Victorian Walks Stirling

11/08/2023

Good luck to all ladies competing on Sunday 13th in the Wimen Elite Road Race and Women Under 23 Road Race

23/04/2022

First tour in 2 years!
Hopefully getting back to pre lockdown world!!

Join Gayle Ledger who will guide you around Stirling in Victorian costume bringing the city's Victorian heritage vividly to life.

12/04/2022

06/02/2020

Spring is just round the corner!
I’m always in awe when walk through Stirling some of the details the stone masons put into their work. It’s not just the thistles that are impressive, but the scroll work on the bottom of the widow is beautiful (sorry don’t know the technical term!)

05/09/2019

Although the Victorians gave us so much, we also lost things to them too!
The wall at Corn Exchange Road being one of them.
The old corn exchange yard, was flanked by the city wall, until mid 1800, then a pedestrian gap was made in the wall to allow access into the old town. In the late 1800’s gunpowder was used to blow up the rest of the wall to make the breach we see today!

08/08/2019

Some of the few remaining wrought iron fencing left around Stirling. During WW1 a call went out to donate metal for munitions. Many of the houses cut down their fencing for this war effort, but unfortunately this type of metal was unusable 😔

29/07/2019

Wow! The ladies of the day certainly lived on the edge! The corset wasn’t the most easy thing to be active in!
Photo of unknown group late 1800’s (from the lady’s outfit).
Don’t worry if you join our walk we don’t do anything as dangerous!😉

10/07/2019

An extract from a book ‘Kings Park’ giving a whirlwind history of the royal park!

04/07/2019

The clock tower of the municipal building- opened 1918 to replace the Atheneum in Kings Street.

04/07/2019

One of the many carriage mews around kings Park Stirling

22/06/2019

This theatre was based in the now Stirling Arcade, originally know as the Crawford Arcade, after William Crawford, who owned it.
The Alhambra Theatre is getting back up and running again. 😊

18/06/2019

Lintel details on a local house. Beautiful!!

14/06/2019

An old carriage mews in Stirling’s Kings Park

10/06/2019

Not quite Stirling, but close by !
It always amazes me that in the Victorian era the workmanship that went into simple things like lintels!!

02/06/2019

The Stirling Smith Museum and Art Gallery, beautiful place to visit in Stirling City Centre. Our tour goes past this lovely building and you can find out about Thomas Smith, the artist who’s ideas and money were behind it!

31/05/2019

Some beautiful images from around Stirling, do you recognise where the lamppost is?

27/05/2019

A beautiful, colourful selection of some of our pictures taken by around Kings Park