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Peter McLean
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Architect
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Bradley Craven Ltd
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Company supplied local firms with equipment. Incorporated as Bradley and Craven Ltd (ie became a limited company) on 22 July 1974 and dissolved 29 Feb 2000.
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McLean & Grant
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W Morrison
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Architect
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Scottish Gas Board
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Mickel, R & Co
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George Rankine
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George Rankine was one of the four sons of John Rankine of Bantaskin and grandson of John Rankine of Barns. By 1817 he lived in London and at his death in 1850 he had been living at Havening Grange, Essex. His will was challenged by his elder brother John as it left heritable property to his other surviving brother, Robert. George's will was deficient in form to carry heritable property in Scotland with the result that Robert did not receive it and John, as the eldest brother, did.
George had two sons, William Henry Rankine and James Anderson Rankine. William was an engineer, working first in Falkirk, then at the Naval dockyard in Chatham and then returning to Falkirk. He died in 1912 leaving a liferent to his wife Helen Dobbie or Rankine. When she died in 1922 the remaining Falkirk property was sold by the fiar, Col Robert Rankine (Australian Army) of Dunmore, St Kilda, Melbourne. |
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Hartmann
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Hartmann's of London or F Hartmann produced postcards between c. 1902 and 1911. The company introduced the divided back c 1907. [Source: Internet - Edinburgh Photos & Hertfordshire Genealogy: (22/1/07) www.hertfordshire-genealogy.co.uk/data/postcards/publisher-hartmann.htm ]
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Thomas Smith
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John Campbell
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Stirling County Council. Roads Surveyor
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Callander, James & Son Ltd
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James Callander & Son Ltd Sawmiller and Box manufacturer at 22 Smith Street, Falkirk in 1956. The Sawmill was known as "Abbots Haugh Sawmill". c1969.
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Anderson & Sutherland
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W J Kane
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Architect
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Robert Gourlay Dick Hood
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RGD Hood was a professional photographer with studios at 12 Talbot St Grangemouth and 99 North St, Bo'ness. He was born on 22 February 1876 at 180 Comely Park St, Glasgow and died on 20 November 1960 at Woodscot Hospital, Stonehaven (source: GROS)
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Graham, W A M & Sibbald
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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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Ballantine Bo'ness Iron Co Ltd
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A Ballantine & Sons, ironfounders, Bo'ness, West Lothian, started up in the 1820s and was formally established in 1856. The Company changed their name in 1987 to Ballantine Bo'ness Iron Company Ltd.
A Ballantine & Sons was incorporated in 1919 with the registration number SC010292. In 2014 the company went into liquidation and a new company was founded called Ballantine's Castings Ltd. From 1877 the company was based at New Grange Foundry which was built in 1876 and opened in 1877. From their website www.creativeironworks.co.uk, 04 April 2003: "Ballantine started-up in the1820's on its current site and became formally established in 1856. The company is still owned and run by the Ballantine family. The company provides original metalwork, restoration and refurbishment to existing metalwork worldwide. Its range of over 250,000 patterns includes fencing, monuments, post boxes, lamp posts, manhole covers and extensive ornamental structures." Taken from their website on 23 February 2015 http://www.creativeironworks.co.uk/index.php/content/show/about_us/history "Ballantine Castings Ltd. is a new Company having been formed following the demise of Ballantine Bo'ness Iron Co Ltd. Ballantine Castings aims to draw on the success of the works previously made from our factory through Ballantine Bo'ness Iron Co. Ltd. Ballantine Bo’ness Iron Co has a rich and expansive history of metalwork in the UK and beyond. Having started up in the early 1820s, the Company became formally established in 1856, and have been in continuous production ever since. For the entire period the foundry has been owned and run by the Ballantine family and is now in its 7th generation." |
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George Meek
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Son of John Meek of Campfield. In 1897 entered church after studying at Glasgow University. Was a master of Masonic Lodge of Falkirk from 1806-1808. Married Janet Heugh, fourth daughter of John Heugh of Gartcows on 18 October 1819.On a trip to Italy, he contracted malaria and died at the Hotel of the Tre Mori at Bologna. His wife died on the same day soon after giving birth to a child, who also died.
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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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