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Pen Pic - William McAulay - Falkirk FC - 1907
Continuing the Falkirk Herald's "Prominent Players" series of 1907 this time it is William McAulay Falkirk's Inside-Left for the 1906/07 season.By the time William joined he was already a veteran of...
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Pen Pic - Robert Stirling - East Stirlingshire FC -1907
Yet another East Stirlingshire starlet I know little about, yet featured in the Falkirk Herald's "Prominent Players" series.As far as I can ascertain, Robert also succumbed to the curse of ESFC players...
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Dan Kirkwood as a Reason against Wikipedia
The above is the Wikipedia entry on Dan Kirkwood, and whilst it it is not wholly wrong, it is wrong.For one Dan Kirkwood was born in Uphall, Linlithgowshire, not Linlithgow. Now I really don't care if...
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David McNair - Falkirk FC 1879-1881
Now, every so often I come across an obituary of a Falkirk player, it makes me smile.Well, yes he played for Falkirk, back in 1879, he played.I have always hated the Post-war glitterati, those who...
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Robert Parlane - Falkirk FC - 1895-97
Some obituaries you just come across, others you have to look for, this is in the latter camp.Robert Parlaneb 29thMarch 1871, Camelon, Stirlingshire d 9th March 1934, Camelon, StirlingshireDebut –...
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Archie Waugh - Falkirk FC Graves
Whilst out and about perusing my local Cemetery [Camelon] recently I happened across another name from the past that I recognised.I humbly apologise for my reflection ;(I will not bluster, Archie Waugh...
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John Rattray - Falkirk FC 1910-1913
John Rattrayb c1891, Ballingry, Fifed c1958Debut – Saturday December 24th 1910 v Raith Rovers (A) Scottish League Division 1Positions – Centre-ForwardKnown Career – Lumphinnans Swifts, Falkirk...
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Robert Godfrey signs up for McCrae's Battalion 1914
After digging about on the internet today, I came across the attestation papers of Falkirk FC's Robert "Bob" Godfrey, one of the Falkirk players who joined the 16th Royal Scots in the very early days...
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Eben Taylor - Falkirk FC 1902-1903
When researching football players in the dim and distant past I often have to try to find out about their lives outside of football, this can help since it adds more than just puting a players name and...
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James Laing WWI
I haven't posted anything in a while mainly because I like to space posts out and because I have been taking advantage of Ancestry's free weekend to look up stuff [for example I found four Falkirk...
View ArticlePlagiarism
I find it frankly sad when the supposedly educated people at Edinburgh University take my own, shoddy, work and try and pass it off as their own.The devil is in the very last sentence of both articles,...
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Alva, Stirlingshire?
You often hear about people's favourite moment in sport, whether it be a player droning on about such and such a goal, or a fan droning on about how [insert team/player] beat [insert team/player] and...
View Article1900 - East Stirlingshire's Summer of Cricket
During the football off-season of 1900, just on the brink of their entry into the Scottish League, East Stirlingshire decided to convert their ground, Merchiston Park, into a cricket ground for the...
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Football and Drunkenness
As I have previously noted, James 'Midgy' Tennant liked a drink, so much so it often got in the way of his football career. I just found this article about his 'exploits' being reported as far away as...
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George Thallon
Edinburgh Evening News - Tuesday June 19th 1894This is the closest thing to an obituary I have found for the former King's Park & Falkirk FC centre-forward George Thallon. His inclusion in the...
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Grandsable Cemetery
Having finally got my bike back into working order, I decided to get out again and look for more gravestones of footballers from the district. Since I have almost exhausted Camelon this time I decided...
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Falkirk FC Graves - Archie Jack
Signed from prominent Grangemouth junior club Forth Rangers, Archibald Jack was a promising Outside-Left who Falkirk signed at the beginning of the 1913/14 season, but who seemed to have made a good...
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Falkirk Amateurs FC Graves : Peter Auchinachie
Falkirk Herald - Wednesday May 4th 1910 Another chap who was better known locally for his place in the upper echelons of civic society than for his youthful exploits on the football field, was Peter...
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Lost Football Grounds of Falkirk District - Muirhead Park
Grangemouth Football Club, never world-beaters, nonetheless had one of most centrally located and easily accessable grounds in all of Stirlingshire. Their home for most of their history was Caledonian...
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Lost Football Grounds of Falkirk District - Inns Park
The home ground of Carron FC [1884-1888] was Inns Park, neither of which names have remained with us through history. To be fair Carron were never a great club, I'm not sure most people would class...
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