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Weir Housing Corporation
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Robertson, David & Sons (Denny) Ltd
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Graham, W A M & Sibbald
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Stewart, Duncan (Bonnybridge) Ltd.
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John Bell
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Farmer. Heritage estate included subjects at Crossford and Broomage. He was tenant of the farm at Higgensneuk, Airth. He married Isabella Kay and they had seven daughters and one son: Jane (m. James Dunlop, miller, Millhall); Duncan, farmer, Manis, Bothkennar; Christina; Agnes (m James Scott, farmer, Shiells, Larbert); Janet (m. Charles Sorley, Glasgow); Mary (m John Mackinnon, dairyman, Lenzie); Isabella Kay (m. Thomas Hunter, blacksmith, Burntisland & Kinglassie); Maggie, (m. James Marshall, Kincardine).
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Robert McLuckie
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Architect
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Bain, William & Co Ltd
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Fritz Ilx
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Fritz Ilx was born in Breslau, Germany in 1916 and died in Bonnybridge in 1998. He served in the German Air Force from 1930 to 1944 when he was captured by American forces. He was held at Camp Carson, Colorado and Camp Indianola, Nebraska and then transferred to Castle Rankine Camp, Bonnybridge in 1946. From there he worked on Bonnyhill Farm, and after his discharge in 1948 he remained in Bonnybridge. He was previously married in Germany and had children, who made contact through the Red Cross in the 1950s but he lost contact with them. He died in 1998 in Bonnybridge Hospital.
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Dennyloanhead Church of Christ
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This church was opened on 15 November 1908 . There had been an active Church of Christ congregation in Dennyloanhead since the turn of the 20th century but they found their original meeting place was too small.
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Denny West Church
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Denny West Church was formed at the Disruption by a group who left Denny Parish Church. The congregation became part of the United Free Church in 1900 and then the Church of Scotland in 1929. In October 1963 the congregation was united with Broompark Church and the newly united congregation took the name Denny Westpark Church of Scotland.
The congregation met at Risk Farm, Dunipace and later met with Dunipace Free Church. A church was built in Duke St, Denny. Plans to renovate this building in the late 1890s were eventually superseded by the decision to erect a completely new building, which opened in 1900 as Denny United Free Church. |
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Denny Broompark Church
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Broompark Church had its origins in a group of seceders who left Denny Parish Church in 1738 meeting for worship at Lochgreen farm, Falkirk then moving to Bonnybridge. In 1743 a group left this congregation and built a church in Dennyloanhead. In the early 1770s the remaining Denny members began to express and interest in building their own church but it was not until 1787 that this church opened as an Associate Burgher congregation - referred to in the Session Book of 1793 as the "Burgher Place of Worship at Denny" The congregation united with Denny West Church in October 1963 and the Broompark building was closed, with the newly united congregation using Denny West Church building.
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Robert Miller
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Smith & Wellstood Clerk of Works
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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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John Scotland
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sculptor
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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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William Baird
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William Baird was an architect based at the Market Buildings, Airdrie in the 1900s (see building warrants)
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Hamilton, P & C
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Findlay Russell
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Findlay Russell (1930-2005) was a farmer, entrepreneur and campaigner. He helped found Glasgow Zoo and also campaigned successfully to widen the Glasgow-Stirling road. In 1953, after much research he was able to point out that the road was the busiest in Scotland on which he founded to lobby for the road improvements The result was a meeting with J Henderson Stewart, under-secretary of state for Scotland, and the building of the new road . Born at the family farm of Haircraigs near Denny, and twice dux of Dennyloanhead School. A canny businessman, he was always able to identify a gap in the market ,such as supplying Calor gas to the agricultural industry. Farm machinery, ice-cream production, vending machines and self-build homes were all at various times part of the Findlay Russell business empire. In 1936 he started selling the family farms surplus milk in a mobile milk bar. He parked it outside the bus station, selling milk shakes. When the Kincardine Bridge opened in 1936, Findlay employed Bette Kidd, to staff one of his milk bars. They married in 1940 He sold Haircraigs in 1947 to concentrate on his businesses. His success selling ice-cream at the Highland shows enabled him to look more generally at agricultural shows and outdoor sporting occasions, supplying catering, tents, marquees and PA systems. He was also elected as a member of the Institute of Patentees and Inventors. He was a local councillor for more than 30 years, a special constable, a prominent Rotarian, a driving force behind Age Concern, and a constant worker for the Order of St John. He was prominent in the preservation of Callendar House, and the restoration of Kinnaird House. Always an animal lover, he was a founder member at the 1947 opening of Calderpark Zoo. Unsurprisingly, he gained the catering franchise, He was predeceased by his wife, Bette (Elizabeth Kidd), and survived by his children Margaret, Archie and Elizabeth, six grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. adapted from The Herald
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J M Robertson
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Architect, working in Charing Cross, Grangemouth in 1905 and at 32 Craiglockart Rd, Edinburgh in 1938
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Alexander Brown
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Alexander Brown (b c 1827, d, 22 Feb 1884) appears in the 1864 Valuation roll at High St, Falkirk and is described as artist. No occupation given in 1871 census and described as grocer in 1881 census. On his will he is described as "photographer afterwards grocer" May be the same photographer who worked with James Dunlop as Alexander Brown photographs and Brown & Dunlop photographs have the same motto and coat of arms on the reverse
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