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Ribbon of Light
Our feature magazine containing articles about the Falkirk area, the canal network and other stories of interest. (ribbon of light is a 'romantic' name for the canal as seen from above - 'zif you didn't already know that.. )
Issue 3
| Kinneil Estate - 2000 years of history |
Kinneil Estate - 2000 years of 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 Roman empire's northernmost frontier.
Many years later, after the Romans had given up their struggle against the northern Britons, Kinneil was to be the site of a medieval village, its church belfry clearly visible to the captains of ships making for Bo'ness harbour.
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| A.G.Barr - Barr's Irn Bru |
A.G.Barr - Barrs Irn Bru
A.G.Barr - Born 1872 Falkirk, Scotland - Died 1903
FALKIRK has produced many famous products and not just famous people over the last 1000 years. One of the most famous has to be the legendary Irn Bru invented by members of the Barr family. The world has them to thank for the fizzy drink that proudly claims to be "made in Scotland - from girders".
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| James Finlayson - Screen Actor |
James Finlayson
Born August 27, 1887 Falkirk, Scotland
Died October 9, 1953 Los Angeles, California  James Finlayson - Screen Actor
This short, balding Scot was one of the original Keystone Cops, who worked with Hollywood legends Charlie Chaplin, Laurel and Hardy and was a friend of prolific film maker Mack Sennet.
Born i...
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| G.R.Stein - Providing the Building Blocks of Industry |
G.R.Stein
FOR a man who was to make such an impact on the brick-making business, John Gilchrist Stein made a less than auspicious start.
He quit his first job as an apprentice at Winchburgh Brickworks when bosses refused to give the 20-year-old Stein his father's job as works manager - and was sacked from his second post at a rival brick works after a row over royalty payments.
But when Stein parted company with Cumbernauld Pipe Works, it was not as a bitter young man. Rather, it was as an ambitious ind...
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| James Bruce of Kinnaird - Explorer & Diarist |
James Bruce of Kinnaird
James Bruce was a man destined to become one of the most celebrated Scots of the l8th century. A larger-than-life character, his diary of his travels in Africa caused something of a sensation when they were first published in 1790. A second edition which appeared in 1804, ten years after his death was a 'best seller' that proved popular with the Victorians who saw him as the prototype gentleman explorer.
Yet establishing such a reputation could not have been further from the young Bruce&#...
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