Viola Stirling’s Nature Diary: 3rd August 1922
Viola’s hunting plans are ruined by a gang of local birds making a racket in this entry from August 1922. Viola is out stalking rabbits but her attempts to shoot […]
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Viola Stirling’s Nature Diary: 31st July 1922
It is the height of summer and Viola is taking advantage of the light nights, being out walking at 10.00 in the evening at Gartinstarry, quite a long way from […]
Viola Stirling’s Nature Diary: 28 Jul 1922
Viola’s diary entries for July continue to be written from Gartinstarry, where it appears she is spending much of her summer holidays. She is out on a summer’s evening and […]
‘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 […]
Viola Stirling’s Nature Diary: 20th – 22nd April 1922
As Viola grows older, she makes fewer entries in her dairy and there are larger gaps between entries. This probably reflects a busier life with school work and friendships taking […]
Viola Stirling’s Nature Diary: 12 Apr 1922
Viola is out and about on another spring day and spots a Goldcrest and a Firecrest. These birds are cousins of each other but the Firecrest is much rarer. She […]
Viola Stirling’s Nature Diary: 31 Dec 1921
Viola’s final entry for the year 1921 is very short and concerns a hedgehog. She is at Gartinstarry again, which is just west of Buchlyvie and consists of farmland and […]
Viola Stirling’s Nature Diary: 30th December 1921
At the end of another year, Viola is reflecting on her diary entries and makes a note of two things she had seen in 1921 that she neglected to put […]
Viola Stirling’s Nature Diary: 20 Dec 1921
It’s December and Viola is writing about her sightings of flocks of geese from the train into Stirling. Her previous diary entry from a few days earlier was written from […]
Viola Stirling’s Nature Diary: 15 Oct & 20 Nov 1921
Viola’s last diary entries were written in the Highlands of Scotland in August. The next diary jumps ahead to autumn weekends in Harrogate, Yorkshire. Viola went to a boarding school […]