Old Photograph Bridge Street Avonbridge Scotland

Old photograph of cottages and houses in Avonbridge located seven miles South East of Falkirk, Scotland. Falkirk is situated in the Forth Valley, almost midway between Edinburgh and Glasgow. During the nineteenth and twentieth centuries Avonbridge was home to small scale open cast coal mining. The village also had a brickworks in the mid twentieth century which no longer exists. Nowadays the village is largely residential although Avonbridge is the base of operations for Stevenson Brothers a haulage company, whose bright orange heavy goods vehicles transport goods all over the United Kingdom. Blog post of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to visit one day.





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