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The Friends Committee meet for the frist time in the refurbished Arnotdale House and posed for a photograph on the main stair
Information Stories or Old Photos
We are looking for Information - Stories -Old Photos to publish on this website. If you can help in anyway please contact myself (Richard).
You can contact me by clicking on the contacts tab above and clicking on Richard and sending me a measage with your contact details.
I will contact you to discuss the best way for you to pass on anything you have.
Burnbrae Lodge on Burnbrae Road Falkirk
We have received a request for help from Kenny who lives in Burnbrae Lodge on Burnbrae Road (next to the residential home) Falkirk. He is trying to find any old photographs or drawings of the house as he wishes to try and reinstate the original window design and main door to the house.
He added, "We feel duty bound to match the original design as what is in place at present is neither fitting to the property nor practical in use".
Any help or advice you could give us on this matter would be greatly appreciated.
If you can help in anyway please cantact Jessica Paterson. You can contact Jessica via the link on our contacts page.
This is an article that we came across in Falkirk Local History Society.
http://www.falkirklocalhistorysociety.co.uk/home/index.php?id=51
Dollar Park in The Falkirk Herald
The Falkirk Herald published a story on Dollar Park Friday 3 February 2012
“Visitors could get lost loos back”
On Saturday 30 June 2012 The Falkirk Herald published a story on Dollar Park headed:-
“Anyone for tennis at Dollar Park?”
http://www.falkirkherald.co.uk/sport/local-sport/anyone-for-tennis-at-dollar-park-1-2381535
Dollar Park on the Web
Visit Scotland lists Dollar Park in its Garden and Parks section.
It describes the Mansion as: - Being a large Victorian 2 storey mansion with balconies, pediments and Doric door-piece.
Having a long drive way, defended by 2 Chinese lions, all among fine estate trees, shrubs and flower beds. The house together with its gardens gifted to the town by Robert Dollar.
It states that the park has public toilet facilities and that pets are welcome.
The Falkirk Community Trust website states that “Dollar Park is a beautiful area of mature parkland close to Falkirk town centre. The Park offers many horticulture attractions and numerous facilities to help you enjoy your leisure time.”
It goes on to list the summer time facilities available i.e.
“Facilities include “
Bouncy Castle
- 4 Tennis courts
- 18 Hole Putting Green
- Kiosk
It then goes on to highlight the opening times and prices throughout the summer period and finally states that the kiosk is “open during the summer holidays for hot and cold snacks and drinks.”
Jupiter Play & Leisure Ltd has a case study on their website of the work they carried out at Dollar Park
Headed “The adventure starts here” the site goes on to report:-
“The brief for this project from Falkirk Council was to design an inclusive play space for children aged 1-10 years that integrated with the existing mature park and showed individual character like no other play area in Falkirk.
Pulling on inspiration from the history of the park and local landmarks, a bespoke Robinia Wood pirate ship was designed to be the centre piece of the play area providing a theme that children can relate to and a unique identity for the play area.
The ship structure featured a name plaque ‘Newsboy’, which was the first ship in the millionaire Robert Dollar’s shipping fleet, who later gifted Dollar Park to the town of Falkirk. At the bow of the ship, a sculpture of a lion looks out over the play area, echoing the lion statues located at the entrance to the park and a Scotland flag flies proud on the mast!
‘Funding from our core parks development programme has created an opportunity to radically enhance or redesign playparks within several of our key parks.
The philosophy for play enhancement within our core parks is to provide sustainable unique & meaningful playspaces.
Our design brief for Dollar Park invited submissions to be sympathetic to the parkland character & identify with the historical provenance of this gifted park.
Jupiter Play & Leisure have successfully married our aspirations for the playpark by utilising focal play elements from their FHS Holtztechnik Robinia wood range and, in doing so, helped create an area with an organic feel which enhances the sense of space in this unique park.’”
It concludes :- “This is the first site in Scotland to predominantly feature the handcrafted Robinia Wood play equipment from FHS Holtztechnik, which combined with play-chip surfacing and glacial boulders is ideal for the natural, historic environment of Dollar Park.
Dollar Park play area was officially opened on the 2nd of May 2010, and has proved to be a popular addition to the wide variety of play areas on offer in the Falkirk area.”
The Association of Play Industries also reports on their site,
Another fantastic Jupiter Play design has just been completed at Dollar Park in Falkirk!
The brief for this project from Falkirk Council was to design an inclusive play space for children aged 1-10 years that integrated with the existing mature park and showed individual character like no other play area in Falkirk.
Pulling on inspiration from the history of the park and local landmarks, a bespoke Robinia Wood pirate ship was designed to be the centre piece of the play area providing a theme that children can relate to and a unique identity for the play area.
The ship structure featured a name plaque ‘Newsboy’, which was the first ship in the millionaire Robert Dollar’s shipping fleet, who later gifted Dollar Park to the town of Falkirk. At the bow of the ship, a sculpture of a lion looks out over the play area, echoing the lion statues located at the entrance to the park and a Scotland flag flies proud on the mast!
This is the first site in Scotland to predominantly feature the handcrafted Robinia Wood play equipment from FHS Holtztechnik, which combined with play-chip surfacing and glacial boulders is ideal for the natural, historic environment of Dollar Park.
Dollar Park play area was officially opened on the 2nd of May, and has already proved to be a popular addition to the wide variety of play areas on offer in the Falkirk area.
‘Jupiter Play & Leisure have successfully married our aspirations for the playpark by utilising focal play elements from their FHS Holtztechnik Robinia wood range and in so doing helped create an area with an organic feel which enhances the sense of space in this unique park.’