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Tony O'Neill
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Falkirk Burgh Commissioners and Police Commissioners
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Commissioners under Falkirk Police & Improvement Act, 1859 In 1859 Falkirk adopted the Police of Towns (Scotland) Act 1850 (13 & 14 Vict., c.33). The means of doing so was a local act of parliament, the Falkirk Police and Improvement Act 1859 (22 & 23 Vict., ch.cxxiii). Under this the police commissioners were to be the Town Council, and obtained authority to take over the water, sanitation, street cleansing, public works and improvements, and various other powers previously held by the Stentmasters or Feuars including the raising of assessments to pay for works in the town. This Act sought to clarify what authority was responsible for which function in the town. In 1873 Falkirk adopted the 1862 General Police and Improvement (Scotland) Act (25 & 26 Vict, c 101) which gave additional powers in lighting, cleansing, improvements and police matters. The Falkirk Corporation Act 1890 (53 & 54 Vict., ch.xiv) confirmed the powers of the Town Council as police commissioners, transferred all of the Feuars' remaining powers and property to Falkirk Town Council, and extended the municipal and police boundaries. The Town Councils (Scotland) Act 1900 (63 & 64 Vict., c.49) provided for the incorporation of burghs and was adopted by Falkirk in 1900, leading to any responsibilities held by the Burgh or Police Commissioners being passed to the Town Council.
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Falkirk Burgh Police
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Stirlingshire Constabulary provided the police force for Falkirk Burgh. Stirlingshire Police Force was created in 1850 and was succeeded by Stirling and Clackmannan Police Force in 1949. It was called Stirling County Police from 1938 to 1949. It was abolished in 1975 and replaced by Central Scotland Police. [Source : SCAN Knowledge Base]
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Stirling & Clackmannan Joint Police Board
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Responsible for Stirling and Clackmannan Police. Replaced by Central Scotland Police
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Grangemouth Burgh Police Court
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Burgh Police Courts were responsible for summary jurisdiction and handled minor crimes. Royal burghs had courts from the medieval period, while the feudal lord of burghs of barony was entitled to hold barony courts. Under the Police Act,1833 and subsequent Police Acts the right or obligation to hold burgh courts (also known as police courts) were extended to Police Burghs.
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Bo'ness Burgh Police Court
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Burgh Police Courts were responsible for summary jurisdiction and handled minor crimes. Royal burghs had courts from the medieval period, while the feudal lord of burghs of barony was entitled to hold barony courts. Under the Police Act,1833 and subsequent Police Acts the right or obligation to hold burgh courts (also known as police courts) were extended to Police Burghs.
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Falkirk Burgh Police Court
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Burgh Police Courts were responsible for summary jurisdiction and handled minor crimes. Royal burghs had courts from the medieval period, while the feudal lord of burghs of barony was entitled to hold barony courts. Under the Police Act,1833 and subsequent Police Acts the right or obligation to hold burgh courts (also known as police courts) were extended to Police Burghs.
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Scottish Police Football Association
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Denny & Dunipace Burgh Police Court
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Burgh Police Courts were responsible for summary jurisdiction and handled minor crimes. Royal burghs had courts from the medieval period, while the feudal lord of burghs of barony was entitled to hold barony courts. Under the Police Act,1833 and subsequent Police Acts the right or obligation to hold burgh courts (also known as police courts) were extended to Police Burghs.
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Robert Bell
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Robert Bell (1815-1887) was educated at Edinburgh, he was called to the Bar in 1836. Lived in Shetland for where he presided at Lerwick Sheriff court for 22 years. Served as Sheriff-Substitute in Falkirk since 1865. Was, for several years, chairman of the directors of Falkirk Industrial School. He was an elder of Falkirk Parish Church.
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Stirlingshire Constabulary
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Stirlingshire Police Force was created in 1850 and was succeeded by Stirling and Clackmannan Police Force in 1949. It was called Stirling County Police from 1938 to 1949. Stirlingshire Constabulary provided the police force for Falkirk Burgh. Counties were empowered to set up police forces by the Rogue Money (Scotland) Act 1839 (2 & 3 Vict., c.65), which provided finance for the setting up of a county police force by the commissioners of supply. The Police (Scotland) Act 1857 (20 & 21 Vict., c.72) required all counties which had not already done so to establish and maintain a police force, and established the post of chief constable. County police forces were administered by a police committee made up of commissioners of supply, the lord lieutenant and the sheriff of the county. The Local Government (Scotland) Act 1889 (52 & 53 Vict., c.50) transferred the powers and duties of the police committees to standing joint committees composed of county councillors, commissioners of supply and the sheriff-principal. Under the 1929 Local Government (Scotland) Act (19 & 20 Geo. V, c.25) some police forces were merged. There have been further mergers since that date and today there are only eight police forces in Scotland: Northern, Grampian, Tayside, Central Scotland, Lothian and Borders, Fife, Dumfries and Galloway, and Strathclyde. [Source : SCAN Knowledge Base]
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Central Scotland Police
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Formed in 1975 on abolition of Stirling and Clackmannan Police Force (successor of Stirlingshire Constabulary)
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Link Housing Association
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Housing Association which has properties all over Scotland including many in Falkirk District
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Stirling County Police
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Stirling Burgh Police
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Falkirk Burgh. Stentmasters
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The Falkirk Stentmasters were established during the 17th century with representatives from each of the town's four quarters and the merchants and trades of the town. They had no legal powers but levied assessments on inhabitants in the burgh, managing initially the water supplies and later the sanitation, street cleaning and lighting out of their funds. They were 28 in number, and were elected annually. In 1814 they erected a new town steeple. The Stentmasters were effectively abolished by the Falkirk Police and Improvement Act 1859 (22 & 23 Vict., ch.cxxiii) under which the police commissioners were to be the Town Council, and obtained authority to take over the water, sanitation, street cleansing, public works and improvements, and various other powers previously held by the Stentmasters. Their property and privileges were to be vested in the commissioners (ie the magistrates and town council), their records were to be handed over, and their right to levy assessments abolished.
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David Gold
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David Gold was born in Falkirk on 29th November 1892, the son of David Gold, manager of the Crown Stables/Garage in Newmarket Street. On leaving school he was employed as a grocer’s boy and then a vanman and at the age of 22 years and 2 months joined the Stirlingshire Constabulary. In the register he was noted as a Protestant, 5ft 9ins tall, auburn hair, grey eyes and a fresh complexion.
On 18th October 1915 he resigned from the police to join the army. He served as a gunlayer in the Royal Garrison Artillery and subsequently suffered from hearing problems. He attained the rank of sergeant and was awarded the Military Medal for bravery, rescuing three wounded men under fire near Vimy Ridge in April 1917. He rejoined the police in 1919 and was presented by them with a silver basket to celebrate his award of the MM. He also received a certificate from Falkirk Burgh Council. His first wife, Jane Brown, died on 17th August 1921. He then married Agnes Braid and had the following children: David Gold 3.3.1923 William Braid 26.4.1924 Alice Hardie Brown 15.9.1926 His police record was as follows: appointed 22.2.1915 prob. Stirling 3.3.1915 3rd class 15.5.1915 Falkirk Council 1.6.1915 Resigned to join army 18.10.1915 Rejoined Falkirk 20.1.1919 Bucklyvie 27.7.1928 Killearn 26.2.1932 Grangemouth 13.12.1934 Retired on pension 20.12.1949 In 1934 he moved to Grangemouth and was given a police house in Newhouse Road and remained there until he retired from the force in 1949. At the age of 56, in September 1950 he joined BHC as commissionaire at No. 1 Administrative Block. He retired from this post in January 1962 and died just two weeks later on 23rd January. David Gold was born in Falkirk on 29th November 1892, the son of David Gold, manager of the Crown Stables/Garage in Newmarket Street. On leaving school he was employed as a grocer's boy and then a vanman and at the age of 22 years and 2 months joined the Stirlingshire Constabulary. In the register he was noted as a Protestant, 5ft 9ins tall, auburn hair, grey eyes and a fresh complexion. On 18th October 1915 he resigned from the police to join the army. He served as a gunlayer in the Royal Garrison Artillery and subsequently suffered from hearing problems. He attained the rank of sergeant and was awarded the Military Medal for bravery, rescuing three wounded men under fire near Vimy Ridge in April 1917. He rejoined the police in 1919 and was presented by them with a silver basket to celebrate his award of the MM. He also received a certificate from Falkirk Burgh Council. His first wife, Jane Brown, died on 17th August 1921. He then married Agnes Braid and had the following children: David Gold 3.3.1923 William Braid 26.4.1924 Alice Hardie Brown 15.9.1926 His police record was as follows: appointed 22.2.1915 prob. Stirling 3.3.1915 3rd class 15.5.1915 Falkirk Council 1.6.1915 Resigned to join army 18.10.1915 Rejoined Falkirk 20.1.1919 Bucklyvie 27.7.1928 Killearn 26.2.1932 Grangemouth 13.12.1934 Retired on pension 20.12.1949 In 1934 he moved to Grangemouth and was given a police house in Newhouse Road and remained there until he retired from the force in 1949. At the age of 56, in September 1950 he joined BHC as commissionaire at No. 1 Administrative Block. He retired from this post in January 1962 and died just two weeks later on 23rd January |
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Denny & Dunipace Burgh Police Commissioners
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Central Scotland Joint Police Board
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William McRobert
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William McRobert was born on 26th May 1887 at Glenbucket, Aberdeenshire to parents Alexander McRObert and Mary Beattie Ross. He was a farm servant before joining the Stirlingshire Constabulary on 15th November 1907. He subsequently married Isabella Grant and had two children - Grant born on 22nd.12.1908 and William John born on 25.2.1913. From 1907 until 4.11.1921 William McRobert was attached to the Kilsyth Police Station. He then moved to Banton, until 9.10.1924 when he moved to Denny. From Denny he moved to Camelon on 29.5.1928. He retired on pension on account of ill-health on 3.1.1933.
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