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Alloa Road, STIRLING, FK9 5LN

The provider of work for disabled people had recently contracted with factory closures. The Stirling factory under Abbey Craig survived and is still working.

The Wallace Monument reflected in the River Forth. The crag is named after Cambuskenneth Abbey, which formerly owned the land.

A coal train heading for Longannet. The level crossing has recently been rebuilt as part of the reopening of the railway, but will wreck your car if not crossed with care - there are issues with the quality of construction.

The train is heading towards Stirling. Stirling Castle is centre left.

Newly rebuilt as part of the reopening of the line to Alloa and Kincardine. The same old design, with the wooden slats preventing livestock wandering up the line.

A view from the esplanade of Stirling Castle looking eastwards towards the Abbey Craig where the Wallace Monument, built in 1861, marks the spot where William Wallace and Andrew Moray are said to have lain in wait before the battle of Stirling Bridge against an English army in 1297. The wooden bridge which featured in the battle stood just upstream from the mediaeval stone bridge (c.1500) visible in the lower left-hand corner of the photograph. In 1746, one of the arches of the stone bridge was deliberately blown up to prevent the Jacobite army crossing the river to reach the town and the castle.

A view from the esplanade of Stirling Castle showing the Old Stirling Bridge over the River Forth and the Wallace Monument against the splendid backdrop of the Ochil Hills. "As this little, but very pleasant spot, was on the north side of the castle, we had from thence a most agreeable prospect indeed over the valley and the river; as it is truly beautiful, so it is what the people of Sterling justly boast of, and, indeed, seldom forget it, I mean the meanders, or reaches of the River Forth. They are so spacious, and return so near themselves, with so regular and exactly a sweep, that, I think, the like is not to be seen in Britain, if it is in Europe, especially where the river is so large also. (...) The form of this winding may be conceived of a little by the length of the way, for it is near twenty miles from Sterling to Alloway [Alloa] by water, and hardly four miles by land."-- Daniel Defoe, A Tour Thro' The Whole Island of Great Britain, 1724-6

On the road to Cambuskenneth. The railway has just been rebuilt and the crossing is new. They have helpfully given the grid reference too.