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2 unusual facts about Stirlingshire


Falkirk F.C.

The Stirlingshire Football Association was founded in 1883, which invited clubs from the Stirlingshire region to join.

Despite the club's success, several months beforehand a proposal to merge with local rivals East Stirlingshire was raised, which was narrowly rejected in a vote.


Balfron High School

The catchment area extends over most of West Stirlingshire including the villages of Arnprior, Balfron, Balmaha, Blanefield, Buchlyvie, Croftamie, Drymen, Fintry, Killearn, Kippen, Milton of Buchanan and Strathblane, along with the hamlets of Balfron Station, Boquhan, Buchanan Smithy and Mugdock.

Grasshoppers F.C.

Grasshoppers Football Club, sometimes known as Bonnybridge Grasshoppers, was a Scottish association football club based in Bonnybridge, Stirlingshire.

Jim McNab

Jim McNab (13 April 1940, Denny, Stirlingshire, Scotland – 29 June 2006) was a footballer with Sunderland, Preston North End and Stockport County.

Joseph Bolton

Joseph Cheney Bolton, British Member of Parliament for Stirlingshire, 1880–1892

Kenneth Mackenzie, 8th of Kintail

Not long afterwards, while at Torwood in Stirlingshire with Mackintosh, he was attacked and killed by the Laird of Buchanan.

Manaw Gododdin

South of the Firth of Forth and River Forth the name survives in the name of Slamannan Moor and the village of Slamannan, in Stirlingshire.

Michael Linning Melville

Married to Elizabeth Helen, daughter of Randall William McDonnell Callander (died 1858), of Craigforth House Stirlingshire and Ardkinglas House, Argyle, and had issue (1) Robert Melville (judge, of Hartfield Grove Sussex, and Ashford Hall Salops), (2) Elizabeth (married Arthur Champernowne of Dartington Hall, Devon), and (3) Barbara (died young).

Neil Mochan

Born in Carron, Stirlingshire, he attended St Francis RC School in Falkirk, concurrently developing his footballing skills with juvenile side Dunipace Thistle.

Niall Mackenzie

MacKenzie, who hails from Fankerton, near Denny, Stirlingshire; won the British Superbike Championship three times from 1996 to 1998 on a Rob McElnea-run Yamaha team, and the British 250cc and 350cc titles earlier in his career.

Sultanah Helen Ibrahim

Born in Glasgow, Scotland in September 1889 and Scottish by birth, she was the daughter of a master saw-maker from Stirlingshire.

The Casuals

Bob O'Brien - drums - (born Robert O'Brien, 26 September 1944, Bridge of Allan, Stirlingshire, Scotland)


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