Stirling Council Archives holds a collection (PD96) of records from 1st Stirlingshire Troop of Scouts, including bound volumes of The Scout magazine. The December 1908 edition includes a useful article […]
Our Christmas Countdown record today is a letter from Sir John Murray to William Murray found in the Murray of Polmaise collection (PD189). From 1807-1813, Murray commanded several forces during […]
These cards were deposited with the Archives within photograph albums relating to a local family by the name of Nicol. In 1942, young Arthur Nicol was fighting in the Middle […]
It doesn’t look like there will be any chance of a white Christmas this year. This photograph from the Ken MacKay Collection, however, shows a snowy Stirling c. 1988. +5
This entry from the St Ninans Weaver Row Primary School logbook from December 1919 gives details of the first time children at the school received anything special for Christmas. Prior […]
They don’t do curling like this anymore! Our next Christmas Countdown record is a glass plate photograph of a game of Curling in the Easter Meadows, Callander, c. 1895, taken […]
From 1911 to 1969 the Stirling Observer produced an annual round-up of local news and events at the end of the year in December. These Christmas Annuals feature beautifully designed […]
In December 1945, a memorandum was circulated by the Scottish Education Department to all the local authorities in Scotland requesting temporary assistance by school pupils to help deliver the Christmas […]
14 December 1981: the Education Department of Central Regional Council held a Christmas Party for Travellers’ children in Clackmannan Town Hall. The photo below includes Councillor Michael Kelly, Councillor John […]
William Steel was Provost of Bridge of Allan and a keen photographer. Not only did he take many beautiful and accomplished pictires of the Bridge of Allan area, he also […]
