McAree Brothers, 55 – 59 King Street, a Stirling Institution
McAree Brothers have had a shop at numbers 55 to 59 King Street since 1893 and are a well-loved Stirling landmark. William, David and John McAree set up their first […]
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The Bridge Clock at the Customs Roundabout – Gifted to Stirling, 1910
We begin Scotland’s Year of Architecture, Innovation and Design, 2016, with a Document of the Month from the Stirling Burgh Dean of Guild collection. In January 1910, Stirling’s Provost, David […]
Christmas Countdown: Christmas Cards from the Front, 1915
In the records of the Whinwell Children’s Home, held at the Archives, there is an album of cards that the founder of the home, Miss Croall, compiled. In it are […]
Christmas Countdown: Stirling in snow, c. 1988
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
Christmas Countdown: Stirling Observer Christmas Annuals
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 […]
Christmas Countdown: The Old Bridge in Stirling under snow
In the run up to Christmas, we will posting a few of the unqiue Christmas related records within Stirling Archives. First up is a picture of The Old Bridge in […]
An address to the Eastern District of Stirlingshire: A response to the threat of invasion by Napoleon Bonaparte of Stirlingshire
‘Great GOD!!! Shall the fair land of Caledonia be in reality contaminated by the sacrilegious feet of Frenchman?” Within the Stirling Council Archives Murray of Polmaise collection, there is a […]
Oath of Allegiance to the Crown, 1734
This paper surviving from the 18th century gives a unique insight into the voting system before the reforms of 1832, anxieties relating to the Jacobites on the part of the […]
Disorder in the Kirk of the Holy Rude, Stirling, 1597
In this extract from the earliest surviving Kirk Session minutes for the Stirling area we can gain a glimpse of the often rather undisciplined behaviour of our forebears. First, in […]
Proposed Iron Hospital – Western District of Stirling
Our document of the month for October is a bit of a mystery. It is the plan of a proposed iron hospital to be constructed at the direction of the […]