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Strang, Alex & Associates
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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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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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Wardrop & Reid
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James Maitland Wardrop and Charles Reid in partnership from 1873
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Alexander Nimmo
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Alexander Nimmo senior (1824-1898) was born at Westbank and his father was Alexander Nimmo, tanner and currier, Falkirk. Alexander was educated at Falkirk Grammar School and afterwards studied principally Chemistry and Languages at Edinburgh University. After this he assisted his father in the tanning business and succeeded him in it after his death. He also conducted a tanning and glue manufacturing business in Linlithgow in conjunction with Bailie Cuddie.
He took a prominent part in the formation of the volunteer movement in Falkirk in 1859. There was then only one company and it was known as the East Stirlingshire Rifle Volunteers. In February 1860, Nimmo was appointed a Lieutenant and on November of the following year he was gazetted Captain. On 10th January, 1877, he was promoted to the rank of Major, 26th May, 1885, Lieutenant Colonel and on 19th April the same year, he was appointed honorary Colonel in command of the battalion. After 27 years and 11 months service, Colonel Nimmo resigned his regular connection with the force on 9 March 1888. He married first Helen Russel (1828-1865) daughter of James Russel, writer, Falkirk; and second Margaret Robertson (1839-1886). His children were William Marshall Nimmo 13 Jan 1871-31 July 1871), Alexander Nimmo, who became a solicitor, Mary Crawford Nimmo or Gillies, Catherine Jane Nimmo or Sherriff, Jane Baird Nimmo or Darling and Margaret Robertson Nimmo. He is described on his death registration as "Gentleman", widower of Helen Russel (1st) and Margaret Robertson (2nd), and as son of Alexander Nimmo, tanner and Mary Nimmo of Crawford. Reference: Falkirk Herald 22 June 1898 - obituary of Col Alexander Nimmo |
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Isabella Bell
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Wife of Alexander Bell, trustee and beneficiary of the Alexander Bell Trust.
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Bo'ness Medical Officer of Health
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Falkirk District Council
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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. |
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William Graham
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Architect
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Stewart, Duncan (Bonnybridge) Ltd.
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Hamilton, P & C
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James Thomson
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James Robertson
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Simpson, McMichael & Davidson
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William H Scott
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John Taylor
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Architect
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Falkirk Town Council. Burgh Architect
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George Deas Page
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George Deas Page (1856-1929) was an architect working in Falkirk from c. 1900-1929.
He was born in Glasgow and was the son of Francis Page and Janet Mathieson and married Anne Anderson Graham. He died at The Bungalow, High Station Road, Falkirk aged 73. (Source GROS) |
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Matthew Steele
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Matthew Steele (1878-1937) was an architect, who was born in Bo'ness in 1878 and worked principally in Bo'ness. He attended Heriots School, Edinburgh in 1891 and then worked in Glasgow 1893-1905 before setting up his own practice in Bo'ness. He studied Architecture at the Glasgow and West of Scotland Technical College, 1896-1900 and his entry in a drawing competition won second prize and was published in The Builder, October 1902. Between 1893 and 1900 he probably worked as an apprentice draughtsman but his employer is not known. From 1900-1905 he worked as a draughtsman for Glasgow Corporation Telephone Company and he designed at least one telephone brochure front cover (Glasgow City Archives?). In 1905 he returned to Bo'ness to set up his own architectural practice, and buildings he designed include the Snab, the Knowe, a cottage on Dean Road, terraced houses on Kelty Avenue, Bo'ness iron Co officers, the Masonic Hall, the Hippodrome, Grangewells and many industrial, commercial and residential premises in Bo'ness, including substantial local authority housing schemes. He also taught building construction in evening classes at Anderson Academy, 1929-1932. He died suddenly in December 1937, while still running his architectural practice.
His son, Alexander Steele, who was working as an architect in Nottingham in 1937, took over two commissions on his father's death, but the practice otherwise ceased. Alexander went on to become Director of Planning for the City of Edinburgh Corporation Planning Department. A personal diary and photographs of Matthew Steele survive in family ownership. |
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Robert Stewart
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