Retro

A new invention could bring a boost to the blind - and win its inventor £2500.

Grangemouth couple Joan and John Hendron could not believe their luck last week when they were handed the keys to a brand new Mini Metro.

Five generations of a family joined together at Falkirk’s Lochgreen Hospital to celebrate Christmas and New Year.

Retired nursing officer Miss Agnes Cadger saw her whole life flash in front of her eyes in Falkirk Royal Infirmary on Tuesday and she enjoyed every minute of it!

Sir Ian F C Bolton Bart., KBE, OBE, of West Plean House, the ‘‘father’’ of the Boy Scout movement in Stirlingshire has died in the Park Nursing Home, Stirling.

Jill Buchanan’s article in last week’s Falkirk Herald was a walk down memory lane for me and for quite a few others who spent many years of their working life in Falkirk College.

The girls outnumbered the boys in the New Year arrival stakes at Falkirk Royal Infirmary.

Having a smashing time at The Hurlet bar in Tamfourhill last week was White Horse whisky representative Mr Angus MacRitchie who is pictured here holding a bottle of pennies collected by the patrons of the popular local pub.

As this week’s Falkirk Herald went to press it was announced that the rector of Graeme High School, Mr William Morrison, had been awarded the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the queen’s New Year Honours List. Mr Morrison (pictured) has been rector at the Callendar Road secondary school for 15 years.

Top management in Falkirk’s ailing Callendar Riggs shopping centre this week sent out a giant New Year welcome to the proposed Safeway store development earmarked for the town.

Plans to launch a prescription collection service in Hallglen have been abandoned because of apathy of the residents who would be taking part.

Falkirk Ladies’ Circle held its 21st charter anniversary dinner in the Park Hotel last Friday.

A storm of protest is brewing over the decision announced this week to axe 400 jobs at a major Falkirk works early in the New 
Year.

The Hippodrome in Bo’ness - Scotland’s oldest purpose-built cinema - is to receive a grant of more than £60,000 to pay for far-reaching improvements.

A giant step forward in the plan to set up a hospice in the Central Region was made on Monday when a large country house near Denny was handed over to Friends of Strathcarron Hospice by a representative of the former owners, the Inveresk Paper Co. Ltd.

Mr Charles Hills, governor at Polmont Borstal for over eight years, leaves this week to become governor at Saughton Prison, Edinburgh.

A work of art depicting the defeat at Falkirk of the Scottish army by the forces of Edward Longshanks will be the crowning glory of an ambitious restoration project.

Victorian Grangemouth was a very wealthy place and few men were as rich and powerful as the great timber merchants.

The third phase of Falkirk’s Middlefield Industrial
Estate was officially opened on Tuesday with the prospect of hundreds of new jobs for the town.