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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Stirling Council Archives will be closed on the following dates: Fri 25 March – Good Friday public holiday Mon 28 March – Easter Monday public holiday The Archives will reopen […]
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 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 […]
Polish troops started coming to Scotland in 1940 to help Britain during World War II. They helped defend Scotland’s eastern coast and were responsible for our armoured trains. They also […]
Stirling Council Archives holds the building plans for the proposed construction of Aberfoyle Parish Church Hall. The Architects who drew up in the plans, c.1925, were Bell & Harvey of […]
