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Diamond Carry Out Restaurant
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William Kirkwood
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William Kirkwood was a Publican and owned the Railway Hotel, from 1876, which was at the corner of Grahams Rd and Macfarlane Crescent. His business became affected as a consequence of the Falkirk and District Tramways Scottish Office Provisional Order to lay tramways and the decision of the North British Railway to construct an overbridge (Grahamston Bridge) in the line of Grahams Rd and Vicars St, Grahamston to carry the street over the railway, which resulted in his hotel having to be knocked down and rebuilt.
He was married to Jane Shanks and their children were John Arthur Kirkwood, Marion Arthur Kirkwood or Sprout, William David Kirkwood (Spirit Merchant, Grahams Rd), Jeanie Cullen Kirkwood and Robert (1) Arthur Kirkwood. |
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Blair Lodge School
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Blairlodge School, Polmont (Stirlingshire) opened about 1836, with a small number of pupils, as a private boarding academy for boys, run by Mr Johnstone of Meadowbank. Later in the 19th century the school was run by Mr Hyslop, assisted by his son-in-law, Dr Maurice Paterson, of Moray House Training College, Edinburgh, whose occupancy lasted for many years. At its peak shortly afterwards numbers reached at least 150 pupils. New buildings were constructed by a subsequent owner, Mr Cooke Gray, who catered for about 400 scholars, but his health declined and so did the school. There were many scholars from South Africa, and on the outbreak of the Boer War a number of the pupils left. After Mr Cooke Gray died the trustees tried to carry on the school under Mr Matthews' management, but the venture did not prove successful. The school closed in 1904, and by 1911 the property had become a borstal.
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George Rankine
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George Rankine was one of the four sons of John Rankine of Bantaskin and grandson of John Rankine of Barns. By 1817 he lived in London and at his death in 1850 he had been living at Havening Grange, Essex. His will was challenged by his elder brother John as it left heritable property to his other surviving brother, Robert. George's will was deficient in form to carry heritable property in Scotland with the result that Robert did not receive it and John, as the eldest brother, did.
George had two sons, William Henry Rankine and James Anderson Rankine. William was an engineer, working first in Falkirk, then at the Naval dockyard in Chatham and then returning to Falkirk. He died in 1912 leaving a liferent to his wife Helen Dobbie or Rankine. When she died in 1922 the remaining Falkirk property was sold by the fiar, Col Robert Rankine (Australian Army) of Dunmore, St Kilda, Melbourne. |
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Cochrane & French
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John Heeps
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David Russell
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F Milson Dixon
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Architect
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William Rose Primrose
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Cowan, Alexander & Sons
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Elspie
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The Dr Elspie Trust owned property in Weir St, Falkirk
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George Inglis
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Member of Falkirk Erskine Church and Sabbath School Superintendent.
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Peter McLean
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Architect
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Bradley Craven Ltd
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Company supplied local firms with equipment. Incorporated as Bradley and Craven Ltd (ie became a limited company) on 22 July 1974 and dissolved 29 Feb 2000.
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McLean & Grant
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W Morrison
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Architect
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Scottish Gas Board
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Mickel, R & Co
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Hartmann
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Hartmann's of London or F Hartmann produced postcards between c. 1902 and 1911. The company introduced the divided back c 1907. [Source: Internet - Edinburgh Photos & Hertfordshire Genealogy: (22/1/07) www.hertfordshire-genealogy.co.uk/data/postcards/publisher-hartmann.htm ]
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Thomas Smith
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