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David Leask and the Maddiston and Rumford Local History Group remember growing up in Maddiston and the “gemmes we used to play.”

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She is well-known in New Zealand, the first country to give women the vote, but few people in Scotland know that temperance campaigner and suffragist Elizabeth Caradus was born in Falkirk.

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Where does the name Soo Hoose come from? What did Robert Burns do to the window of The Carron Inn? Find out here.

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The Swans of Carron

Find out why the Carron Company employed swans and enjoy local recollections about these unusual workers.

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Where Have You Bean Goose?: The Bean Goose in Falkirk District

Angus McIver has been tracking the migration route of a flock of Bean Geese who, since the 1980s, have chosen Slammanan, Falkirk as an annual winter feeding and roosting point. Read on, or listen to sounds of the geese calling, to find out more about this unique aspect of our local natural heritage.