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Action Photo - Falkirk v Queen's Park 1914
You how it is with digging out old pictures of football matches from the archives, they are quite impressive in their poor quality retro-coolness. I wish there were so many more of them available [and...
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Aftermath of a Penalty
Just a quick little post because I found this picture of the Dundee players picking the ball out of the net after a John Simpson penalty from September 1908, the game was a 1-1 draw at Dundee.I know...
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Falkirk District Clubs 1900/01
We are all used to seeing the previews of the up and coming season in our press, this of course is nothing new. Way back in the day these were as popular [if not as lengthy] as they are today.Way back...
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John Dora - What if?
In 1929, Falkirk having sold the record breaking Centre-Forward Evelyn Morrison were looking about for somebody who could replace the 40+ goals Morrison had scored the season before. Not an easy task...
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Falkirk FC 1908
What can I say? This was simply one of Falkirk FC's greatest ever sides, not often would a Falkirk side challenge for the League title so effectively, there are some legends of Falkirk in this picture,...
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Peter Cabrelli
Yet another Italo-Scot from North of the Tay [I have a certain fondness for Italo-Scots by virtue of 'being one' just the grandparents were the wrong way round for me to get a cool name], who came...
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Andrew Prentice
Andrew Prentice was a stalwart of the East Stirlingshire Half-Back line at the turn of the 19th-20th Centuries, he was helped in no little way by the fact that he was accompanied by those other 'Shire...
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Reading beyond the Sporting Columns
I must admit, when researching the game in the past, when it is a paper I know well, for example the Falkirk Herald I often skip most of the paper, I read the sports columns, and I read the local news....
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Reading Beyond the Sports Columns Pt II
Apropos yesterdays post about East Stirlingshire players/fans beating up defenceless people as is their nature, I came across this too.Of course I can hear people saying that Thomas was also a Falkirk...
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Falkirk v Aberdeen, Brockville Pk 1914
Another pic from the past, [there are lots of them out there if you are willing to dig] this one [according to the caption] is from the Falkirk v Aberdeen Division 1 Match at Brockville Pk on the 14th...
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Hibernian v Falkirk - Easter Road - Oct 1913
No real reason for posting this, just another picture of a Falkirk match, this goes out to Jason Urquhart& Bobby Sinnet.Oh and we cuffed you 3-0 on your own patch ;)
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Firs Park 1928
The home of the 'Shire for so many a season, Firs Park was always an interesting ground [the last time I was there was for an ESFC v QP match a couple of years ago] it has the famous 'wall'.Anyway, an...
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Falkirk v Aberdeen, 1946
Have nothing to add, except it was George Brookes [not Brooks]
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"New" Falkirk Match
Researching the past can be a pretty hit or miss occupation. If it was all available to see in a book, or on a website there would be no point in researching it ...It is hit or miss because reporting...
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Falkirk v Celtic Feb 28th 1914
Yes, I am biased, I like it when Falkirk win, but I like it more when Falkirk is shown in the backdrop, again, this shows Watson Street whilst we thump Celtic 1-0 to a James Robertson GoalIt doesn't...
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Thomas Townsley
Ah, Thomas Townsley, okay not quite a Falkirk-ite [he came from a couple of miles outside the town, he was from California] I like him for many reasons [not least of which is the fact I am vagueley...
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Falkirk FC's First Captain
In the first two seasons of the existence of Falkirk, match reports said remarkably little, often giving more space to the conditions under which the match was played rather than giving the details of...
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Sometimes it takes an annoying, self-righteous, self-important, obstreperous get to change the fortunes of a football club from that of also-rans into annoying, self-righteous & self-important...
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John 'Pitcher' Mitchell
I don't have much to say about John Mitchell, after all incredibly little was ever written about Goalkeepers, but I found this in The Falkirk Herald from 1976 which I found quite interesting.Before...
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Robert McDougall
The past is a long, long time, and sometimes people get forgotten: it just happens, more important things come along, and of course people die. I do not know if it is the job of us amateur historians...
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