Old Photographs Bannockburn Village Scotland

Old photograph of Bannockburn village located just South of Stirling, Scotland. In the late 18th and early 19th centuries the Wilson family, of Bannockburn, designed and wove tartans for the British army. Many of the so-called Clan tartans were created by the Wilsons in response to the needs of the Clan chiefs who, without their own authentic tartans, approached the Wilsons for suitable patterns. The visit of King George IV to Edinburgh in 1822, and his insistence that the Clan chiefs attend his banquets and levees in their Clan tartans, prompted this reaction. The Wilson family ceased business in 1924. Land in the vicinity of Bannockburn village, probably between the Pelstream and Bannock burns, was the site of the Battle of Bannockburn fought in 1314, one of the pivotal battles in the Wars of Independence between the kingdoms of Scotland and England.

Old photograph of Bannockburn village located just South of Stirling, Scotland.

Old photograph of Bannockburn village located just South of Stirling, Scotland.



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