Photographs

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Photos of Cornton

Cornton Foundry 1971 with the Gasometer in the background.

This is James Davie and Sons Cornton Foundry Foundry 1900.

This photograph would have been taken around 1900 – 1910. It shows the Cabinetmakers’ premises which became a Confectionery Factory which burned down in 1911.

The source of this photograph says that Limmer and Trinidad operated out of Bridgehaugh and that the photograph dates to 1926. Subsequent local knowledge places Limmer and Trinidad on the other side of the railway in the Rugby Club Grounds (Still technically Bridgehaugh). The brick building on the left just through the tunnel was part of that operation.

This 1943 Ordnance Survey Map shows the location of the “Asphalt Works”

Unknown contributor posting his father’s car outside their home at Strahtmore Crescent.

Piggery building only just in the picture left and the caravan park beyond.

Ancient boat found in river Forth 1874 London News.

The Bridge of Allan Bus

Aerial Photograph from the South c. 1950s before the Primary School was built

The level Crossing with signal box. Reference: SC 784899

The following is a copy of the script accompanying this photograph in the Canmore Website. It says that it “…shows the signal box and level crossing from the West…” The Cornton Signal box was on the western side of the track so this cannot be “from the West”. We are to presume that someone made a typo!

“Scope and content: Signal box and level crossing, Cornton Road, Bridge of Allan, Stirling. This shows the signal box and level crossing from the West. The box is of a standard Caledonian Railway Central Division type, and the level crossing gates are similarly of a standard type. The gates are operated by turning a handwheel in the box, which also controls railway signals protecting the crossing. Resignalling of this route in the 1980s led to the elimination of this box, and the replacement of the crossing gates in this view by remotely-operated barriers. This was in 1971 a very typical installation. This signal box controlled a level crossing taking the B823 road over the former Scottish Central Railway from Gartsherrie to Perth, which opened in 1848, and was part of the trunk line from Carlisle to Aberdeen, completed in 1850. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.”

The signal box obscures the view of the two storey dwelling that was built along with the Pig Industry Development Station but you can still see the roofs of the two blocks of semi detached bungalows complete with chimneys that have long since gone.

Photograph of a model diorama of the Corntonvale Colony which was on display at the Empire Exhibition in Glasgow in 1938

Friar Street 12th September 1987 Mile of Pennies

Back Row: –

^{Mr G. Cairns, Fiona Wallace, Desi, Kola, Brian Donald, Scott Fleming, Barry Quinn Farris Rama, Steven McLean.}
Front Row: –

^{Cllr. Ian Wyles, Barry Kerr, James Clark, Stewart McAllister, Andrew Craig, Jamie McDonald, Paul Holden, Victor Cichosz}

^{Photograph Credit Whyler Photos.}

Cornton and the Old Bridge from the South again showing the Cabinet Makers/ Confectionery Works

Carving immediately above the Main Entrance of the block of flats at Brighae.

Stylised signature of John Allan the Architect of Brighae. Carving at eaves level of Brighae above the main entrance

Carved slate plaques on the wall at Bridgehaugh Park.

These are the Basilisks that grace the tops of two stone pillars at Bridgehaugh. They, along with the slate plaques and many other written carving on the pavings throughout Stirling were commissioned by Stirling Council of the Sculptor Gillian Forbes. The coping stones upon which they are mounted are, with two notable exceptions, adorned with the inscribed names of native species of Flora as follows: –