Stirling’s Agricultural Shows
Agricultural shows were formed throughout Scotland as a way to spread knowledge about new farming equipment and techniques, and Stirling was no different. Initially formed as societies to discuss technological […]
Agricultural shows were formed throughout Scotland as a way to spread knowledge about new farming equipment and techniques, and Stirling was no different. Initially formed as societies to discuss technological […]
On his death in 1909, the Stirling Observer remarked that Robert MacLuckie was one Stirling’s ‘best known men’, ‘one of the most likeable of gentlemen’ and an ‘excellent type of […]
May’s Document of the Month looks at the records of local Volunteer Militias held at the Council Archives. The raising of a militia force in Scotland was outlawed by statute […]
Post by James Marshall, Archives Volunteer This mid-19th century map of the Bridge of Allan and Sunnylaw areas immediately grabs any onlooker with its pageantry and detail. Dated to around […]
For our final post to celebrate the 900th anniversary of the Royal Burgh of Stirling, we are taking a look at the background to one of our most used, and […]
On 6th February 1979, curlers were on alert as news outlets in Scotland announced that the Grand Match was to take place the following morning. The winter had been particularly […]
The Document of the Month for January 2025 celebrates the people of the Stirling area. There is a tendency to focus on notable events when commemorating historical anniversaries, and these […]
Ice skating was a common winter pastime in Victorian Stirling. Residents, however, lamented that the town did not have its own skating pond. A letter in the Stirling Observer in […]
The Stirling merchants’ guild, known as the Stirling Guildry, has very ancient origins. It is known to have been in existence in the early twelfth century, although it did not […]
On 5th April 1824, Stirling Town Council authorised its office-bearers to ‘examine the accounts relative to the escape of Campbell and other prisoners from the jail’. A reward was offered […]