Stirling
Stirling maps (1 available)
Map of Stirlingshire
Beautifully hand-drawn and coloured, dating from around 1840
See this old map of Stirlingshire
Stirling books (2 available)
- 8 photos on Stirling appear in 2 Frith books - View photos of Stirling
- Read extracts and see photos from these books on Stirling and Stirlingshire
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Stirlingshire memories
miners
seems likea "million" years ago, but I was ( 6 yrs ) old and remember at holiday fridays,standing with a few other kids outside the pit-baths at the devon pit, asking miners if we could take their bags "pit clothes" home for them, and get a tip...
thrupenny bit, was a lot back then.
A memory of Fishcross contributed by charlie Bradley
Doune
I lived in Surrey but used to travel to Doune to visit Margaret & George Paterson who owned Watston Farm in Doune. Living in a city I loved going up to the farm for holidays and had my last visit to them in 1973 when I came over from Australia with my husband, son and daughter (where I moved to in 1963). I am visiting Scotland again in September 08 and look forward to revisiting Doune, Kippen and Stirling where I have happy memories of great holidays. Bette Schoots (nee Miller).
A memory of Doune contributed by Bette Schoots
Summerford [boys' paradise]
I was born at Maryfield 25 Feb 1941, a screaming, greetin 10 pounder. The family moved to Summerford the next year. As I got older I began to realize I had landed in boys' paradise, so many things to do and so much to explore. We swam in the Forth and Clyde Canal [when the oil was thin enough], fished for pike, perch and dace in the Union Canal. We climbed huge chestnut and beech trees, ran wild on the Summerford, Greenbank and Red Hills [really they were spoil heaps from the many factories that operated and used to operate in the area]. The Red and Summerford Hills were overgrown with birch and willow where we built hideouts and fought battles ...read more here
A memory of Camelon contributed by albert gray
A Holiday of note
I can't pinpoint the year exactly, but it was definitely a year or two before 1953 which was the year I left the UK. I and three friends, student nurses at a hospital in Essex, decided on a holiday in Scotland. We chose Dollarbeg as our base hotel and toured round the whole area, walking in the surrounding countryside and taking bus tours from Stirling - the Dukes Pass tour perhaps being the most memorable, the scenery magnificent and equal to any the world over. We travelled by train from London to Edinburgh and then on to Dollar. The picture even brings back memories of that train trip when to our horror one girl developed a major allergy - her face ...read more here
A memory of Dollar contributed by Thelma Hurly
Extracts From Stirling & Stirlingshire books
It was from the southern slope of Abbey Craig that Wallace launched his attack against the Earl of Surrey’s troops as they attempted to cross the narrow wooden bridge over the Forth. To save time, and money, Hugh de Cressingham, Edward I’s Treasurer, had stopped Surrey exploiting a ford that would have allowed him to bring his heavy horse across the river and hit Wallace in the flank. Instead, the horse struggled to get over the bridge and deploy in line on the marshy ground on the other side. The English were cut to pieces. Surrey fled the field; the corrupt and unlikeable Cressingham knew how to die, and fought until he was cut down. It is said that his skin was flayed from his body, and that some of it was used to make a sword belt for Wallace.
An extract from from"Scottish Castles".
Bruce’s heart was carried on a crusade against the Moors of Granada by Sir James Douglas. Cut off from all support, Sir James threw Bruce’s heart into the ranks of the enemy and he and his followers charged in after it. It is said that Bruce’s heart was eventually returned to Scotland; it may be the mummified one interred at Melrose Abbey.
An extract from from"Scottish Castles".
To the left of the gatehouse can be seen the royal palace of James V, which abuts James IV’s Prince’s Tower. During the 1530s James V spent a large amount of money refurbishing Stirling as well as building a new palace. The design is thought to be French-influenced; several of the king’s masons were of French origin, and two were Dutch.
An extract from from"Scottish Castles".
Stirling Castle, sited on a precipitous hill 420 feet high, has been intimately bound up with the fortunes of Scotland from the 12th century until the union of the crowns in 1603. It was repeatedly besieged in the early wars of Scottish independence, and was subsequently enlarged by James II, James IV and James V.
An extract from from"50 Classics - Castles".
Stirling was to change hands a number of times during the Wars of Independence. In 1299 Edward I failed to relieve the garrison besieged by John Comyn, Lord of Badenoch and Bishop Lamberton of St Andrews. The Constable, John Sampson, was eventually forced to surrender.
An extract from from"Scottish Castles".