Miss SNP success for Bridge of Allan girl

Work started in early 1969 on the second stage of the Stirling Inner Relief Road.

The construction of what we now know as Burghmuir Road ran from the junction of Kerse Road, Burghmuir, Goosecroft Road and Upper Craigs, along the west side of the railway to a new roundabout to be built at the junction of Wallace Street and Union Street.

Constructing the new dual carriageway was Tarmac (Civil Engineering) of Denny .

In order not to disrupt access to the station, the new road was to pass beneath the station forecourt and Seaforth Place.

The Scottish Development department paid for three-quarters of the cost of the scheme which was due for completion by autumn of 1970.

Meanwhile plans for 217 homes and garages at Easter Cornton were approved by Stirling’s Dean of Guild Court. An application for the £275,000 development was lodged by Albert Thain, Calder Road, East Hermiston, and the development was to comprise 96 threeapartment homes, 90 four-apartment, 22 five-apartment and nine six-apartment properties.

Newspaper delivery boys and girls, employed by J&C Hogg, newsagent, Upper Craigs, Stirling, were equipped with fluorescent orange-coloured jackets for their rounds to help them avoid accidents while they delivered papers. J&C Hogg were thought to be the first newsagents in Stirling to take such as step.

Stirling North and South branches of the SNP jointly held a supper-dance in the town’s Station Hotel in early 1969.

It was an event which featured a `Miss SNP’ contest and three girls were chosen to go forward to its next stage.

`Although placed first, second and third they will all have a equal chance of progressing at the Stirling, Falkirk and Grangemouth area finals,’said the paper.

The winner was Miss Morag McLean, Bridge of Allan, and the runners-up were Miss Sandra Currie, Stirling, and Miss Margaret Ross, who was from Forres but happened to be working in Stirling at the time.