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Alexander Melville
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Rev Alexander Melville (1809-1839), son of Andrew Melville, minister of Logie, Fife. Educated at St Andrews, MA 1829, licensed by Presbytery of Cupar, 12 Aug 1829 and presented to Falkirk Old in 1835, ordained 22 January 1836. Died 2 Dec 1839. Married Catherine, daughter of Patrick Macfarlane DD, minister at Greenock. Son, Andrew, became prominent in Free Church of Scotland. SC 67/36/21 (535) Inventory , 10 Mar 1842
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John Brown Clark
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John Brown Clark (born 22 September 1964) is a Scottish former footballer. He is best known for his achievements in a lengthy playing career with Dundee United. He top scored for them in the run to the 1987 UEFA Cup Final in which he scored in the defeat in the final. Among his four goals in that run was one against F.C. Barcelona at Camp Nou in the quarter final.
He also played for Stoke City, Falkirk, Dunfermline Athletic, Ross County, Ayr United and Berwick Rangers. |
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Camelon School
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Camelon Public School was opened on 11 March 1876. By the 1930s pupils of secondary age were attending the Advanced Division of the school and in June 1960 the primary department was closed and the school became a Junior Secondary School. The primary pupils transferred to Bantaskin School in 1958 and to Carnuirs and Easter Carmuirs Schools in 1960. Camelon Junior Secondary School became Camelon High School in 1976 and was closed in 1989. The buildings became a Day Centre. The earliest school records were destroyed by a fire on 22 December 1905.
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Ross Chemical
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Union Chemical Co Ltd was formed in 1924 by Robert Ross and run from his home "Kinneil House" in Camelon while he was also Works Manager of Scottish Tar Distillers. Robert Ross died in 1943 and his son, Alexander J Ross re-started the business in 1946. It was legally bought out by a new Group company, Alexander Ross Holdings Ltd in 1987
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Camelon Junior Secondary School
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Camelon Public School was opened on 11 March 1876. By the 1930s pupils of secondary age were attending the Advanced Division of the school and in June 1960 the primary department was closed and the school became a Junior Secondary School. The primary pupils transferred to Bantaskin School in 1958 and to Carmuirs and Easter Carmuirs Schools in 1960. Camelon Junior Secondary School became Camelon High School in 1976 and was closed in 1989. The buildings became a Day Centre. The earliest school records were destroyed by a fire on 22 December 1905.
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Camelon High School
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Camelon Public School was opened on 11 March 1876. By the 1930s pupils of secondary age were attending the Advanced Division of the school and the school was re-named Camelon Junior Secondary School. In June 1960 the primary department was closed. Some primary pupils transferred to Bantaskin School in 1958 and the rest transferred to Carmuirs Primary or Easter Carmuirs Primary in 1960. Camelon Junior Secondary School became Camelon High School in 1976 and was closed in 1989. The buildings became a Day Centre. The earliest school records were destroyed by a fire on 22 December 1905.
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Polmont Old Parish Church
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Polmont Parish was disjoined from Falkirk by the Commissioners of Teinds on 22 July 1724. In 1929 with the union of the Church of Scotland and the United Free Church of Scotland, the congregation took the name Polmont North Church, The name Polmont Old was adopted in 1977 when Polmont South changed its name to Brightons Parish Church. Redding and Westquarter was run as a church extension charge from Polmont North. Linked with Shieldhill from 10 September 1961 to1 November 1963. First church building completed 1734, second church building completed 1844.
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Alexander Learmonth
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Alexander Learmonth was a flesher and grazier in Falkirk. His heritable estate included subjects in Redding, in Cistern Lane, on the south side of Falkirk, on the High St and in the Cow Wynd and he was co-partner of A. Learmonth & Co, Fleshers and Graziers. At one stage he owned a butcher's shop in the Steeple. In 1862 he built a tenement on the corner of the High Street and the Cow Wynd. This was called 'Learmonth Buildings' and accommodated his shop and house. He also had a slaughterhouse and purchased shares on the Stock exchange and in particular had shares in a number of ships. In 1845 Alexander Learmonth was a Trustee and Executor of Thomas Gaff's Will.
Alexander Learmonth was not married and had no issue. His Trustees included his brother, John Learmonth, farmer in Carmuirs, his nephew, Robert Galloway, flesher, Falkirk and niece, Elizabeth Galloway. He died in 1884. At his death he left moveable estate amounting to £23,475, quite apart from his various heritable properties. Before his death, he pursued a claim against a farmer/dealer, the owner of a Highland bulloch who had damaged his plate glass window. After various legacies, including those bequeathed to the Falkirk Female Society and the Ragged School, Alexander Learmonth left his estate among his nieces and nephews. |
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John Farquhar
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Joiner
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Thomson, D & partners
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M Simpson
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John Anderson
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Joiner
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Mottram, Patrick & Dalgleish
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The practice of Alfred Hugh Mottram was continued by his son James Arthur Hugh Mottram who had served part of his apprenticeship with Dunn & Martin and became a partner in 1950. In 1954 the younger Mottram took Thomas Edward Patrick, a friend from Edinburgh College of Art, into partnership; and in 1960 their long-serving chief assistant Andrew Martin Dalgleish also became a partner. The practice title then became Mottram Patrick & Dalgleish.
In 1968 the practice amalgamated with that of Donald P Whitehorn to become Mottram Patrick Whitehorn Dalgleish & Partners and some time later Mottram Patrick. In the same year Ronald Drylie was taken into partnership. [Source: Dictionary of Scottish Architects http://www.scottisharchitects.org.uk/] |
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James Hardie
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Architect
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Jeremiah Dixon
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Jeremiah Dixon FRS (27 July 1733 – 22 January 1779)[1] was an English surveyor and astronomer who is best known for his work with Charles Mason, from 1763 to 1767, in determining what was later called the Mason-Dixon line.
Dixon was born in Cockfield, near Bishop Auckland, County Durham, in 1733, the fifth of seven children, to Sir George Fenwick Dixon 5th Bt. and Lady Mary Hunter. The Mason–Dixon line was surveyed between 1763 and 1767 by Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon in the resolution of a border dispute involving Maryland, Pennsylvania, Delaware in Colonial America. It is still a demarcation line among four US states, forming part of the borders of Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware, and West Virginia (originally part of Virginia). It represents the cultural border between the Southern United States and the Northern United States. |
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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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Graham, William & Co
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McLuckie & Walker
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Civil engineers and architects
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Robert Thomson
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Joiner
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John Telfer
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John Telfer (1835-1915) was born in Newton Mearns, moved with family to Falkirk. Patternmaker at Falkirk Foundry then apprentice engineer, worked in Glasgow then Grangemouth on the screw steamer Elf. Ironturner with Smith Fullerton & Co, Camelon Foundry, foreman for ten years at Kilns then foreman at Castlelaurie Foundry. In 1886 transferred to assistant manager at Falkirk Foundry, then Manager of Castlelaurie Foundry. Retired c. 1904 when "Being exceedingly fond of photography they presented him with a valuable camera on his retiral" (Falkirk Herald July 22 1908) Set up "Telfer's Choir". Studied Tonic Sol-fa in 1866. and then set up the Falkirk Tonic Sol-fa Association and appointed conductor. Precentor in Grahamston Church (appointed by the Baird Trust). Also member of the Falkirk Building Society committee, member of the Sir John de Graeme Lodge of Oddfellows, member of Free Library Committee, Falkirk Burns Club and the Council of the Natural History and Archaeology Society. Baptist. Politically was a Unionist. Assumed to be same John Telfer as photographer of P713.
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