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Alas Three O'Clock Saturday Afternoon
Fixture congestion! Avoiding clashes with other matches! We have all become enured to football matches being played at random times times [usually at the behest of the broadcasters] instead of what was...
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Alex Stark?
This very morning I got an e-mail from Gavin Bertram from New Zealand about a photo he had found in New Zealand which might be from the marriage of Falkirk's very own legend Alex Stark.Now some...
View ArticleWhen is a Bairn a Bairn?
Now I have always been a bit of a purist when it comes to 'Bairns' [that is people from Falkirk for the rest of the World] but I was surprised to be outdone by the correspondent of the Falkirk Mail in...
View ArticleSo close yet so far
When I research Falkirk players, sometimes the things I find are tantalisingly close to getting some facts. However, names are one thing, the ancestry [and even the government websites, all hide behind...
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Falkirk FC Team Pic Date Unknown
I have very little to go on with this pictureI can tell you that the chap three in from the left IS a young Jock Drummond, and that Falkirk FC are displaying Two Cups. This can only mean that this...
View ArticleFalkirk District Works Cup 1898
There have been many football competitions in Scotland from the international to the ultra-local, the best overall coverage of these competitions is on the Scottish Football Historical Archive....
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The Warriors - Established 1884?
Well, I have read the books, articles, match reports of Stenhousemuir in ye olde days of yore. Young kids playing on the Tryst; several successful junior sides merging to form the senior club, first at...
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Redding Pit Disaster Fund Tournament 1923/24
Way back in 1923 the No. 23 pit of the Redding Colliery flooded due to the insuffient safety planning by the Colliery management, the concerns of the actual miners seemingly not being conveyed to those...
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Bonnybridge Grasshoppers sometime before 1898
I have recieved an e-mail from one of the decendents of William Roy who played for Grasshoppers in the 1890s, and said descendent believes he is in this picture of the Bonnybridge Grasshoppers.NB- I...
View ArticleTallest Falkirk FC Players before WWII
This is another little arbitrary and completely meaningless list of former Falkirk FC players that I have put together. It is completely meaningless on two levels, the first is that we all know that...
View ArticleShortest Falkirk FC players before WWII
Since I had the info and done the research to find out for my previous post on the tallest Pre-WWII Falkirk FC players, it stands to reason that it would be as simple to look for the shortest players...
View ArticleFive-a-Side Tournaments
Back in the day, back when leagues were small and top class fixtures were thin on the ground, the notion of the pre-season friendly did not exist. It was not until the turn of the Century that football...
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Lost Football Grounds of Falkirk District - Tannery Park
The original home of Falkirk Amateurs, so called - because it was right next to a tannery. This ground is one of the easier grounds to find even though it is not on any of the OS maps. But it was...
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Lost Football Grounds of Falkirk District - Victoria Pk Camelon
The Second Home of Camelon [in their first Season there is mention of them playing on 'the Policies of Camelon House'] was that of Victoria Park. Known as Victoria Park because, frankly, the times...
View ArticleFootball "Up the Braes"
Rumford Rovers& Redding AthleticFrom Laurieston to Maddiston there is now a nearly contiguous line of villages just seperated from Falkirk because of Callendar Park.Back in the 19th Century they...
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Lost Grounds of Falkirk District - Merchiston Park
I asked Drummond Calder of The East Stirlingshire Supporters Society to write a piece on the 'Shire's old ground Merchiston Park, knowing that he would have researched in far more detail than I would...
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Lost Football Grounds of Falkirk District - Milnquarter Park
I just came across a fantastic new 'thing' on the NLS maps website, where you can look at the 1898 Ordnance Survey map cross-checked with the current bing maps to give it a historical context. So when...
View ArticleFalkirk & District Charity Cup 1884-85
The first edition of the Falkirk & District Charity Cup was a bit of a rushed affair, not so much of an afterthought, yet it was thought up so late in the season that all the arrangements were...
View ArticleFalkirk & District Charity Cup 1885-86
The second edition of the Falkirk & District Charity Cup was only slightly better organised than the first, and although they had had all season to prepare, it was not until April that the matches...
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Falkirk v Partick Thistle 24th February 1883
Now, I know that I would like to identify every player that ever turned out for Falkirk FC, I also know that that is an almost impossible dream, but I will keep working at it.What is thankfully bizarre...
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