Spring Road Trip Drive With Music On History Visit To Parish Church Bridge Of Allan Scotland

Tour Scotland 4K Spring travel video, with Scottish music, of a road trip drive West on the A9 road from Perthshire on ancestry, genealogy, family history visit to the stained glass windows in the Parish Church in Bridge Of Allan in Stirlingshire. The church was built in 1860 to designs by James Henderson and enlarged later by Robert Baldie. Robert Baldie was born at Stirling in 1824, the son of Henry Baldie, joiner and his wife Catherine Carmichael. He commenced independent practice in1865 but did not have an office until 1868 where he appears in directories at 29 Bath Street Glasgow. Despite his extremely extensive practice little is known about Baldie. He obtained the post of Clerk of Works on the Marquess of Breadalbane's Taymouth Castle estate c.1850, enabling him to marry Ann Lennox Fraser at Govan in 1851. His main business was church work in a somewhat routine early Geometrical manner. His largest work was the office block at Carron Ironworks, Falkirk, 1876, only two tall storeys high but of immense length. Baldie had six daughters but only one son, Henry, known as Harry. He was a draughtsman in the practice in 1881 and signed drawings of Dunblane Cathedral in the Glasgow Architectural Association Sketchbook of 1885. Baldie designed a scheme for sewage treatment in Glasgow. Details of this are to be found in Hints on Sanitary Reform: with a plan for the disposal of the sewage and the purification of the River Clyde by James Gray MD and Robert Baldie in 1870. By the time of Baldie senior's death at 37 Burnbank Gardens, some sources say he died in Bridge of Allan, as he spent time there later in his life as he was president of the Bowling Club and is recorded in Census records in Bridge of Allan in 1871 and 1881, on 2 February 1890 from chronic bronchitis, Baldie was in partnership with William Tennant. Tennant later entered into partnership with Frederick V Burke. Baldie's death on 2 February 1890 was reported by his nephew in law of 11 Irvine Place, Stirling. The A9 road runs from central Scotland to Thurso in the far north, via Stirling, Bridge of Allan, Perth and Inverness. Of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to visit one day. When driving in Scotland slow down and enjoy the trip. Find things to see and do in Scotland where you are always welcome. Easter is the time of the Christian year when Christians remember the Death and Resurrection of Jesus Christ. All photographs are copyright of Sandy Stevenson, Tour Scotland, and may not be used without permission.

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