Valerie Forsyth

THE Iron Bridge at Cambus is popular with photographers. Although in disrepair and not open to the public, it still attracts attention.

ACCUSED witch Margaret Duchill listened as her confession was read out to the Presbytery of Alloa on 11th May 1658, although she died before her…

ONE of the streets Tillicoultry to be improved just before the turn of the 20th century was Frederick St.

CHARLES FORTE arrived in Scotland just before The Great War – he was unable to speak a word of English but went on to become one of the…

ON THE afternoon of Saturday September 30, 1911, the new Sauchie Public Hall was opened by Alexander P Forrester-Paton of Inglewood House, one of…

AT THE beginning of their six-day tour of Scotland which took in Clackmannanshire, Glasgow and Paisley, the late Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip,…

ON TUESDAY, June 26 in1866, John Francis Miller Erskine, Earl of Mar, was buried in the family mausoleum at Greenside Cemetery in Alloa, not far…

THE River Devon has been the site of many incidents and tragedies over the years but one of the most poignant involved two children from Fishcross…

Walk in the Past: Bill McDowell at Glenochil

At the High Court in Edinburgh on Monday, June 2, 1862, Mary Struth appeared charged with the murder or attempted murder of her father John Struth…