Bo'ness Memories

• lamp post

  by isabel sneddon 11 Jun 2010

  I remember from my youth that a very special lamp post was positioned outside the Provost's house,...… 4 Comments

• Grays in Boness

  by Elizabeth Brennan 19 May 2010

  Hi, my great grandfather taught the apprentices at one of the potteries so I was delighted to find...… 1 Comment

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  Bo'ness Children's Fair Queens - where are they now?

  11 Mar 2010

  There have been 101 Bo'ness Children's Fair Queens to date, going all the way back to the Fair's beginnings in 1897.… 0 Comments

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  Bo'ness Cycling Legend

  by Derek Smillie 9 Feb 2010

  Jim Smellie... ever heard of him?Probably not but maybe if he was a football player or golfer he would be a local hero but as it is he is a relatively quiet man but wh… 0 Comments

• Bo'ness United - 1984 Scottish Junior Cup winners

  by Dorothy Dunlevie 10 Oct 2009

  Bo'ness United have a long, proud history, having lifted the game's biggest prize, the Scottish Junior Cup, on three occasions, and reached the final a further three times.This season that marks the 2… 1 Comment

• Bo'ness Children's Fair Queens - 1897 - to date

  3 Jun 2009

  On Friday 25th June, Georgia Sommerville will be crowned the 2010 Bo'ness Fair Queen - joining a list that stretches back over 100 years...… 0 Comments

• Our Festal Day

  26 Feb 2009

  The song of the Bo'ness Festival, 'Our Festal Day' is sung every year at the festival, and is a song that brings Bo'nessians together.… 0 Comments

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  Bo'ness Children's Fair

  27 Jan 2009

  This year's Bo'ness Fair will be held on Friday 26th June - a day which remains the biggest event in the town's calendar, many hundreds of years from its beginnings as a festival organised by miners.… 0 Comments

• Women's Suffrage Movement

  by Helen Jeffery 13 Jan 2009

  I am currently working with a group in Falkirk entitled 'Votes for Women'. We are producing a booklet about the activities and campaigning work of local suffrage movements.… 0 Comments

• Diz any buddy ken why they got these names

  by william Buchanan 1 Dec 2008

  For many years, I and many others, have asked this question. we lived in Castleloan and it had the strange name for this part of the block...… 0 Comments