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Dunblane Doll’s House, 1940
Read moreShown here is a detail of the Nursery, one of the many rooms in the Dunblane Doll House. Each of the pieces is functional, as
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Wolf’s Tooth Baby Rattle
Read moreAfter two years in Spittal Street, the internationally important Neish Collection of British Pewter will be displayed in the Stirling Smith Art Gallery and Museum,
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North Sea Oil
Read moreWhy does the Stirling Smith Art Gallery and Museum have two sample bottles of North Sea Oil, when Stirling is quite a distance away from
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Burgh Officer’s Uniform
Read moreKenneth Derrick, pictured here, was the last Stirling Council Officer, 1974-1996, to wear the traditional uniform, which he has donated recently to the Stirling Smith
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The Stirling Ploughman, Henry Morley
Read moreThe Stirling Smith has a number of works by the Stirling based artist Henry Morley (1870-1937), and in 2004 mounted a major exhibition on his
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Celebrating Valentine’s Day in Stirling
Read moreTomorrow is St. Valentine’s Day, and Stirling, branded in recent years as ‘Scotland’s Heart’, is the place to be. This mass – produced post card
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The Office of Peter Drummond, Founder of the Stirling Tract Depot
Read moreThere are not many surviving photographs of historic office interiors in Stirling. This is the modest office of Peter Drummond (1799 – 1877), founder of
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The Stirling Lines of Robert Burns
Read moreWhen Burns visited Stirling in August 1787, he unwisely engraved his opinion of the town on one of the window panes of Wingate’s Inn (now
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Gilbert Rennie
Read moreGilbert Rennie How many people in Kippen are now aware of the important contribution of Sir Gilbert Rennie (1895 – 1981)? In this portrait, c1910,
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