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Crofts
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Scottish Power
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Blundell Rules Limited (BRL)
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Blundell Rules Limited (B.R.L.) was a British manufacturer of slide rules in Luton, England. BRL originated as an effort to create ongoing post-war work for a machine shop created during WW2. The computer produced by BRL was distributed by the Royal Observer Corps during the Cold War as part of the equipment to detect the position and power of nuclear explosions.
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Falkirk Power Station
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Scottish Central Electric Power Co
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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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Fife Tramway, Power & Light Company
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Bought Falkirk and District Tramway in 1920. Company was allied to Balfour Beatty.
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James Sim
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Power Station Worker
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Alan Howie?
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Power Station Worker
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Lynden Macassey
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Lund, P Humphries & Co Ltd
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C A Fell
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Bell, W & W M
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H Dighton Pearson
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Architect
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Thomas Scott Blackadder
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Son of Thomas Blackadder Jr. He was the CEO of Diamond Power Speciality Ltd between 1963-1994.
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Holst, Messrs & Co
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Dora Bamforth
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Daughter of Thomas Bamforth and Sarah Ann Eyre or Bamforth and power of attorney over her mother's affairs.
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Falkirk Burgh Feuars
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The Feuars of Falkirk derived their formal existence from an action for the division of the commonty of Falkirk muir brought by William Forbes of Callendar against a group of named individuals, described as feuars of Falkirk, in which there was a decree pronounced by the Court of Session on 19 December 1807. During the case the feuars claimed to have the right to cast feal and divot and other rights (including quarrying stone) in Falkirk muir. The decree granted them ten acres or so of the muir to be possessed as common property by the feuars and proprietors of lands and houses in and about Falkirk; another 20 acres of the muir were to be obtained by them in 1809 and thereafter managed by them; an acre of land in the burgh was to be made the market place and also managed by them; and the feuars obtained the right to levy duties and customs in Falkirk and apply the profits for the common good. The Feuars collected feus from 1807. They were responsible for establishing the new market. In the 1850s, after criticism in the 'Falkirk Herald', they began to make improvements in the town but, following a court case over the extent of their control, they lost the right to levy dues and their powers were gradually replaced by those of the Town Council. The Falkirk Police and Improvement Act 1859 (22 & 23 Vict., ch.cxxiii) withdrew the power to levy dues from the Feuars and granted that power to the Improvement Commissioners. The Feuars still had some authority, most notably the administration of their buildings and public lands. They built a new corn exchange in 1858 and replaced this in 1879 with a town hall. The Falkirk Corporation Act 1890 (53 & 54 Vict., ch.xiv) transferred all of the Feuars' remaining powers and property to Falkirk Town Council.
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National Electric Const Co
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National Electric Const. Co., 3 Laurence Pountney Hill Ltd., London E.C.
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Falkirk Corporation Electricity Department
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According to the Third Statistical Account, "In 1900 Falkirk had four generating plants for supplying private consumers with electricity. In 1903 Falkirk town council promoted an order granting them power to provide their own electricity for the burgh. At about the same time the Scottish Central Electric Power Company was formed to provide electricity in the county of Stirling. The Falkirk undertaking was mainly concerned in the first instance with providing electricity for lighting, but later the demand for power as well as for light grew until in the year 1914 the output reached 1.000,000 units. Development was very rapid during the last few years in which the undertaking was operated by the town council, and the output for the year ending May 1948 was over 70.000,000 units, or seventy times that of 1914. At this time electricity in Falkirk was the cheapest in Scotland. Under the 1947 Electricity Supply Act, electricity was nationalised and put under the care of the British Electricity Authority." Under the Electricity Supply Act, 1926, Falkirk applied to the Electricity Commissioners for approval for an extension of the generating station. The Scottish Central Electricity Board objected and a protracted legal dispute led to the Scottish Central Electricity Board supplying Falkirk with the required additional electricity. The difficulty for Falkirk was the loss in revenues from the electricity rates.
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