spw020320 SCOTLAND (1928). Falkirk Iron Co. Works, Bankside Road, Falkirk. An oblique aerial photograph taken facing north-west.

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Title [SPW020320] Falkirk Iron Co. Works, Bankside Road, Falkirk. An oblique aerial photograph taken facing north-west.
Reference SPW020320
Date 1928
Link Canmore Collection item 1259349
Place name
Parish FALKIRK
District FALKIRK
Country SCOTLAND
Easting / Northing 289005, 681152
Longitude / Latitude -3.7804454177863, 56.01047771427
National Grid Reference NS890812

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Original Merchiston Park football ground stood here. Used by East Stirlingshire 1882-c1907. The railway line was opened through here in 1908, when ESFC were playing at the new Merchiston Park behind the Burnbank Foundry just to the south.

gBr
Sunday 15th of November 2015 12:11:45 AM
Formerly Merchiston Park II, East Strirlingshire FC 1908-21. Replaced ground of same name a little to the north which made way for the Bainsford Branch railway, otherwise known as the Orchardhall branch, a joint North British/Caledonian Railway scheme to allow increasing volume of traffic bound for Grangemouth Docks to bypass Grahamston station. This section of the branch opened in 1908 and closed in 1968. The A9 Ring Road now uses the old rail route at this point.

gBr
Sunday 15th of November 2015 12:06:26 AM
Kersehill house

buchanan
Saturday 7th of December 2013 01:44:28 PM
Dawson Public Park

buchanan
Wednesday 29th of May 2013 11:14:33 PM
Mungal Foundry

buchanan
Wednesday 29th of May 2013 11:13:04 PM
Dalderse Avenue

buchanan
Monday 7th of January 2013 09:54:30 PM
Northerner School

buchanan
Monday 7th of January 2013 09:53:34 PM
Main Street Bainsford

buchanan
Monday 7th of January 2013 09:17:06 PM
Bainsford Bridge

buchanan
Monday 7th of January 2013 09:16:05 PM
Forth & Clyde Canel

buchanan
Monday 7th of January 2013 09:13:29 PM
Falkirk Foundry

buchanan
Monday 7th of January 2013 09:11:02 PM
My father Hugh Cameron worked at the Falkirk Foundry as a moulder in the 1930's when our family lived at 10 Mungalend Road. My uncle George (Geordie) and my grandfather William McTear also worked there. The Red Lion pub (owned at that time by Charlie Mullroy) was a regular watering hole for the moulders - it's still there on the corner of Bankside at the bridge, but no longer a pub.

Alex Cameron
Sunday 2nd of March 2014 04:57:03 PM
Yes, my father George Bain McTear did work with his father and brother (Willy) at the iron works.

Carole McTear
Tuesday 3rd of March 2015 01:32:20 AM

buchanan
Monday 24th of December 2012 11:22:23 PM
The footballer Willie Ormond of Stenhousemuir and Hibernian fame was brought up at Persia Row. Willie was two years younger than me. I lived with my family at the corner of Foundry Street at 231 Carron Road.

Alex Cameron
Sunday 2nd of March 2014 05:09:44 PM
Bainsford Primary School

buchanan
Monday 24th of December 2012 11:20:28 PM
Bainsford Parish Church

Domino
Sunday 8th of July 2012 10:36:38 AM