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Hurst, Gunson, Cooper, Taber Ltd
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Rudolf Karel
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Karel, who had studied with Dvorak, was Professor of Composition at the Prague Conservatory. He became a member of the Czech Resistance during the Second World War and was arrested by the Gestapo in 1943. In 1945 he was sent to Theresienstadt concentration camp. While he was in prison he composed a children’s opera on toilet paper which was then smuggled out of the prison. He died of dysentery in the camp in 1945.
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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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Scottish Co-Operative Wholesale Society Ltd
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The SCWS was formed in 1868 and merged with the Co-operative Wholesale Society (CWS) in 1973, known as the Co-operative Group (CWS) Ltd since 2001.
Locally, SCWS ran Grangemouth Soap Works which was the largest soap works in Scotland. Grangemouth Soapworks was set up in 1897, making hard and soft soaps, toilet soaps and glycerine. The factory was founded by SCWS because Leverhulme would not supply the Co-op with soap if a dividend were paid on it. Grangemouth was chosen as the site because of proximity to port and rail facilities, especially imports at Tallour from New Zealand and foreign oils, such as coconut oils. (source: verbal, donor of P14165) The factory was closed in 1964 (source : Porteous) Cooperatives began in 18th century Britain when members pooled their income to buy materials and food. The earliest record date from March 14 1761, when a group of weavers in Fenwick, Ayrshire, made a secret agreement to work together. The organised Co-operative movement traces its root to 1844, when mill workers in north-west England set up the Rochdale Equitable Pioneers Society and devised eight principles of cooperation: open membership; democratic control; distributing profits to members in proportion to their spending; paying small amounts of interest on capital; political and religious neutrality; cash trading, no credit; promotion of education; and quality goods and services. |
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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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Moscardini Brothers
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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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