Cemetery Superintendent, Callander, 1928
A new lodge was built for the Superintendent at Callander Cemetery in 1929. At this time the Superintendent was Mr Donald McLaren who earned £2.15 per week. Accommodation of the […]
D & J MacEwen & Co., Family Grocers and Wine Merchants, Dumbarton Road and Port Street
D & J MacEwen’s grocery shop and wine and spirits merchant business was founded by brothers Daniel and James MacEwen in 1794. The Archives holds a customer account book dating […]
Touch Estate – Overseer’s House
Situated to the west of Cambusbarron is Touch Estate. The estate has been primarily owned by the Setons, a powerful family who acquired the land from the Frasers in the […]
Medical Bill to Robert Craigie from Dr Thomas Lucas , 22nd December 1795
This bill, sent by Dr Thomas Lucas to his client, Robert Craigie, gives details of the treatment of Craigie’s daughter for venereal disease between the 21st November and the 16th […]
Suffragettes & Allt Grianach, Lochearnhead, 1935
Misses Margaret Greenlees, Margaret Ker and Vera Holme submitted an application in 1935 to alter Dunearn House at Lochearnhead. At this time the ladies were residing at Tigh-na-Crich, Lochearnhead. They […]
Cinemas in Stirling 1911 – 1938
Motion pictures came to Stirling relatively early after the invention of the motion picture camera in the 1890s and the town had several cinemas indicating the popularity of going to […]
Cowie Pit Houses – Alloa Coal Company
Before 1894, Cowie was a very small village formed of cottages and farmland. The next fifteen years would see Cowie rapidly grow. From 1894-1909, a church, school and bowling green […]
Edith Burnet Hughes (1888 – 1971)
Edith Mary Wardlaw Burnet Hughes was the first practicing woman architect in Britain. Stirling Council Archives holds some of her architectural drawings amongst its collection of building records. In 1914 […]