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Falkirk FC 1933
Here is another obscure photo of Falkirk FC that I have feretted?? [really don't know how to spell that] out of the archives.This is "Falkirk FC in pre-season training, 1933"I recognise several...
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Forgotten Heroes - James Bartram
Jimmy Bartram was a classic 1930s Centre-Forward [big, burly, great sholders] who earned the apt soubriquet "Battering Ram" in his short time at the club. Top scorer in each season he spent at the...
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Unsung Players - Jimmy Fiddes
I was driven to write this by the fact somebody misspelt his name on a forum recently, and although I normally never cover players from the post-war period Jimmy Fiddes played for Falkirk FC during the...
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Will the Real Mr Shankly Please Stand Up
I am tired of hearing how great his brother was, I am tired of his brother, before Bill Shankly began that thoughtless nonsense at Liverpool, his brother Bob was playing at Falkirk. Moving from Alloa...
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Falkirk FC Graves - Robert Fearns
Another of the many players who seem to have slipped through the cracks in the history of the club, Robert "Bobby" Fearns was Falkirk FC's regular Left-Half from 1892 until 1895. However he was often...
View ArticleCharlie Stirling - Prisoner of War
I do not always blog about Falkirk FC and this is the case for this post. Over the last couple of weeks in my spare time I have been reading quite a bit about "The Great War", and sometimes trying to...
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Falkirk FC Graves - Samuel Roper
To write about Sammy Roper is difficult, he was never a first team regular, but was with the club for nearly a decade.Sammy Roper was one of Falkirk FC's most loyal fringe/squad players, playing mostly...
View ArticleMistakes get Expanded
I was reminded by my fellow historian/researcher Drummond Calder the other day what we are often up against. We take books written by other people as sources for our research, but from knowledge, even...
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Not the First Ever Falkirk FC Match
Yes, that is what I meant, this is not about the first ever match played by Falkirk Football Club. Sadly, it would seem that match has been completely lost to the ravages of history. This is, however...
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John Pray
My little life was brightened, yet saddened at the same time when I found a picture of Bury FC from 1894/95 on t'web the other night. Brightened because it had a picture of John Pray in it, and a...
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Falkirk FC in 1930
Found yet another old picture of Falkirk FC from the archives, this time a rather poor quality picture of the team in pre season training before the 1930/31 season, among the players is a nearly 40...
View ArticleMost Stirlingshire Cup Matches 1883/84 to 2012/13
Not many people in the world of football rate the Stirlingshire Cup very highly, but do you know what? I could not give the slightest what they think: this is a local cup for local teams. It is one of...
View ArticleFalkirk FC players before World War II
For a while I have been trying to track down every player who played for Falkirk FC up to the Second World War. It is not easy, there was no central registration system before the Scottish League [and...
View ArticleFalkirk FC Players 1927
A little article appeared in the Falkirk Herald of 6th August 1927 detailing the Falkirk FC players for the coming seasonIt basically just gave their Height an WeightThe players were listed thus Player...
View ArticleEast Stirlingshire & Falkirk players to 1946/47
This is my attempt to put together a list of all the players who have played for the two League Clubs in Falkirk up the the Second World War [though it must be noted that neither club plays within the...
View ArticleFalkirk FC - Goal on League Debut
I pretty much have the complete Falkirk FC record for League matches 1902/03-1938/39, I am missing some first names & three goals, so am pretty confident about this.I would have compiled a list of...
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When Falkirk FC broke the World Transfer Record
In December 1918, the West Ham Centre-Forward was posted North of the Border, the closest club to his station was Falkirk FC [he scored 14 goals in that half season], His name was Sydney Charles...
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Falkirk FC 100 Club - James Robertson
I have hugely overlooked what can only be described as the best signing Falkirk FC ever made, in 1910 Blackburn Rovers signed Jock Simpson from Falkirk for about £1850, this was a lot of money in 1910,...
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Grasshoppers of Bonnybridge
A couple of years before people got round to playing 'the Association Game' in the town of Falkirk, a couple of miles to the West football in the County of Stirlingshire began in the form of the...
View ArticleFalkirk Cricketers v Falkirk Footballers
I don't want to sound all rose tinted & nostalgic for the amateur era [even tough I sort of am], but there was a lot to be said about sport back in the Victorian age. I understand that it was in...
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