Old Photograph Tryst Road Stenhousemuir Scotland

Old photograph of cottages, houses and people on Tryst Road in Stenhousemuir located two miles North West of Falkirk, Scotland. The " stone house " from which the village took its name was a Roman building on the north of the Carron River Valley known in later centuries as King Arthur's oven. Stenhousemuir became home to the Falkirk Tryst one of the largest gatherings of livestock farmers and buyers from all over Scotland and beyond. These Trysts lasted from 1785 until the late 19th century.



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