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P0227 · Persoon · 1858 – 1931

Sir Edwin Bolton, 1st Bt. married Elinor Elisabeth Graham, daughter of Sir John Hatt Noble Graham, 1st Bt. and Jane Browne Adam, on 12 April 1888. He died on 7 October 1931. He held the office of Deputy Lieutenant (D.L.) He was appointed Member, Order of the British Empire (M.B.E.) He gained the title of 1st Baronet Bolton.

P0233 · Persoon · 1940 - 1970

Harold Gordon Lord was a resident of Bandeath Lodge in Throsk, Stirling. He deposited papers relating to Bandeath Royal Naval Depot with Stirling Council Archives.

C0551 · Instelling · 1930 - 1949

This committee covered Bannockburn.

School management committees were set up by the Education (Scotland) Act 1918 (8 & 9 Geo. V, c.48). They represented individual burghs, parishes or groups of parishes and were composed of representatives of teachers, parents, and the education authority. Under the 1947 Local Government Act they were replaced by sub-committees or local education sub-committees, which were themselves abolished in 1975 (Local Government (Scotland) Act 1947, 10 & 11 Geo. VI, c.43; Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973, c.65).

St Mary’s Primary School
C0602 · Instelling · fl 1898 -

St Mary's Primary school has been on its present site, Park Drive, Bannockburn, since April 1936. It is a traditional style school built around a quadrangle which houses a pleasant garden area shared with Park Drive Nursery School, which is housed in the front part of the building.

C0095 · Instelling · 1956 - 1979

Bannockburn Junior Secondary School opened on 22nd November 1956. The new building cost £250,000. Bannockburn High School was brought into use on Wednesday 15th August 1979.

Cowie Primary School
C0098 · Instelling · 1886 -

Cowie Public School opened in August 1886. It was later extended in 1905 and 1911, and accommodated both primary and junior secondary departments. An evening Continuation School was also present from 1896 – 1908. The building underwent extensive refurbishment in November 2010 and finishing in August 2011. The school still operates to this date as a Primary School.

C0145 · Instelling · 1906 - 1989

The history of the National Union of Mineworkers can be traced to associations of colliers in the 18th century. It was common in the 18th and early 19th century for mineworkers to attempt to form unions, often calling themselves friendly societies in an attempt to avoid the combination laws and acts, which limited the powers of unions. Increased demand for coal, and the success of miners in Northumberland and Durham in securing a reduction of hours in 1831 - 1832, encouraged many colliers to form district associations: there were six county unions in Scotland. In 1842, the Miners Association of Great Britain and Ireland was formed to make local unions more effective.

In Scotland, the union activities of miners were strengthened by the participation of James Keir Hardie (1856 - 1915) who helped to establish and became secretary of the Scottish Miners Federation in 1886. The first national conference of miners was held in 1888 when it was decided to form the Miners' Federation of Great Britain. Although some miners' associations initially refused to join the MFGB, membership grew until by the early 20th century it represented over a quarter of all trade unionists in Britain. The first national miners' strike, which began on 01 March 1912, served to emphasise the value of unity and progress towards a single organisation continued. In 1945, the National Union of Mineworkers was formed with a membership of just over half a million. However, with the decline in the demand for coal in the second half of the 20th century and the government's attempt to reduce the power of trade unions, numbers fell steadily.

Fallin is one of the so-called Eastern villages near Stirling. The first pits were sunk at Fallin, Polmaise colliery, also known as Polmaise 3 and 4, in 1904 - 1906 with the mine closing in the 1980s.

Bannockburn Heritage Group
C0167 · Instelling · 1986 - 1992

The Bannockburn heritage group was founded in 1986 by local people and others interested in Bannockburn and its heritage. It had a committee and a full-time development officer. The group hoped to develop tourism in the area and create employment by linking nine culturally and historically important sites along the Bannock Burn by a heritage footpath. The group also collected historical information on Bannockburn and the surrounding area and held exhibitions and events such as the heritage fayre in order to further interest in and knowledge of Bannockburn's history. It was originally funded by the manpower services commission and Stirling district council but, due to a withdrawal of funding, ceased to function in 1992. The records were then deposited with central region archives and is now held at Stirling council archives.

Cambusbarron Kirk Session
C0215 · Instelling · 1929 -

In 1929, the United Free Church united with the Church of Scotland to form Cambusbarron Kirk Session. Previously in the Presbytery of Stirling and Dunblane, the church is now in the Presbytery of Stirling and in full ecclesiastical use.

The church building is believed to be on the site of an earlier chapel and burial ground. The church was erected in 1910 and was designed by Andrew McLuckie (1843-1911) and Ronald Walker (1858-1911), who built over 200 buildings in Stirling between 1886 and 1911. The building is in an Art Nouveau Gothic style and was constructed in local Polmaise stone.

The Bruce Memorial was added to the name of the church in 1976.