‘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 […]
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Viola Stirling’s Nature Diary: 21st September 1919
This entry for 21st September finds Viola at North Third Reservoir. She sees a grey heron. Then hares that are changing colour for the winter season. Mountain hares gradually turn […]
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 […]
The Christie Memorial Clock in Snow, 1996
Stirling Council Archives staff would like to wish everyone a very Merry Christmas and all good things for 2017. We hope to see you in the New Year! +36
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 Albion and St Ninian’s Thistle, Football Stadiums, 1909 – 1973
St Ninian’s had its own football team, St Ninian’s Thistle F.C., known in their time as ‘The Jags’ just as Partick are today. They were formed in 1897 and played […]
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 […]
John Allan, Architect, and his Stirling buildings, 1893 – 1911
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 […]
Local Authority Housing in Stirling 1925 – 1954
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 […]
From Gothic to Modernist, Two Stirling Churches, 1904 and 1970
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 […]