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Cumbernauld Parish Church
This congregation had its origins as a chapel of ease of Kirkintilloch Parish from the 12th or 13th century. In the 1620s the area was part of Lenzie Parish and following an unsuccessful application by the Earl of Wigton to erect a church on his land at Cumbernauld, his chaplain held services in Cubernauld Castle. Lenzie was then divided into Easter Lenzie (Cumbernauld) and Wester Lenzie (Kirkintilloch) and the Cumbernauld congregation repaired the original medieval chapel of ease which was used as their church building from 1659. A portion of Cumbernauld parish was removed in 1883 to form part of the quoad sacra parish of Condorrat. In 1929 the congregation became known as Cumbernauld - St Ninian's, with the old United Free Church becoming Cumbernauld - St Andrew's. In 1952 it was united with Cumbernauld St Andrew’s and the newly united church took the name Cumbernauld Parish Church (later known as Cumbernauld Old). The Church of Scotland kirk session for Cumbernauld sat within the Presbytery of Glasgow until 1929, when it was transferred to the Presbytery of Linlithgow and Falkirk. In 1976 it became part of the Presbytery of Falkirk.
Assessor for Central Scotland
The Assessor for Central Scotland was set up in 1996 following local government re-organisation. Under the Local Government (Scotland) etc 1994, local authorities are required to appoint an assessor for valuation purposes. Stirling, Falkirk and Clackmannan all appointed the previous Central Region Assessor to continue the same function. The Assessor is also responsible for compiling the electoral roll for the Falkirk Council area. Valuation Rolls were first compiled in 1855 as a result of the Lands Valuation (Scotland) Act 1854. Valuation Rolls were produced annually from 1855 to 1988. Separate rolls were compiled for burghs and for counties. Parochial boards also compiled assessment rolls. They were used to establish the rateable value of property which provided the basis for local taxation and assessments on local services. Following local government re-organisation, valuation rolls became the responsibility of Regional Councils. The valuation system was abolished in 1989 and replaced by the Community Charge. For valuation rolls prior to 1974 see the appropriate Burgh or Parish.
Hall, James
James Hall started his coal merchant's business in 1906 with one horse-drawn lorry and two carts. Coal was collected from Letham, Garibaldi and Carnock Pits and delivered in the Airth area for sale at 12 to 14/- a ton. In 1918 an Overland car was put into use for hire. The following year Halls purchased their first motor lorry - a model T Ford - for the coal trade. Two ex-army lorries were also bought and used for general haulage and road work. This left only two horses. In the 1920s Halls started the first bus service from Airth to Airth Station, South Alloa ferry and the Skinflats Co-op. At the weekends people were taken to such places as the Falkirk theatres. The first transport for the conveyance of the public was a simple home-made shed-like structure placed on the back of a lorry with wooden seats along either side. As the business grew a large garage-shed was built to house the vehicles - there were 14 in use for the coal business alone. In 1928 a petrol pump was installed for the firm's own use. In the mid 1960s the company was taken over by Jim Turnbull, the son of a local farmer.
Central Regional Council. Industrial Development
Cockburn, M & Co Ltd
Founded by Malcolm and Andrew Cockburn and Andrew Maclaren (London merchant)in 1864 (the brothers were previously partners in Burnbank Co). Andrew Maclaren was bought out in 1866 and Andrew Cockburn resigned in 1871.

In 1905 Gowanbank Iron Works was formed into a limited company, with Malcolm Cockburn as chairman, and sons Malcolm and Norman as directors. In 1922 Light Castings Ltd was formed, consisting of McDowall Stevens; Cockburn, Planet and Coalbrookdale. In 1929 the Light Castings group joined other foundries to form Allied Ironfounders and works were rationalised. Cockburn concentrated on making baths. In 1961 all the companies in Allied were dissolved and each became a subsidiary of Allied Ironfounders. Allied was taken over by Glynwed and the Cockburn works closed in 1977.

The first foundry was built in Grahamston (the area which was previously used by Gowanbank Brick & Tile Co). The second foundry was set up in 1875 at Springfield, near Grahamston station. The company had warehouses in London, Glasgow & Edinburgh.

Makers of Enamelled Fireplaces and Mantel Registers. Also makers of Baths with enamelled Pressed Steel Tip-up Basin in aluminium frame, hinged to rest against wall when bath was in use. c1926.
Larbert Parish School Board
School Boards were set up by the Education (Scotland) Act 1872 which gave them a statutory duty to provide education for all children between the ages of 5 and 13 (increased to age 14 in 1901). The boards had an elected membership made up of owners and occupiers of property of the value of £4 or over. They were responsible for the building and maintenance of schools, staffing and attendance of pupils. They were overseen by the Scottish Board of Education. School boards were abolished under the Education (Scotland) Act, 1918 and replaced with school management committees. From 1873 to 1919 schools were managed by Parish School Boards . From 1919 to 1930 these were replaced by School Management Committees and overseen by the Education Authority for the area. In 1930 County Councils were required to set up Education Committees which replaced the Education Authorities.

Larbert Parish School was in existence by 1631. The school was the responsibility of the heritors and was supervised by the parish minister. A new schoolroom was built in 1814 but this was soon considered insufficient and was replaced by another building c 1826 ( later John McNicol's confectionery factory). The school became known as Larbert Public School in 1873 when Larbert School Board took over responsibility.
941.3186 The History of Larbert High School 1886-1986, G Russell MacGillivray pp.10-13
SMT Co Ltd
Scottish Motor Traction Co Ltd was founded in Edinburgh in 1905 and ran buses across the central belt of Scotland.

Following legislation, which allowed railway companies to invest in bus operators, the LNER and LMSR took a major stake in SMT in 1929. At nationalisation in 1949, the company became part of Scottish Omnibuses Ltd.

Subsidiary companies included area operational companies including Central SMT in Lanarkshire and Western SMT, whilst the east of Scotland services remained as SMT until the early 1960s, when the fleet name "Eastern Scottish" was adopted.

In 1962 the SMT operations became part of the state-owned Scottish Bus Group in 1962; this later became the Scottish Transport Group in 1969 following the addition of ferry services.

The Transport Act 1985 led to the deregulation of bus services across the UK, followed by privatisation of the bus-operating Scottish Transport Group subsidiaries. Western Scottish (formerly Western SMT) was sold to its local management in 1991, and was bought out by the Stagecoach Group in 1994, which renamed it Stagecoach West Scotland. Eastern Scottish briefly reverted to its former name SMT. It was bought out by the First Group, who rebranded it First Edinburgh.

Dryburgh Abbey Hotel was owned by SMT..

The garage in Falkirk had an extensive range of used cars, quality tested and also had self-drive hire cars. - Vauxhall make.
Falkirk Iron Co
Falkirk Iron Co was established in 1819 as a Joint Stock Company. The company had its origins in the Falkirk Foundry Co which was set up in 1810 by 'by some gentlemen of the area', employing former Carron Company workers as overseers. In 1830, R W Kennard became a co-partner and the company was re-named Ashwell & Kennard until 1849.
Falkirk Iron Company was incorporated in 1912 with the registration number SC008197, and went into liquidation in 1920. [Ref: GB234/BT2/8197] It was re-incorporated in 1920 with the registration number SC011294 adn the name Falkirk Iron Co Ltd. [Ref: GB234BT2/11294]

In 1929 the company became part of Allied Ironfounders. In 1963 the company was dissolved and the foundry became a department of Allied Ironfounders Ltd. Allied Ironfounders was taken over by Glynwed in 1969 and the foundry, Falkirk Iron Works, closed in 1981. H E Hoole & Co became a department of Falkirk Iron Co. Castlelaurie Iron Works was owned by Falkirk Iron Co. T

he Falkirk Iron Co cast stoves, kitchenware, engine parts, pillar-boxes, structural castings, gutters and rones. Inspection for Gas Cookers made at the above premises were sold at the local Gas Showroom , Glebe St, Falkirk. c1926.
Scottish Community Drama Association
Scottish Community Drama Association is a voluntary organisation founded in 1926. It works to promote all aspects of community theatre in Scotland. The SCDA was founded in 1926, after Geoffrey Whitworth, founder and director of the British Drama League in London, received an invitation from the New York Little Theatre Movement to send out the best of British Drama to compete in their annual festival. To select this team the British Drama League initiated a festival of amateur drama. Mr D Glen Mackemmie of the Scottish National Players, then issued an invitation to all British Drama League members in Scotland, to attend a meeting in Glasgow. This meeting appointed an executive committee charged with the organisation of a Scottish Festival in the winter of 1926/27. In the early years the winning team from the Scottish Festival competed in London in the British Final. SCDA run a series of One-Act Play festivals with regional and national competitions. Falkirk High School Former Pupils Drama Club won the national finals in 1930 and 1931; Larbert High School Former Pupils won in 1974, the Tryst Theatre (from Falkirk area) won in 1979, 1982, 1987, 1991, 1995 and 2004, and the Falkirk Players won in 1985. Falkirk Town Hall hosted regional and national finals of the One Act Play Festivals on numerous occasions. The Tryst Theatre also won the Howard de Walden Trophy in 1979 (a UK competition)
Business & Professional Women, Grangemouth Club
BPW Grangemouth club was founded in June 1952 at The Lea Park Hotel, Grangemouth, to meet the needs of business and professional women in the area. The club is part of the wider organisation, BPW International, which was begun in 1930 by Dr. Lena Madeson Phillips, and had its origins in the first international meeting of BPW USA, founded in 1919. BPW Grangemouth closed and merged with Scottish Region in December 2004. The aim of BPW International is to promote equal opportunities for women in economic, civil and political life, free from discrimination. Women are encouraged to realise their responsibilities within the community, in a local, national and international context. The aim of the organisation is to educate members to maintain high standards in business and professional life. Today, BPW International is affiliated with The United Nations, UNICEF and UNESCO. BPW UK was founded in 1938 and shares the aims of BPW International. The main aim of the organisation is to help women achieve their full potential in all aspects of life. It also monitors and acts on issues relevant to women and is a non-political party which lobbies government. BPW UK is a member of the European Women's Lobby and is a founder member of the Women's National Commission. The first Scottish branch was opened in Edinburgh, 1939. Considerable interest surrounded the creation of BPW Grangemouth as clubs already existed in surrounding areas of Falkirk and Larbert. The first meeting attracted 93 founder members and a further 17 joined that evening under President, Mrs E. Reid, and created a record in Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Alexander, W & Sons Ltd
Walter Alexander began running buses in the Falkirk area in 1914. The first Charabanc New Belhaven (convertible to lorry) arrived in the spring of 1913 and another Belhaven (second hand) also convertible to lorry, was acquired in either 1915 or 1916. During the First World War the company was limited to private hires and haulage and a service was run on Saturdays and Sundays between Falkirk and Bonnybridge. Another charabanc, a W.D. Leyland, was introduced to replace one of the Belhaven's in 1919. Walter Alexander took a private party to John O'Groats in the summer of 1919 and it is supposed to be the first charabanc to have arrived there.

The company of W Alexander & Sons Ltd was formed in 1924. The routes expanded to include Stirling-Glasgow in 1925 and Perth - Glasgow in 1926. In 1927 the company acquired Elliott & Begg of Perth.

In 1929 W Alexander & Sons were acquired as a subsidiary of SMT (The Scottish Motor Traction Co) and became the area company for most of the east of Scotland north of the Forth. Other bus companies acquired by SMT as subsidiaries to W Alexander & Sons included The Pitlochry Motor Co, Simpson's & Forresters (based in Fife) and the Scottish General Omnibus Group (based in Falkirk). The Scottish General Omnibus Group included Dunsire of Falkirk, the bus section of Wemyss Tramways, Penman of Bannockburn, the bus section of Dunfermline Tramways, the General Motor Carrying Co of Kirkcaldy and the Northern Omnibus Services of Elgin.

From 1930 to 1949 as a subsidiary of SMT, W Alexander & Sons Ltd acquired its own subsidiaries. These included David Lawson Ltd which had been incorporated in 1923, and was acquired by W Alexander & Sons Ltd in 1936. David Lawson Ltd was re-named Clydeside Omnibuses Ltd in 1961. A & R Graham Ltd was acquired by W Alexander & Sons Ltd in 1938 and integrated with David Lawson Ltd in 1942.

In 1949 SMT was acquired by the British Transport Commission as part of the nationalisation of transport and a new company, Scottish Omnibuses was set up. Prior to this the bodybuilding work was separated out and was sold to a new company, Walter Alexander & Co (Coachbuilders).

In 1961 the British Transport Commission created a new holding company, Scottish Omnibuses Group (Holdings), re-named the Scottish Bus Group in 1963. The subsidiary bus companies were re-structured and as part of this process existing dormant companies were re-used and re-named to avoid creating new companies. W Alexander & Sons Ltd was divided into three companies: W Alexander & Sons (Midland) Ltd (from the dormant company of Wordie & Co), W Alexander & Sons (Fife) Ltd (from W Alexander & Sons Ltd) and W Alexander & Sons (Northern) Ltd (from the dormant company Youngs Express Deliveries (BTC) Ltd). The other member companies in the Scottish Omnibuses Group were Central SMT Co Ltd, Western SMT Co Ltd, Highland Omnibuses Ltd and Scottish Motor Traction Co Ltd.

In recent years, W Alexander & Sons (Midland) was taken over by the First Bus Group and re-named. The registered office of First Bus Ltd is in London. First Bus Ltd was incorporated in 1983 with the registration number 01752801.

[Source: Stewart J Brown. "Alexander's Buses"]
Mungo Buchanan
Mungo Buchanan was an amateur archaeologist and led various excavations of the Antonine Wall and other Roman sites in the Falkirk area.
He was born in 1845 at Busby and moved to Glasgow as a child when his father took a grocer's shop there. On leaving school he became an apprentice carpet designer, but moved to an apprenticeship in architecture. At the age of 21 years he held the position as foreman draughtsman in the Saracen Foundry, Possilpark, Glasgow. Here he would have met Bailie Mitchell and in 1877 Mungo Buchanan took up post as foreman draughtsman in Mitchell's newly established Grahamston Foundry. Four years later he returned to Glasgow to set up business on his own. In 1886 he re-entered service at Grahamston Foundry, leaving in 1893 for the Falkirk Iron Company, with whom he remained until retirement in 1908.
Mungo Buchanan was a corresponding member of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland and a leading member of the teams from that Society that explored Camelon Roman fort in 1899, Castlecary in 1902 and Rough Castle in 1905. At each of these he undertook survey and planning work. He wrote several papers for the Society, including ones on the Camelon cists, Mumrills, Laurieston and Beattock Hill, as well as contributing items to the Falkirk Herald. He was in charge of the archaeological section of the 1911 Glasgow Exhibition. In 1919 he was made curator of the Carnegie Museum in Pittencrieff, Dunfermline - a post he held for only two years due to ill health. He died on 6 June 1923 at his home in 23 Alma Street, Falkirk. His wife predeceased him by 4 years and he left three sons and two daughters, all of whom were married.
William Graham
Architect
George Tennant Grant
Baron Bercott & Associates
Kelvin Construction Co Ltd
William Anderson
William Anderson was an architect based in Bo'ness. His name appears on a number of building warrants for Bo'ness and for the Larbert and Denny area.
Graham Sharp Wilson
Graham Sharp Wilson was the youngest son of Mr Adam Wilson and Jane Cummings Sharp Wilson of 16 Wall Street, Camelon. Born in 1914 and educated at Carmuirs School, then Falkirk High School. Graduated Bachelor of Law at Glasgow University. He joined an Edinburgh law firm and in 1937 joined the RAF Volunteer Reserve. When war broke out he was called up immediately and served in France, covering the evacuation from Dunkirk. He is credited with having shot down a Heinkel. He then served for 9 months in the Libyan campaign. Then on to Greece, Syria and Iraq. He married on 18th October 1941 Miss Isobel Tripney Oswald of 26 Mansionhouse Road. He was awarded the Distinguished Flying Medal in March 1942 and promoted from Flight Sergeant to Warrant Officer (Observer) on 15th May 1942. He went as Observer, with Pilot F/Sgt Sharp, W/OP/AG F/Sgt Mantle, Fitter LAC A.E. Wright. Their aircraft was a Hudson AE548, which flew from Hendon to Portreath, then to Gibraltar, but crashed into the sea, on approach, at 1540 20th May 1942. It dived into the sea, floated for a short time, and Wilson's body was the only one recovered. Rest listed as "Missing, believed killed; cause unknown." He is buried in Gibraltar (North Front) Cemetery plot 2, row C, joint grave 8. 747916 W/O GS Wilson DFM. Graham Sharp Wilson 747916 Sergeant, No 37 Squadron L.G. 4.11.1941. Air Observer. This NCO has taken part in 47 operations of which 14 were done in Blenheim fighters and 33 with No.37 Squadron in Wellingtons. These operations include raids over Germany, France, Belgium, Holland, Libya, Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Iraq and the Dodecanese. By his skill and coolness as a Navigator, he has on many occasions been largely responsible for the safe return of his aircraft in conditions of bad weather. In particular, on the night of 15th April, 1941, while carrying out a raid on German convoys in Kozani area, Greece, his aircraft became shut in a valley with 10/10ths cloud below the mountain tops. It was necessary to fly out of the valley with grave risk of flying into mountains and Sergeant Wilson's coolness and sound judgement were the greatest assistance to his Captain in this difficult manoeuvre. On 2nd May, 1941, and again on 4th May 1941, during daylight operations against Iraqi rebels, Sergeant Wilson's bombing panel was shattered by bullets during the run up to the target. He did not allow this to prevent him from releasing his bombs with satisfactory results. Sergeant Wilson has at all time displayed outstanding courage and devotion to duty and has set the highest example in the squadron. 17th October, 1941. [Tavender, I. 2000, The Distinguished Flying Medal Register for the Second World War with Official Recommendation Details. Vol 2, P.989.]
Falkirk District Council
Falkirk District Council was set up under the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973. District councils in Scotland were established under the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973 (c.65). They were quite distinct from the district councils which had existed from 1930 to 1975. The Act established a two-tier system of local government with nine regional councils and 53 district councils. Three islands councils (Orkney, Shetland and Western Isles) performed the functions of district and regional councils. District councils were elected in 1974 and acted as shadow authorities until May 1975, when they assumed their full powers. Their main responsibilities were district courts (under the District Courts (Scotland) Act 1975, c.20), building control, burial and cremation, cleansing, community centres (shared with the region) conservation areas, countryside (some regional responsibility), development control, environmental health, housing, leisure and recreation, libraries, licensing, local planning, museums and art galleries (with the regional council), parks and tourism

Falkirk District comprised the former burghs of Falkirk, Grangemouth, Bo'ness and Denny & Dunipace, the former Eastern districts and part of the Central districts of Stirlingshire and a small part of the former West Lothian County. The regional authority for the area of Falkirk District Council was Central Regional Council. Falkirk District Council and Central Regional Council were abolished in 1996 and replaced by Falkirk Council (Local Government etc (Scotland) Act 1994, c.39) which assumed most of their powers and functions.

The Committees agreed in July 1974 were Policy & Resources Committee, Finance & Manpower Committee, Planning & Development Committee (including responsibility for planning, architectural service and building control), Housing Committee, Environmental Health Committee, Leisure & Recreation Committee and General Purposes Committee. Additionally there was provision for the Joint Staff Consultative Committee to meet separately with the two categories of Administrative, Professional Technical & Clerical or APT&C staff and with Craft & Manual staff; and for the Joint Liaison Committee to meet with other local authorities.
The Finance & Manpower Committee was re-organised as the Finance Committee and the Manpower & Common Services Committee by 1976. These committees remained in place until April 1992.

New committees were set up in April or May 1992: Performance, Policy & Resources Committee, Environmental Services Committee (with responsibility for environment and leisure & recreation), Personnel Services Committee, Women's & Equal Opportunities Committee, Housing Services Committee and Development Services Committee (with responsibility for planning, building control, property, roads and architectural services).

In 1974, the District Council staff structure was organised into nine departments: Administrative & Legal Services Department (headed by the Chief Executive, along with a Senior Depute Director), Finance Department, Architectural Services Department, Planning Department, Housing Department, Environmental Health Department, Amenity & Recreation Department (all six of these headed by a Director); the Libraries, Museums & Art Galleries Department (headed by the District Chief Librarian) and the Direct Works department headed by the District Direct Works Manager. This departmental structure remained substantially in place until 1989 when the Amenity & Recreation Department and the Libraries & Museums Department were amalgamated into the Leisure & Recreation Department.
Bonnybridge: St Joseph's RC School
St Joseph's Roman Catholic School was built by the church authorities in 1925. The building was replaced in 1989.
Roman Catholics in the area had first asked for a separate school in 1920 and in 1922 Stirling County Education Authority refused this request on the grounds of cost and that the Education (Scotland) Act 1918, did not require the Education Authority to set up separate Roman Catholic school. The Roman Catholic Church asked the Scottish Education Department to hold an inquiry which the SED was unable to do. Stirling County Education Authority re-considered the request and rejected it again in February 1924. In 1925 Trustees for the Roman Catholic parents acquired a site at Bonnybridge and built a school. Under the Education (Scotland) Act 1918, Section 18(7), the Trustees then applied to have the school transferred to Stirling County Education Authority. In November 1926 the Scottish Education Department accepted that the new school was eligible for transfer but Stirling County Education Authority continued to oppose the transfer and so the Trustees took the case to the Court of Session for judgement. The case then was appealed to the House of Lords. The formal transfer was backdated to 28 December 1926.
[Source: A1050.001-028]
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