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Gourlay Feathery Golf Ball
Read moreUntil 20 March, the Stirling Smith has the privilege of hosting the famous Ryder Cup Heritage exhibition. The ancient Royal Burgh and City of Stirling
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The Stirling Smith receives its First Birthday Present for 2014
Read moreTwenty textile artists have collaborated on the new banner, sewn by the members of the Stirling and District Embroiderers Guild. With the 140th birthday
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Looking to Stirling from St. Ninians
Read moreThis view dates from the mid 1740s, and is certainly before 1 February 1746, when the retreating Jacobite army accidentally blew up St.Ninian’s Church, leaving
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The Wallace Monument and the River Forth, 1898
Read moreThis painting, by Art Master Edmund Baker (died 1926) of the High School of Stirling, is a recent purchase for the Stirling Smith, with the
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Remembering Bannockburn the Bannockburn Brooch
Read moreThe brand new visitor centre, interpreting the Battle of Bannockburn, will satisfy every question, about the momentous events of 23-24 June 1314, when it opens
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Stirling Threads
Read moreThe year of Homecoming, 2014, started in great style with wonderful fireworks displays at the Castle and Wallace Monument. 2014 will be Stirling’s year, with
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Hugh Green’s Stirlingshire – a Retrospective
Read moreJames Wedlake joined the Stirling Smith staff as an Intern, on the Museums Galleries Scotland Adopt an Intern scheme in September. A graduate in
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Stirling’s Plaza Ballroom
Read moreSyd Kerr’s Plaza Orchestra was the key to the success of Stirling’s Plaza Ballroom. The Plaza was created in 1946 from the former cinema, situated
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Stirling Observer Christmas
Read moreThe Stirling Observer Christmas Numbers are now the history journals of their times. This issue for 25 December 1949 is a recent gift to the
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