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Bo'ness Town Council. Public Library Committee
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Falkirk Town Council. Falkirk Public Library
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Denny & Dunipace Town Council. Public Library Committee
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Falkirk District Council : Libraries
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The provision of libraries is a statutory function of local authorities. Legislation began with the Public Libraries (Scotland) Act 1853. The Education (Scotland ) Act 1918 extended library provision to rural areas. Falkirks public library was opened in 1903 while Grangemouths Victoria Public Library was opened in 1886 and Denny & Dunipace had a library by the 1920s. In 1975 at local government re-organisation, the various burgh and county branch libraries were brought together in the Department of Libraries and Museums, and in 1989 libraries became a section of Leisure Services (as did museums). At local government re-organisation in 1996, Falkirk Libraries were a section of Community Services (within Culture & Life Long Learning).
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Falkirk Council. Falkirk Libraries
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The provision of libraries is a statutory function of local authorities. Legislation began with the Public Libraries (Scotland) Act 1853. The Education (Scotland ) Act 1918 extended library provision to rural areas. Falkirks public library was opened in 1903 while Grangemouths Victoria Public Library was opened in 1886 and Denny & Dunipace had a library by the 1920s. In 1975 at local government re-organisation, the various burgh and county branch libraries were brought together in the Department of Libraries and Museums, and in 1989 libraries became a section of Leisure Services (as did museums). At local government re-organisation in 1996, Falkirk Libraries were a section of Community Services (within Culture & Life Long Learning).
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Robert Dollar
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Businessman (1844-1932) Born in Falkirk, emigrated to Canada aged 14. Worked in a barrel-making factory in Ottawa and then a lumber camp. By age 22 he ran a lumber camp of 50 men, then moved to Michigan to set up his own company, the British Canadian Lumber Company. Moved to California in 1888 and opened a lumber mill. Started a shipping line in 1901. Granted Freedom of Falkirk in 1912. Dollar donated money for the purchase of Dollar Park to the town, as well as money to buy library books, bells for Falkirk Old Parish Church, fountain in Victoria Park. Robert Dollar financed Falkirk's first free library which opened in 1888. It was sited in the Y.M.C.A. on the corner of New Market Street and Glebe Street, and remained the town's library until a new building opened in 1902. He also donated the money for the construction of Falkirk Public Baths. The saga of Falkirk's public baths was a long one beginning in 1905 when Robert Dollar decided to donate a sum towards their construction. The money was eventually diverted to buying Dollar Park and Mr Dollar's money was never used for its original purpose. The baths were eventually opened in 1932 in the Pleasance, 27 years after Robert Dollar made his offer. He also donated a set of bells for Falkirk Parish Church in 1926. The Dollar chimes consisted of 13 bells, the largest of which weighed 3000 lbs. The dedication of the bells was conducted by Rev. Alexander Loudon.
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Alexander Balloch
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Grazier
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Bo'ness Library
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James Bald
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Alexander Monro
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Writer
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Trustees of James Oliphant Trust
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James Oliphant is described as Millwright or Engineer in the legal papers held in Falkirk Archives. The properties appear to have been in the Oliphant family for about 50 years.
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Grangemouth Library
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This was Scotland's second Carnegie library, completed just two months before America's first Carnegie library opened in Braddock, Pennsylvania on 30th March 1889. The competition to design the building took place in 1888, following a visit to the town by the newly married Mr and Mrs Carnegie in the summer of 1887. Mrs Carnegie informed the town council that her husband would provide the finance for the library, as he had done a few years earlier in nearby Dunfermline. The library's title came from Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee, which had occurred on 20th June 1887, around the time of the Carnegies' honeymoon visit to Scotland. The library is housed in a two storey neo-classical building designed by Andrew Black of Falkirk. It is constructed with locally quarried cream sandstone. Corinthian columns flank the arched windows over the doorways, and the composition is topped with a fine stone balustrade. It was designed in a universally popular style, which would readily fit in with the municipal buildings erected in the great cities on either side of Atlantic in the same era. The library was opened on 31st January 1889 by Mr. T.D. Brodie Its current use remains as a branch library, with the upper floor as a museum
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Andrew Carnegie
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'the man who dies rich dies disgraced'
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Andrew Mitchell
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Second son of Thomas Mitchell who owned subjects in Laurieston.
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Trustees of Thomas Taylor of Bankhead Trust
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Agnes Marshall
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John Marshall's widow. John Marshall was a merchant and baker in Larbert.
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Margaret Robertson
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Peter Burd
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Subjects in the north Back Row of Falkirk were conveyed by William Glen of Forganhall to Peter Burd in liferent and to his son Peter James Burd in fee.
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Joseph Stainton
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William Coubrough
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The first evidence of the family in these papers is in a Disposition of 1719 of subjects “at the east end of the Back Row of Falkirk’’ in favour of William Cowburgh, drover in Falkirk.
The spelling of the name varies greatly – from Coubrough (the most common ) to Cowbrough and Cowburgh. In the titles of the Back Row subjects by the early 19th century the subjects were described as ‘"in the Kerse Lane". The 1831 Valuation Roll has two relevant entries, both in Falkirk Parish – 1.That part of Elrig possessed by H.Coubrough and 2.-Thomas Henderson’s Houses and Lands in the Town of Falkirk purchased from William Coubrough, part of Westquarter (most likely the subjects mentioned above ‘’at the east end of the Back Row’’) These subjects had been sold by William and Henry Coubrough in 1785. Love says (vol 1,p.319 ) that the Coubrough family was “well known and highly respected, residing for several generations in the Slamannan district”. William Coubrough of Elrig was a partner of the Falkirk Union Bank at the time of its formation and until its failure in 1818. Dr William Coubrough, (1787-1864) of whom Love writes in the reference quoted above, was probably his son. He is said to have been for 40 years ‘’in the service of Carron Company as medical officer to the miners at Kinnaird and several other pits’’. In 1816 Dr Coubrough married Margaret, daughter of Thomas Aitken, messenger, auctioneer and town drummer (see also records of James Coubrough in the Russel & Aitken collections). There is also reference to William Coubrough, merchant, Falkirk and John Coubrough, farmer, Thorn. William Coubrough of Elrig was noted as living with John Coubrough of Thorn following the failure of the Bank and they may have been brothers. |
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