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| Name: | Diane Bel |
| E-mail address: | alandianebel@ntlworld.com |
| Comments: | It was such a pleasure to read through your site ! I enjoyed the old pictures, especially of the graveyard in the snow.
My Greatgrandmother Mrs Binnie owned the 'wee shop' next to the 'Black Bull'. I have a picture of my grandmother standing in the doorway, must have been taken around 1911. My mother Agnes went to Old Polmont school, I also have a school picture from the the late nineteen twenties. I think the teacher was a Miss Abbott. I would be pleased to hear from anyone who remembers the ' shop '. Regards Diane Bel |
| Name: | derek gardner |
| E-mail address: | derek.gardner@blueyonder.co.uk |
| Comments: | hi great site i lived in polmont all my life went to polmont primary then st margarets my dad was wee wully with the beard he liked the black bull my mum was jean there no longer with us , my sister is janet brothers peter and jock .good to see some nice pictures and history keep up the good work. |
| Name: | lindsay |
| E-mail address: | linds@westnet.om.au |
| Comments: | My Gr8 Gr8 Uncle William Cooper was the schoolmaster in Polmont 1890"s to 1950's , and I would love it if anybody could e-mail me old school photos of the schoolmaster from that era. |
| Name: | Derek Algeo |
| E-mail address: | algeo25@hotmail.co.uk |
| Comments: | Hi there, was born in 1982, grew up in polmont and love the place, i am becoming very interested in the history of polmont and it's surrounding villages, still live close by in my own house just inside redding. Found it very interesting reading everyone's comments, and thanks for making the site |
| Name: | Billy Smith |
| E-mail address: | bill.smith@clyde2.com |
| Homepage URL: | http://www.clyde2.com |
| Comments: | What a lovely website.
I was the paper boy in Polmont in the 50's/early 60's so I might have dropped your Falkirk Herald through your door. I hope you left me a tip at Christmas! I was born in Brightons but lived in Polmont most of my life. Moved to Roberts Avenue when it was first built and remember it before that as a big field with a sandpit in the middle of it.Great memories of creeping about Grey Buchannan's estate as a wee boy and wondering how anybody could have such a large garden and grounds.In later years we helped out the Rev Talman at Church fetes up there. My Mum (Ruby Smith)also worked at Weedenshall for a time.I remember swimming in the reservoir before it was a fishing club,collecting frog spawn in the big pools down the hill from it, playing in the original Milfield House before it was knocked down to build the posh houses there, going to the Boys Brigade and buying a packet of Cheeselets in the Black Bull on the way home.I could write down memories here forever but nothing stays the same..who wishes they could go back and live there again in those carefree days? |
| Name: | Bob Paterson |
| E-mail address: | bobpaterson1948@btinternet.com |
| Comments: | Hi to all,
The site is great, I think I will be visiting Polmont soon and it will be a great help. I am researching my family tree, my G/Great Grandfather William Moffat was born in Polmont 9/3/1828 he married Jane Erskine born 1827? in Polmont. They both died in 1856, can anyone help? Thanks in advance Bob |
| Name: | marilyn kourinos |
| E-mail address: | marilyn.kourinos@maine.edu |
| Comments: | What a nice website and so much info. I will be staying a few days in October and your website gave me some things to discover. Scotland is my favorite place in all the world and I hope to come away from Polmont with some more wonderful memories. Thank you!! |
| Name: | Heather McRae |
| Homepage URL: | http://www.music4uonline.com |
| Comments: | I was born in 1982 and grew up in Falkirk, but my Aunt & Uncle lived in Upper Kinneil House (the upstairs flat within the former manse for Polmont Old Parish) from 1983 until 1989, and I have fond memories of playing on one of the fallen trees by the driveway. My Dad bought the downstairs portion in 1987 as a business premises, and the business is still in there today.
I joined the company last August, and am now living the upper portion (although we call it 'Upstairs Flat, Kinneil House' - there are three of us in our 20s sharing the place, and it sounds more in keeping with us than 'Upper Kinneil House'!). I have thoroughly enjoyed your site, but would love to hear from anyone who can tell me even more, particularly about the history of the manse. We still have the beautiful gardens (although as has been mentioned before, they are now surrounded by houses), and have tried to picture what they place must have been like before the motorway and surrounding housing. We think that the West wall may be a later addition, and there was certainly a gate in the North West corner at one point. The house also has it's funny quirks, with extensions here and there, and chimneys that are no longer in use etc. Any details of the house's history will be very gratefully received, and if you remember the house in former times and would like to see it again, please do call by, particularly during the day, when I can pop out of the office for a few minutes to show you the garden etc. Many thanks, Heather |
| Name: | gill whitford |
| E-mail address: | gdwhitford@tiscali.co.uk |
| Comments: | My grt grt grt grandfather, John Jenkins married Helen Rae in 1798. Helen was born in Polmont in1780 and her ancestestors were all Scottish.
John and Helen had three sons, John, George and Charles. George, my grt grt grandfather was born in Ireland. Does anyone know of this family and why they went to Ireland? George then married a Hampshire girl, Jane Williams, and the Jenkins family lived on the Isle of Wight for a few generations. George was a chimney sweep, as was my grt grandfather, John. If anyone knows anything of the Jenkins or the Rae family, I would love to hear from them. |
| Name: | Sandra Reid |
| E-mail address: | SMReid@aol.com |
| Comments: | I wish to correct you on the date of the opening of the present church at Polmont. The foundation stone was laid in May 1844 with the church opening for worship in 1845. Maybe just a typo error! |
| Name: | John M. Anderson |
| E-mail address: | info@ravenswoodguesthouse.com |
| Homepage URL: | http://www.ravenswoodguesthouse.com |
| Comments: | I am 55 and was born in Brightons,where my father still lives,87yrs.This is a great site with many fond memories,my Grandfather,James Anderson worked at Polmont sheds,as a Train driver. |
| Name: | Bob Paterson |
| E-mail address: | bob@robertp.com |
| Comments: | Nice to remember Polmont, I lived in Weedingshall in the 50's when it was a childrens home....I believe it still is now. Myself & my brother Andy were there along with about 20 / 30 other kids and remember great fun in the woods which we new as the 'Fairy Glen' with a small river running through, I don't know if that was it's proper name or just what us kids called it. I live in Surrey now but go back whenever I visit Scotland. Weedingshall has changed a little since then....the nurses wing and courtyard have gone, but the house itself is still the same. Driving up the drive brings back so many memories. |
| Name: | Chris Galloway |
| E-mail address: | c.galloway@blueyonder.co.uk |
| Comments: | Interesting site, some nice pictures. I would be interested to see some images of Old Polmont before the government tyrants and Falkirk Council tried to destroy, and still are destroying Polmont. I will start my own site on the "usurped" region of Polmont, and the outskirts. When completed I shall be sure to include a link to this pleasant website.
Keep up the good work. |
| Name: | Barbara Butler |
| E-mail address: | barbarafbutler@btinternet.com |
| Comments: | This is a lovely site for all who live or have lived in the village of Old Polmont although it has only recently been given the "old" part. My dad built our house in Old Polmont in 1954 and my sisters and brother spent our childhood years there. We had great fun playing in Polmont Woods, picnics up the "Ressie" as we called it where there were rafts which were sailed across the water.Lots of the village kids played in Harvey park but I did not know many of them as we were sent to a Catholic school.If only we had been allowed to go to the local school which was just around the corner.
We had sausage sizzles with the Polmont Brownie pack in Harvey Park where we cremated potatoes wrapped in silver paper.Mrs Ada Hotson, who lived at the end of Harvey Avenue and Janet Mclaren, now Mrs Anderson were the stalwarts of the Brownies. Many a night I skipped around the toadstool with a little owl on top of it. I remember when the Motorway was cut through those lovely fields and our shoes were always dirty by the time we had walked up the Entry to catch the Number 88 in Harvey avenue. I cannot understand why the "old Polmont" sign was not placed immediately after you cross the motorway which is where the old school is and the church.These are probably two of the oldest buildings down here but the sign has been placed further down the Kirk Entry near Rosepark. I remember when the Link houses were built and us kids played up on the roof of the flats as they were being built. This was our playground and we stayed out for hours with no worries for our safety. Polmont Village has changed immensely over the years but I have very fond memories of my childhood as do my brother and sisters. I occasionally see a face from the past walking along the Main Street which is lovely. I hope the plans for a huge complex at the Lathallan end of the village never get off the ground as it will turn what used to be a lovely country village into a town. Thank you for your lovely site Barbara Butler |
| Name: | David |
| Comments: | Well done on a great site on Old Polmont. I have lived there all my life and love it and am glad someone has took the time to show everyone what it is like.
Well Done |
| Name: | Donald Walker |
| E-mail address: | dw@dswalker.com |
| Comments: | My Great Grandfather was a Policeman in Polmont for a period during the 1890's. His name was Alexander Stewart. I currently live in Los Angeles. |
| Name: | Hans de Bie |
| E-mail address: | jdebie@zeelandnet.nl |
| Comments: | Thanks very much for the beaufiful pictures.
I was in Polmont many times ( 1965 - 1981) Best wishes, Rev. Hans de Bie Netherlands |
| Name: | David E leask |
| E-mail address: | dl011g3179@blueyonder.co.uk |
| Homepage URL: | http://www.freewebs.com/westquarterdave |
| Comments: | Nice wee site, some nice pictures, to add to the discussion about 'Old'Polmont, the main village was called Bennetstown after Dr Bennet who lived in Whyteside and it was only after it began to be called Polmont that people started to make the distinction. 'Old' Polmont is really Polmont, the village at the top of the hill is a usurper. |
| Name: | Audrey Henderson |
| E-mail address: | ahenderson@westdevon.gov.uk |
| Comments: | It was lovely to see some old photos from around where I grew up & played as a child - I now live in Devon but have fond memories of Polmont & Brightons where my folks are from!
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| Name: | Bill McKeich |
| E-mail address: | yanakie@xtra.co.nz |
| Comments: | I live in New Zealand. My gg grandmother Mary Betts (Bates) was born in Polmont on 2 October 1831 before moving to Hogganfield with her parents Robert and Mary Bates. I will be visiting Polmont in July 2006. |
| Name: | Diana Robinson (nee Mair) |
| E-mail address: | diana.rob@btinternet.com |
| Comments: | I was born in 1957 and lived in Kinneil House, Old Polmont. My father was the Doctor in Grangemouth - Dr Alistair Mair. That was when the lovely old house and walled gardens were surrounded by fields and we could walk across the field to the church and graveyard. Now the motorway is on that side and there is a housing estate on the other.
I went to Polmont Primary for a short time before we moved to Port Appin on the west coast when I was 5. I remember with great fondness Mrs Aitken (whose husband worked at the paper mill in Linlithgow) and Ellen, who was our Nanny. Lovely to see a site devoted to Old Polmont. Diana |
| Name: | TOMMY COCKBURN |
| E-mail address: | T.COCKBURN@BLUEYONDER.CO.UK |
| Comments: | http://www.falkirk.gov.uk/devservices/planenv/pdf/rurlppdf/oldpolvs.pdf
GO HERE FOR A MAP OF OLD POLMONT |
| Name: | TOMMY COCKBURN |
| E-mail address: | T.COCKBURN@BLUEYONDER.CO.UK |
| Comments: | Great to see some of the pictures of the village that I was (almost) born into, first home in fact was Buchanan Gardens St margarets then Netherfield Rd again St Margarets.
"Older" contributors will more than likely know my father(same name) through church,first aid and sicial contact and even further back to my grandfather(same name) as Town crier Linlithgow marches and station master at Polmont station. |
| Name: | John Lenaghen |
| Comments: | Hello George, thanks for the entry. I have this put to me every other day as my wife was born and bred in the Barns "Old Polmont". On going through old maps, www.oldmaps.co.uk dated 1865 and os map 31.05 dated 1896 no mention of Old Polmont was found. This appears to be a territorial matter. I have documents with the entry of Old Polmont dated back to the early 1930s, but before that the entries are Polmont Village, but I have been told that this was the locals who changed this when the new houses to the east of the village were being built to differentiate between the old and the new, thus having New Polmont and Old Polmont, them and us. The Falkirk council were the ones who decided where the Old Polmont boundery was to be, and changed history, I wouldn't offend a person born in "Old Polmont" ( I wouldn't dare ) |
| Name: | GEORGE WILLIAMSON |
| E-mail address: | polmontgeorge@hotmail.com |
| Comments: | As someone who was born in Old Polmont(according to my Birth Certificate) over 50 years ago, it was never located there. All of Polmont village at that time was looked on as Old Polmont. New Polmont was probably St. Margarets. It is only recently that the northern part of Polmont, north of the motorway, has been referred to as Old Polmont.
Why now, in the last 10 years, try to change the history and geography of Polmont. |
| Name: | Alexander (Alec) Myles |
| E-mail address: | acmyles@bigpond.net.au |
| Comments: | As someone who grew up in Old Polmont village and now domiciled in Sydney, Australia for the past 48 years,these web site images brought back some wonderful memories. Just a great experience down memory lane for this 73 yr.old, who often thinks back on all the good times he had in the village as a young lad! |
| Name: | John Lenaghen |
| E-mail address: | John@chrian.freeserve.co.uk |
| Homepage URL: | http://mysite.freeserve.co./old_polmont/ |
| Comments: | Thank you for taking the time to visit my website, if it brought back memories, please leave a comment |