1. Halloween Party 2008
(News/Latest)

There will be ghostly goings on at Halloween when The Falkirk Wheel magically transforms into the country's biggest and best guising venue PACKAGE 1 for F

2. Video Images
(Video/Video Images)

A small selection of video sequences of the Falkirk Wheel in action: n61KUGDWz2A

3. What are times and prices for 2008
(FAQs/FAQ\'s on the Falkirk Wheel)

The published prices and times for the Falkirk Wheel Boat Trips in 2008 and into 2009 are as follows: Feb 2008 - March 2008 Approx 5 boat trips per day from 10.30am. April 2008 - Octob

4. Grant for huge horse sculptures
(News/Latest)

... Two 100ft-high equine sculptures which will function as a boat lift will be built next in the Falkirk area, as a result of a £25m lottery grant. The artwork depicting horses' ...

5. Visitor Centre Opening Times 2008
(FAQs/FAQ\'s on the Falkirk Wheel)

Opening Times The Falkirk Wheel Visitor Centre is open as follows: 1st January - 2nd January 2008 - CLOSED 3rd January - 6th January 2008 10:00 - 16:30 7th January - 1st February

6. Deaf Football Project
(News/Latest)

Falkirk Football Club in association with RNID Scotland are running a 10 week pilot programme for deaf and hard of hearing young people living in the Forth Valley area. If you are aged 5-19 years

7. Wheel turns for top tourist sites
(News/Latest)

The Falkirk Wheel saw a massive increase in visitors during 2006, in a year which brought mixed fortunes for Scotland's top tourist attractions. The world's only rotating boat lift was visited by 4

8. Tamfourhill Marina Study
(News/Latest)

...al and outline design masterplan with market assessment and costings for a 100 berth marina at Tamfourhill Falkirk. The next steps involved promoting the concept through the Falkirk Local Plan ...

9. Halloween Party 2008
(FAQs/FAQ\'s on the Falkirk Wheel)

There will be ghostly goings on at Halloween when The Falkirk Wheel magically transforms into the country's biggest and best guising venue PACKAGE 1 for F

10. Is the Falkirk Wheel suitable for nursery outings?
(FAQs/FAQ\'s on the Falkirk Wheel)

The Falkirk Wheel is suitable for all age groups to visit or take a boat trip. Nursery children in the 3 to 5 age group are not specifically catered for and the play areas and activities availa

11. Do I require to prebook a boat trip before visiting the wheel?
(FAQs/FAQ\'s on the Falkirk Wheel)

...d you can plan your day around the trip time you have been alloted. You can book online at https://www.thefalkirkwheel.co.uk/online/index1.aspx or by telephone at 08700 500 208....

12. Kinneil Estate - 2000 years of history
(Magazine Articles/History)

Kinneil Estate is one of Falkirk District's most remarkable areas of parkland. Almost 2000 years ago, it was the location for a Roman fortlet, attached to the southern side of the Antonine Wall, the R

13. Industries in Camelon
(Magazine Articles/History)

... the charges were cabin three shillings and 3 pence and steerage two shillings three and a half pence. The Falkirk Almanack for 1836 gives the following information: "Forth and Clyde Canal C...

14. The Origins of Camelon
(Magazine Articles/History)

...ron was navigable beyond its site, but the Firth of Forth covered a great part of what is now the Carse of Falkirk, it is said to have been continuously occupied as a town by the Picts." AMA...

15. History & Legend - Step back in time
(Magazine Articles/History)

Falkirk District is an area truly steeped in tradition; an area where many of the most influential characters in the history of Scotland left their

16. Restoration: The Engineering Challenge
(Magazine Articles/Millennium Canals)

... Carron at Grangemouth - improving the towpaths - reconnecting the two canals at Falkirk. The Forth & Clyde Canal was the world's first man-made sea-to-sea ship cana...

17. The Soliton
(Magazine Articles/History)

The phenomenon of the Soliton, or single wave, one of the principles behind optoelectronics was first demonstrated by John Scott Russell on the Union Canal in 1838. Born in Parkhead, Gl

18. A First Glimpse of the Falkirk Wheel
(Magazine Articles/History)

The magnificent Falkirk Wheel opened in May of 2002 and these images show the final stages of the construction as the Wheel turns for the first time and the commissioning phase of the project

19. Falkirk Gateway
(News/Latest)

...s £200 million plan to build a massive retail shopping complex and business park on the edge of Falkirk town. Couple this with a £150 million investment being made at Bo'ness ...

20. The Antonine Wall
(Magazine Articles/History)

...orth side of Polmonthill ski - slope, although it is far shallower than it was originally. Callendar Park Falkirk The ditch of the Antonine Wall can be seen in the grounds of Callendar Park. It runs ...

21. Engineering Innovation
(Magazine Articles/History)

The creation of the wheel at Falkirk will ensure that the Millennium Link continues the innovative and creative traditions of their forebears when designing and building the Forth & Clyde and Unio

22. The Union Canal
(Magazine Articles/History)

...dlothian mine owners and Edinburgh coalmasters. This 50km (31.5 mile) contour canal runs from Edinburgh to Falkirk where it joins the Forth & Clyde Canal via the new Falkirk Wheel and just a short...

23. Walter Alexander
(Magazine Articles/Millennium Makers)

WALTER Alexander is the Falkirk Bairn who got an entire community moving. The founder of the world's biggest supplier of double-decker buses is remembered as a shrewd business man with a vision w

24. William Forbes of Callendar
(Magazine Articles/Millennium Makers)

...9;s Retreat', shows something of the hostility between Forbes and his former tenants and neighbours in Falkirk. In the cartoon, Forbes is shown fleeing,  believing that Callendar House has b...

25. Sir Thomas de Morham
(Magazine Articles/Millennium Makers)

...e of 'the county of Stirling'. He was certainly on the wrong but victorious side at the Battle of Falkirk in 1298 - I322 King Robert Bruce confirmed a charter to Thomas de Morham senior combi...

26. Sir Laurence Dundas
(Magazine Articles/Millennium Makers)

ONE of the highlights of the new century in Falkirk District and throughout central Scotland is the Millennium Link, the multi-million pound project to re-open the coast-to-coast canal route for the f

27. Lewis Hay Irvine
(Magazine Articles/Millennium Makers)

LEWIS HAY IRVING was inducted to Falkirk Free Church in November 1843 from the parish of Abercorn in West Lothian. In the six months since it had been formed, the congregation had grown to 250 and Mr

28. John Russell
(Magazine Articles/Millennium Makers)

IN 1785, Falkirk's town fathers, the Stentmaister's, decided the steeple clock at the Tolbooth was in need of urgent repair and invited tradesmen to tender for the job. The contract to "rep

29. Jock Leyden
(Magazine Articles/Millennium Makers)

...ce friendship with Mr Docherty that eventually led to a major exhibition of Leyden' s work being staged in Falkirk. All the material - including newspaper cuttings, original drawings and a `'map"...

30. James Finlayson
(Magazine Articles/Millennium Makers)

Born August 27, 1887 Falkirk, Scotland Died October 9, 1953 Los Angeles, California FALKIRK District has produced a crop of top talent over the years to entertain us. But local funny-man James Finlays