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Falkirk
It is difficult to define Falkirk sometimes, so I thought I would resort to Law.This is Falkirk as defined by the Great Reform Act of 1832, end of.
View ArticleJohn Turner
We come, we go, none of us in the turn of events last for much of a muchness. I do not want to sound morbid, but I am morbid. John Turner only played one match for Falkirk FC, soon fell ill, then about...
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Death by Football - 1889
I came across an article in the Evening News, and saved it as it was to do with Football round about Falkirk, then I had a thought .... it was like - hmmmmm!The article was about a young bloke who had...
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Jock Drummond
Jock Drummond was not properly a Falkirk Bairn, but he was good enough for me, the family was living here by the time of the 1881 Census. he was originally from the Hillfoots. But it would seem he grew...
View ArticleThe Youngest Falkirk Player ... ever?
If you look up your Rothmans [or whatever it is called now], and look at the Falkirk FC pages it will tell you that the youngest Falkirk Player (post-war) is Gary Gillespie, but we who know stuff know...
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Falkirk FC 1919?
I have this picture in my possession, it purports to be Falkirk FC in 1919 [and I have no reason to doubt it, but cannot substantiate it either]. I can tell some of the players, Tom Scott [Back row,...
View ArticleClubs in Falkirk District - Gairdoch
Long before the current situation, in about the 1880s/90s if you were to ask a local who was the third biggest team in Falkirk District [clearly 'Shire then Falkirk [in that order] would be 1 & 2]...
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Town v County - 1902
In the aftermath of the Ibrox disaster nearly all of Scottish Football pulled together in aid of the benevolent fund and the Stirlingshire Association did their bit along with the others. A while back...
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Football & Alcohol - James Tennant
The victorians were weird people, well some of them were anyway. If you read enough into it their morals were generally projected upon the working classes in a "do as I say; not as I do" sort of way....
View ArticleJunior Hell - Heather Rangers 1897/98
Although I mainly concentrate on Senior Football in Falkirk District, as a sideline I do note down all football in the town & its suburbs. So I have reems & reems of results from all manner of...
View ArticleA Whole New Country
OMG, can I say that again, OMGCate Dickinson-Byrne just got in touch with me about her Grandfather "James Robertson" who was a legendary Falkirk Centre-Forward from 1910 to 1914 [and from that point...
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East Stirlingshire 1890/91
Sterling work [or luck] by the folk over there at 'Shire Towers in coming across a long lost picture of one of the mighty Zebra teams from the 19th Century, especially for me as it includes two former...
View ArticleClubs from Falkirk District - Comely Park
Now, first things first, I do not come to this from a completely unbiased position, as a febrile youth I attended Comely Park Primary School, so I was brought up in the same part of Falkirk in which...
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Cigarette Cards
Never have been a big fan of collecting cigarette cards, for a start there were always too few Falkirk Players [never mind next to no ESFC players], and to get players once with Falkirk [or 'shire] now...
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The Falkirk Herald
I am disgusted, one with the paper, and two with you Tad for not flagging up this shit, I read the online Falkirk Herald last week and saw this -Or you could just ask a bloke who has already read all...
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Falkirk v Kelvinbank 1877
Back in the day it was common for Combined Elevens to play matches, mostly for benefit games, but often as a bridge between Club and national football. Falkirk District XIs were commonplace throughout...
View ArticleSorry
I am sorry, I have not posted in quite a while, I am sad to say I took my eye off the ball, I am glad to say that I took my eye off the ball because the GF gave me the book of all the English League...
View ArticleFootball Player History
The bizzare thing about the History of Football is that often it is better to read history backwards than forwards, for example after a club, such as Falkirk, sign a Junior player, you can only find...
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Falkirk FC Graves - William Ferguson
Oh Dear, my atrocious filing system does me again. The other day whilst looking through the many pictures I have taken in Camelon Cemetery to try and cut down the sheer number of files on my computer I...
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Bury v Falkirk - 19th Dec 1896
Not one of the most illustrious notes in the history of Falkirk Football Club, but still a match worthy of noting was Falkirk's 0-9 crushing at the hands of Bury at Gigg Lane in December 1896, notable...
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