Stirling in the Dark Ages – the legend of the Wolf
If you pay close enough attention you can find ferocious wolves all over Stirling…no don’t worry this is not a rewilding project gone amok, but rather one of our proud […]
Stirling Burgh
Stirling and the Legend of King Arthur
Stirling Castle, built originally in the early twelfth century (although the site has is likely to have been a stronghold since the iron age or earlier), and standing in its […]
The Origin of Stirling as a place name – what does Stirling mean?
Over the five days of the Off The Page Book Festival, this blog will be featuring posts under the heading Myth Busters, written by Council Archaeologist Murray Cook and Council […]
The Mystery of the Missing Volumes – Stirling Burgh Records, 1552
This month’s Document of the Month concerns a mystery relating to the Archives… At the back of the second volume of records for the Burgh of Stirling that we have […]
‘Beware The Fly!’ Public Health Information Poster, Stirling Burgh, 1927
Our document of the month for September is a poster found in one of the Stirling Burgh Town Clerk’s files. This poster was issued by Stirling Burgh’s Sanitary Inspector in […]
Scrapbook of John Clink, Stirling Burgh Town Clerk
Our ‘Document of the Month’ for March is a fantastic recent donation to Stirling Council Archives. It is the scrapbook of John Clink, Stirling Town Clerk from 1938 – 1949. […]
Plans of Allan Park Church, Stirling, April 1866
These beautiful plans of this well-known Stirling Church have just been handed in to the Archives to join the written records of the Church that we already hold here. Allan […]
Stirling Area Shops 1894 – 1950
‘Tis the season to be shopping! A look at some of the lovely plans of shop buildings that we have for the Stirling area at the Archives. Macaree Brothers, King […]
Stirling’s Swimming Pools, 1930 and 1975
This splendid red brick swimming pool at Edward Road, Riverside, was designed by Alexander Nisbet Malcolm, the Architect to Stirling Education Authority and the man who designed the nearby Riverside […]
Flats at Glebe Crescent and Dumbarton Road built by John Steel, Bailie and Dean of Guild of Stirling, 1896.
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 […]