These spacious flats were designed by McLuckie and Walker, Architects, of Stirling and built by John Steel, probably as an investment, in 1896. Steel was a very well-known figure in […]
Home Farm is situated on the Cardross Estate near Port of Menteith. In 1929, estate owner, Brigadier General Sir Norman Orr Ewing, submitted plans to Perth & Kinross Joint County […]
In 1911, North British Railway were granted permission to build an Agents House at Killearn Railway Station. The house is a reminder of the old Glasgow to Aberfoyle railway line […]
The Stirling Dean of Guild Collection has a number of sets of plans drawn by the idiosyncratic Stirling Architect, John Allan. The plans held show the variety of styles that […]
Stirling Council Archives holds a small collection of Blair Drummond records deposited in the 1970s (PD17). The collection includes two pamphlets written by William Halfpenny, ‘Six New Designs for Convenient […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
