Falkirk Heritage Trail

Discover ’s Story Follow one of our heritage trails and immerse yourself in stories from the past. Whether you are a local or a visitor, explore the history of Falkirk town centre. Discover the stories behind over 30 historical sites in the town. Choose from two trails and walk around the west or east end of the town centre. This is only a snapshot of Falkirk’s history. While walking, look out for other interesting buildings and architectural features. Trail One

1 Hour and 30 Minutes Starting at the Old Market Place, this trail explores the west end of the town including many of Falkirk’s former public buildings. Trail Two 45 Minutes Starting at the Old Parish Church, this trail explores the east end of the town including the iconic town Steeple and the unusual Tattie . Falkirk High Street circa 1900 Falkirk High St, Falkirk. Group of road causewayers, Kirk Wynd and Manor St, Kirk Wynd, Falkirk. Unknown Circa 1890 High St, Falkirk. Unknown Circa 1903 Falkirk. A C Brown, 1902-1913 Unknown, Circa 1910 A Short History of Falkirk Falkirk stands in an ‘the speckled church’. Over During the 18th century, iron goods and Falkirk as an important position at the the years this has translated Falkirk’s economy shifted industrial centre began to heart of central . into Scots as FAWKIRK away from agriculture decline. This position has ensured and then into the modern to industry. The town The town’s history is echoed its central role in Scottish FALKIRK. became a busy industrial in its surviving historic history from the Roman manufacturing centre, The town has given its name buildings, architecture and period till today. The town and many iron foundries to two local battles, the First local folklore. The town is has a fascinating history opened, including the on 22nd July like a history book in stone and has undergone many famous Carron Iron Works. 1298 between the armies of - all you need is the key to changes. From becoming During the 20th century, and Edward read it. a in 1600, to the there was less demand for I of England; and the Battle beating heart of Scotland’s of Falkirk Muir on 17th . January 1746 between the To explore more of Falkirk’s history visit The name ‘Falkirk’ Jacobite army, led by Bonnie falkirktownheritagetrail.co.uk or download the originates from the Gaelic Prince Charlie and the Falkirk Town Heritage Trail app via the app store. EGGLESBRECH, meaning Government Redcoats. Trail 1

The Old Market Place 1 Woo’ er Street 2 Manor Street 3 Bank Street 4 Co - op Department Store 5 Old Post Ofce 6 The Grammar School, Park Street 7 Princes Street 8 25-29 Upper Newmarket Street 9 St Andrews Church 10 The Old Town Hall 11 Christian Institute 12 Statues on Newmarket Street 13 The Burgh Buildings 14 Lint Riggs and Masonic Temple 15 Aitken’ s Brewery 16 Falkirk Public Library 17 St Francis Xavier ’s Church 18 The Old Sherif Court 19 The West Church 20 West Bridge Street 21 Site of Barr ’s Works 22 Drawing of original Cross Well. 19th Century

The Old Market Place The Old Market Place used The Cross Well used to 1 to be called ‘The Cross’ stand in front of the Steeple because the town’s Mercat but now sits in the fower Cross stood here from 1600 bed. The cylindrical stone until 1715. This was a symbol structure topped by a lion of the town’s status and was with a shield dates from the site of markets, public 1817. Locals celebrated proclamations, punishments the opening of the original and executions. The last well by the Livingstons in public hanging took place 1681. The Earl of Callendar here in 1828. toasted “the wives and bairns o’ Fa’kirk”, the frst record of the locals nickname ‘Bairns’. Wooer Street in 1979

Woo’er Street The narrow Woo’er or Tolbooth Street is just of Weaver Street links Manor Woo’er Street and behind 2 Street with the High Street. the Steeple. Some say it is This street once contained Britain’s shortest street, many small workshops. but not according to the They produced items Guinness Book of Records. using the by-products It is 58 feet long (17.7m). of Fleshmarket Close including glue, bone meal, and leather. The smell was said to have been almost unbearable and it would have been very noisy. Staf holding a snake at Kynoch’ s Pet Shop on Manor Street in the 1950s. Courtesy of Manor Street Until the late 1800s, Manor During Victorian times 3 Street was known as Back Back Row was grim and Row. In early Scottish narrow. Its buildings were this signifed the secondary overcrowded and insanitary street, parallel to the and the area was notorious main thoroughfare. Some for regular outbreaks of the evidence suggests that it dreaded cholera and typhus. may predate the High Street To help the inhabitants the as Falkirk’s principal road, Free Church appointed a linking the route from Kerse missionary to work among to the Parish Church. them! The Salvation Army Hall on Bank Street when it was still in use. Courtesy of Falkirk Herald Bank Street One of the oldest road Wetherspoon’s ‘Carron alignments in Falkirk, Bank Works’ was originally a 4 Street marked the northern church, built in 1843. In town boundary in the 18th 1915 it was converted into century. It was named after the Picture House Cinema, Falkirk Union Bank, which which screened Falkirk’s stood here from 1803 till frst ‘talkie’ flm in 1927. 1816. In 1852 Falkirk’s court Some buildings have been house stood on this street. demolished including the Rumour is that a tunnel ran Salvation Army Hall, built from the court house to the in 1910 and Violet Grove steeple. Cottage. Art Deco frontage of Falkirk and District Co-operative Stores on Kirk Wynd in the 1940s. Courtesy of Falkirk Herald Co-op Department Store When it was frst built in The building is one of many 5 1934, the then designed by local architect Co-op Department Store James G. Callendar in dominated the street. the 1930s. Its Art Deco The previous buildings style, infuenced by clean on this site were two- simple lines and ancient storeys high, so the new Egypt stands out in a three-storey ‘super store’ predominantly Victorian would have been a novelty. streetscape. Originally run by Falkirk Co- operative Society, it would have been a new shopping experience, with Falkirk’s frst customer lift. Falkirk Old Post Ofce on Vicar Street, circa 1910.

Old Post Ofce Falkirk’s frst purpose built Built in the Gothic Revival Post Ofce was built in 1893. style, it has medieval 6 At the time Falkirk was a inspired features. Some of prosperous industrial town these refect symbols of and the building was very the postal services. This important. Today’s instant includes a crown which communication makes is still used in the Royal it easy to overlook the Mail logo today. A modern impact the early post ofce extension was added in the system had on speeding up 1970s. The building was the communication. Job Centre before becoming the Business Hub in 2013. Old Grammar School in the 1920s before Princes Street was built. Courtesy of Falkirk Herald The Grammar School, 7 Park Street By the early 19th century, When it opened in May the parish school in 1846, the pupils walked in the Pleasance was procession from the old overcrowded. A new school school. The building was a was needed for students high school for over half a over 13 years old. The new century, then housed the Grammar School was built County Mining Institute in Park Street, despite (part of Falkirk Technical opposition. Some thought it College). On the opposite was “an out-of-the-way, low side of Park Street is the and unwholesome place”. former School of Arts and Sciences, which opened in 1878. The Regal Cinema on Princes Street, circa 1936.

Princes Street In the 1930s a new street A new street meant new was built, to prevent buildings. The mock ‘Tudor 8 congestion from the new House’ looked back to Bus Station. In 1933, the the past. Other buildings Prince of Wales, later in the new Art Deco style Edward VIII, opened Princes showed that the town was Street. Built over the former up to date! Pride of place playground of Park Street was the ‘super cinema’ School, it linked Newmarket now Sportsters Bar. The Street to the east end of cinema started life as the the town. Grand Theatre and became Falkirk’s leading cinema; the Regal, ABC and lastly the Canon. National Bank of Scotland Building, post 1900.

25-29 Upper 9 Newmarket Street This unusually shaped 30 years, business had building was built between increased so they needed 1862-3 for the National new premises. The Bank Bank of Scotland (now demolished the buildings Royal Bank of Scotland). on the corner of Upper It was designed by David Newmarket Street and MacGibbon, the bank’s Vicar Street and built the principal architect, in the current building as their Scots Baronial style. new branch. St Andrew, the symbol (logo) of the bank, The Falkirk branch of is carved above the original the National Bank had bank entrance. previously been located on the High Street. After St Andrews Church. Copyright Vass Media.

St Andrews Church The Free With seating for 900 and opened this church in 1896. a 130 foot spire, it has 10 It replaced a building in several fne stained glass Garrison Place which the windows including work congregation has used by William Wilson. In 1900 since 1860. The new red the congregation joined sandstone building cost the United Free Church over £8000. James Strang, and in 1929 re-joined the a leading Falkirk architect, Church of Scotland as St designed it in the Gothic Andrews Parish Church. style. Union with the West Church in 1990 created the present congregation, St Andrews West. The Old Town Hall on Newmarket Street in the early 1900s. Courtesy of Falkirk Herald The Old Town Hall A window fragment and a church north wall, including 11 side wall are all that remains part of the organ, fell into of Falkirk’s Old Town Hall. Newmarket Street. The Built in 1879, it was the light coloured stone on the heart of Falkirk’s community church shows the extent of for over 90 years; hosting the damage. It is now almost concerts, political meetings, impossible to build on the dances and other events. site, as concrete was used to support the church building. The new Town Hall opened in the 1960s. Plans were made to demolish the old building and build a church hall. When demolition work began in 1968, part of the Unknown celebration outside the Institute in the 1890s.

Christian Institute The Christian Institute has A key feature of the had diferent uses over the building is the triangular 12 years. It was built in 1880 at pediment. In the pediment a cost of £1,300. This was are a number of carvings fundraised by the Young including the YMCA date Men’s Christian Association stone and the heads of who needed a place to three ‘worthies’. ‘Worthies’ worship and study. In 1888 were people who infuenced Falkirk’s frst public library Christian organisations. opened in the building. When the library on Hope Street opened in 1902 the books were moved to the new building. Wellington’ s statue in front of the Steeple on the High Street, circa 1900. Statues on 13 Newmarket Street There are two statues in The second statue depicts Newmarket Street. Outside the Duke of Wellington. It the Burgh Halls stands is unclear what connection the South African War Falkirk has with Wellington. Memorial, commemorating The statue was bought by those who died during the Provost Adam for £130 in Second Boer War (1899- 1854. Made by the sculptor 1902). The statue depicts Robert Forrest, it originally a soldier of the Argyll and stood in front of the Steeple, Sutherland Highlanders it was moved in June 1905 defending a wounded to its current location. comrade, and was unveiled on 19th October 1906. King George V, Queen Mary and Princess Mary outside the Burgh Buildings during their visit to Falkirk in 1914 The Burgh Buildings Falkirk’s Town Council On the Glebe Street was established in 1833. frontage look for the town’s 14 Initially they met in rooms coat-of-arms with the connected to the Steeple in motto “Touch Ane, Touch the High Street. By 1880 the A’ - Better Meddle Wi’ the Council needed a purpose- Deil then the Bairns o’ built municipal building to Falkirk”. Meaning “Better house the council and their Meddle with the Devil then staf. As a result the Burgh the Bairns of Falkirk”. In the Building was built in 1880. 1960s the Town Council moved to new premises on West Bridge Street. Lint Riggs, circa 1902, before the street was widened and rebuilt.

Lint Riggs and 15 Masonic Temple Lint Riggs, means ‘felds of Most striking is the Masonic fax’, a reminder of Falkirk’s Temple on the south- agricultural past. Until the east side. It is the only mid 18th century linen was a Temple in the district. It major clothing material, but was completed in 1906 there is no record of mass for Lodge Callendar No production in Falkirk. Before 588. The temple’s hand- 1903 the street was only wide painted windows and Art enough for a horse and cart. Nouveau brass fxtures are A great improvement scheme noteworthy. that year produced the present layout with several fne sandstone buildings. Gates to Aitken’ s Brewery on Newmarket Street, circa 1910. Courtesy of Falkirk Herald Aitken’s Brewery The Aitken family began brewery covered the land brewing ale in Falkirk from between Hope Street and 16 c.1740 and remained in Glebe Street down to the business for over two railway. In 1900 it was centuries. The ales and reconstructed, with its porters from the Newmarket distinctive red brick building Street brewery were famous and 180 foot chimney across the world. that dominated the Falkirk skyline. Brewing ended on The early brewery occupied the site in 1968. The iconic the south side of the chimney was demolished street. In 1757 it moved in 1970. across the road to where is today. The new Busy Children’ s Section of Falkirk Library, circa 1935.

Falkirk Public Library Falkirk’s frst purpose-built Unlike the early libraries, 17 public library opened in customers had to search 1902. Andrew Carnegie through catalogues for initially donated £2500 books rather than browse towards the building but the shelves. In 1922 things ended up paying nearly changed and books were £6000. The result was the displayed on open shelves. distinctive red sandstone In April 1993 a new £1.5 building we see today. million extension opened to the public. The original St Francis Xavier Church built in 1843 on Hope Street, circa 1900. St Francis Xavier’s Church 18 St Francis Xavier RC Church statue of St Francis by is a good example of post- Maxwell Allen, made war church architecture. from a single block of Designed by - Blaxter stone. The building based architect Alexander showcases the work of Ritchie Conlon, in 1961, it various renowned Scottish replaced the 1843 church artists. This includes the which had been damaged Four Evangelists sculptures by fre in 1955. by Elizabeth Dempster and the Stations of the Cross, on The distinctive entrance laminated glass panels by tower dominates the Felix McCullough. streetscape. The modern design includes a 12-foot The Old Sherif Court and Gentleman’ s Fountain, circa 1896.

The Old Sherif Court The former Sherif Court court room but also the 19 House was opened in prison and, later, a police October 1868, replacing ofce, since demolished. a number of temporary A second court was added premises. The building, in the late 1970s and the designed in the Scots building remained in use as Baronial style by Brown and the Sherif Court until it was Wardrope of Edinburgh, replaced in 1990. contained not only the The West Church in the 1920s. Courtesy of Falkirk Herald

The West Church The West Church, built Presbyterian Church and in 1799, was designed in 1900 became the West 20 by Thomas of United Free Church. In 1929 Dunblane, who was they re-joined the Church of seriously injured during Scotland until 1991 when the construction. The ornate congregation joined with St frontage was added in 1884. Andrews Church. It is now ‘The People’s Church’. The The church was built for graveyard was cleared in the Falkirk’s ‘relief’ church, 1960s. Several interesting formed in 1767. This new memorials remain. Presbyterian group left the Church of Scotland. In 1847 they joined the United West Bridge Street looking towards the High Street, post 1905.

West Bridge Street West Bridge Street is named named for the aerated 21 after the bridge that used water works, on the south to run over the western end of the street near the burn (stream). The original Howgate. bridge was removed when The Government army the West Burn was piped of General Henry Hawley underground in 1871. The camped along the north of waters of the burn were West Bridge Street before used for many centuries to their fateful encounter with supply the tanneries which the Highlanders of Bonnie gave rise to the street’s Prince Charlie in January other name, Tanner’s Brae. 1746. Close by was Burnfoot, or Barr’s Lane which was Barr ’s horse and cart beside Gentleman’ s Fountain on West Bridge Street in 1900. Site of Barr’s Works Robert Barr started as a cork Barr’s most famous cutter. In 1873 his son began delivery horse Carnera was 22 manufacturing aerated named after the 1930s water at Burnfoot Works heavyweight boxer. Over 19 (near Cockburn Street hands (6ft 6ins) tall, he was roundabout). His products then the largest working included the famous ‘Iron horse in the world. One Brew’, called ‘Irn Bru’ since frosty day in January 1937, 1946. Falkirk had several Carnera slipped on Cow aerated water businesses. Wynd and died. Many became part of the Barr’s Company. They were taken over by A.G. Barr in 1959, merging both sides of the family business. Trail 2

1 Falkirk Old Parish Church 2 The Parish Church Graveyard 3 The Commercial Bank 4 The Steeple 5 Roberts Wynd and the Howgate 6 John Logie Baird’ s Workshop 7 The Site of the Falkirk Walk through Roman Fort the Howgate to the Pleasance 8 The Tattie Kirk entrance 9 Kings Court 10 The Cow Wynd 11 The Silver Row 12 The Cross Keys Inn 13 East Bridge Street 14 The Falkirk Falkirk Old Parish Church, before 1896. Courtesy of Falkirk Herald

Falkirk Parish Church Falkirk’s Old Parish Church The church as we see it 1 has undergone various today was built in phases. name changes, currently The oldest part is the central called Falkirk Trinity Church. square tower (c.1450). The The frst church on the site octagonal bell tower, added was established in the 7th in 1738, was designed by century. The name ‘Falkirk’ William Adam father of originates from the Gaelic famous architect Robert ‘Egglesbrech’ meaning Adam. Further changes the ‘speckled church’. It occurred in 1811, 1892 is possible that this name and 1995. derives from the speckled stone of the pre-11th century building. Tomb of Sir John de Graeme, circa 1890. The Parish Church Graveyard The graveyard is unusual as it is mostly grass. In the 1960s the gravestones were cleared to create a ‘civic space’. Of the handful remaining, two survive from the First Battle of Falkirk (July 1298). William Wallace’s ally Sir John de Graeme’s stone is surrounded by a decorative iron structure. Sir John Stewart has a fat 2 stone memorial. The Celtic Cross near the High Street is dedicated to the men of Bute who fought and died alongside Sir John Stewart. Further to the east stand the Munro and Edmonstone tombs, from the Second Battle of Falkirk (January 1746) between the Jacobite and Government forces. Commercial Bank on the High Street. Courtesy of Falkirk Herald

The Commercial Bank Tenements with shops Scotland. On the Kirk Wynd 3 below, like 1-9 Kirk Wynd, a frontage is a carved panel common feature of towns depicting ‘Commerce’, across Scotland, started to robed and crowned with be built in the early 1900s. a wreath. This shows the This red sandstone building Bank motto, Faith Preserved was designed by Alexander Enriches (Ditat Servata Gauld in 1904-5, as part of a Fides). The scene also wider improvement scheme depicts a shield carrying (1904-1910). the Scottish lion, a ship, a plough, barrels and a thistle. The High Street corner shop was originally the Commercial Bank of William Brodie’ s butcher shop in Falkirk Steeple, 1890s.

The Steeple For over 400 years Falkirk by David Hamilton, built has had a town steeple. It with sandstone from the 4 has had many diferent uses; local quarry at . It town jail, shop, information stands over 140 feet high. point. The current Steeple In June 1927 disaster struck. is Falkirk’s third, the second It was hit by lightning, to stand on the High Street. damaging the top 40 feet All the Steeples have been of the building. Falling symbols of Falkirk’s pride in masonry littered the streets the importance of the town. and damaged nearby The current Steeple, buildings, injuring several completed in 1814, cost people. A Barr’s lorry horse £1,460. It was designed was crushed by the rubble. The Howgate and King’s Head Inn, during the early 20th century.

Roberts Wynd 5 and the Howgate The High Street entrance entered Falkirk through to the Howgate Shopping the Port. The Prince spent Centre follows the line of the night in lodgings on Roberts Wynd. Also known the site now occupied by as Bantaskine Port, it was Waterstones book shop. one of the medieval town Stained glass windows entrances. It led from displayed in the Howgate the High Street to the commemorate the Battle. Pleasance. “The Soldiers of Fortune”, In January 1746, following depicting the Prince, Lord the Jacobite victory at the George Murray and Sir John Second Battle of Falkirk, Drummond came from Bonnie Prince Charlie’s army South Bantaskine House. The Falkirk Transmitter made by John Logie Baird. Courtesy of the Falkirk Local History Society John Logie Baird’s Workshop 6 Among the buildings Baird visited regularly and demolished to make way for held demonstrations of the Howgate Centre was the his invention in the area. former Falkirk public baths, In 1926 Baird presented which had replaced shops Hart with one of his early and houses in the Pleasance. transmitters in gratitude for One of these shops was the help he had received. owned by a radio engineer, Baird told Hart to give it to John Hart. He worked with a Scottish Museum and he John Logie Baird. Early work chose Falkirk. The Falkirk to develop the television Transmitter is the earliest was done here. surviving authenticated piece of Baird’s equipment. All Roman forts were similar in design. Falkirk Fort was similar to Rough Castle (pictured). Artist: Mike Moore The Site of the 7 Falkirk Roman Fort Falkirk’s Roman fort stood Callendar Park to Watling near here in the Pleasance. Lodge. Excavations in 1992 There are no visible traces confrmed its location. as it has been built over. The There was evidence of a fort was part of the Antonine pre-Roman settlement and Wall defensives. Constructed extensive ditching from the c.142 AD, the 38 mile long Antonine period. Remains wall ran across Scotland from were found of kilns, charcoal Dunbarton to Bo’ness. and iron slag, suggesting In Falkirk the remains of there was an annexe the wall and its V-shaped attached to the fort, used ditch crossed the town from for semi-industrial activities. Tattie Kirk and Graveyard. Print of Early 20th Century Sketch

The Tattie Kirk The unusual octagonal was paid in potatoes or it shape of Tattie Kirk, built in was a potato store. 8 1806, is unique to Falkirk The church was built and but not to Scotland. Local used by the Anti-Burgher myth suggests that this congregation until 1879. shape meant “there was no Afterwards the building has corner for the Devil to hide had several uses, including in”. It once stood on the a joinery workshop. Today edge of town, near open it is a fashion and beauty felds. Why it is known as boutique. The adjoining the ‘Tattie Kirk’ is unclear. graveyard containing many The name may have come interesting stones ceased to from it being built in a be used in 1869. potato feld; the Minister Cobble stoned Kings Court in 1958. Courtesy of Falkirk Herald

Kings Court This is the best preserved The Court was sensitively 9 example of the many courts, enhanced in the mid-1990s. wynds and closes which On the south side of the once ran of the High Street. High Street were Burns It takes its name from the Court, Wilsons Close, King’s Arms Court, an inn Swords Wynd, Buchanan that stood here in the 19th Court, Roberts Wynd, century. In the late 1700s Court and Baxters James Aitken began his Wynd, many of which solicitor practice here. His disappeared or were greatly successors continue the changed in the 1960s. business today; the original Kings Court premises was used for over 200 years. Cow Wynd in the early 20th century.

The Cow Wynd From the 17th century, Carron ironworks. When this wynd was one of fve the High Station opened in 10 entrances to the town 1842, it was renamed High through a town gate. The Station Road, but reverted town’s cattle were herded back to Cow Wynd in 1906 out of the gate to pasture. following public pressure. The road’s name has The handsome Greek changed several times. Revival style Bank of From the mid-18th century Scotland, opposite the it was known as Coalhill wynd on the High Street, Road after the carts carrying was built in 1832 for the coal from Sheildhill to Commercial Bank. Children playing in Silver Row. Courtesy of the Falkirk Herald

The Silver Row Falkirk’s lost street Silver it became a theatre in 11 Row, ran from Manor Street 1905. After many changes to the High Street through in ownership it opened as the area now occupied by the Roxy in 1938. It was Callendar Square Centre. part of the Scottish variety Along the Row was the circuit. Many celebrities Masonic Arms public house, performed there. Part of known to the locals as the Silver Row was demolished ‘Gluepot’ and St Francis in the 1920s. Most of the Primary School (1880 - buildings survived until the 1950s). construction of Callendar Riggs Centre in 1961. Many remember the Roxy Theatre. Originally built as a church (1742), The Cross Keys Inn as it was in the 1920s.

The Cross Keys Inn The Cross Keys was one of During his stay he etched the High Street’s well known a verse into a window. This 12 public houses. Scottish is now displayed at the wordsmith and bard Robert Robert Burns Birthplace Burns spent the frst night Museum in Alloway, but the of his Highland tour here building has a distinctive on 25th August 1787. He plaque commemorating the visited the grave of Sir John occasion. The Cross Keys de Graeme in the Parish remained in business until Churchyard and travelled the 1960s. to Carron ironworks where he was refused admission because it was a Sunday. Callendar Road (left) and East Bridge Street (right) pre-1909.

East Bridge Street This was the main entrance of the town gallows. Two 13 to the town from the east executions took place here before Callendar Road is the late 17th century, one opened in 1829. The for sheep stealing and one street was the site of the for child murder. In the 19th town’s frst gas works. century the site was the At the bottom of the hill, parade ground for Falkirk the road crossed Falkirk Volunteers. East Burn and the area around this was known as the ‘’, a common green that had many uses. At one time it was the site The remains of the Falkirk Tartan buried with a hoard of Roman coins in the mid 3rd century AD. © National Museums Scotland The Falkirk Tartan In 1934 a hoard of almost The coins covered the 2000 silver Roman coins reigns of several emperors, 14 was discovered by workmen until 230 AD. They may near this spot. The coins have been part of a payment were in a clay vessel with to local tribes to encourage a piece of cloth. The cloth them to keep the peace. was woven in a checked These are now in the care pattern using two colours of the National Museum of of wool, dark brown and Scotland in Edinburgh. a pale cream. This is the earliest example of tartan yet identifed. Trail 1

The Old Christian Institute Market Place Statues on Woo’er Street Newmarket Street The Burgh Manor Street Buildings Lint Riggs and Bank Street Masonic Temple Co-op Department Aitken’s Brewery Store Falkirk Public Old Post Ofce Library The Grammar St Francis School, Park Street Xavier’s Church The Old Princes Street Sherif Court 25-29 Upper The West Church Newmarket Street

St Andrews Church West Bridge Street

The Old Town Hall Site of Barr’s Works Trail 2

Falkirk Old Parish The Cow Wynd Church

The Parish Church The Silver Row Graveyard

The Commercial The Cross Keys Inn Bank

The Steeple East Bridge Street

Roberts Wynd The Falkirk Tartan and the Howgate

John Logie Baird’s Workshop

The Site of the Falkirk Roman Fort

The Tattie Kirk

Kings Court Walk through the Howgate to the Pleasance entrance Getting Here Midway between Edinburgh and , Falkirk is right in the heart of Scotland with excellent road and rail links. By car From Edinburgh - take the M9 towards Stirling, exit at junction 5 for Falkirk From Glasgow - take the M80 towards Stirling, exit at junction 5 on M876 and follow the signs for Falkirk From Carlisle and the South - M74, M73, M80, M876 and follow the signs for Falkirk From Perth and the North - A9, M9 towards Edinburgh, exit at junction 6 for Falkirk By bus There are regular buses between Falkirk and Edinburgh, Glasgow, Stirling and . Visit Traveline Scotland website for full details. By train From Edinburgh to Falkirk High (25 minutes) or Falkirk Grahamston - town centre station (35 minutes) From Glasgow Queen Street to Falkirk High (20 minutes) or Falkirk Grahamston (45 minutes) From Stirling to Falkirk Grahamston (15 minutes) Visit Traveline Scotland or Scotrail websites for full details. Acknowledgements This heritage trail was created as part of the Falkirk Townscape Heritage Initiative (THI). Falkirk THI was a grant -giving programme that helped regenerate Falkirk’s town centre Conservation Area. Between 2013 and 2018, £5.5million was invested in the town, to regenerate the area through repair work to buildings and community engagement. Falkirk THI was jointly funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund, Historic Environment Scotland, Falkirk Council and Falkirk Delivers. The production of this trail was also supported by Visit Falkirk and Falkirk Community Trust. www.visitfalkirk.com

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