Strathard Heritage Digital Archive

Welcome to our website which offers a gateway to the history and cultural heritage of our area from the eastern shores of Loch Lomond all the way to Aberfoyle and beyond. Between those boundaries is an area overflowing in characters and stories. Support from several groups and individuals has made this site possible. Please feel free to contribute more information and images.

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Spanish Influenza and Scotland

Do the face masks remind you of anything?
The Spanish Influenza Pandemic also known as ‘La Grippe’ has been the most significant public health catastrophe in modern times. In this article James Kennedy explores what this meant for Scotland where the epidemic was first recorded in May 1918.

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39 Steps at the Altskeith.

Place: Kinlochard, Loch Ard

Type: Photograph

Date: 20th century

Subject: Television, Media & Film.
Kinlochard Memorial Bench

Place: Kinlochard, Loch Ard

Type: Article

Date: 20th century

Subject: Social History
Photographs of Dounans Outdoor Education Centre 1948

Place: Aberfoyle

Type: Article, Video

Date: 20th century

Subject: Education, Historic Buildings, Social History
Stirling in Flight 2 Hot Air and the Daredevil Astronaut.

Place: Stirling

Type: Article

Date: 18th century

Subject: History, Transport
Stirling in flight-1. The flight of a special advisor John Damian.

Place: Stirling

Type: Article

Date: 16th century

Subject: History, Transport
Making Movies in Strathard

Place: Aberfoyle, Brig O' Turk, Kinlochard, Loch Ard

Type: Article

Date: 20th century

Subject: History, Social History, Television, Media & Film.
“Rob Roy” memories from Margaret and Wilf Luke.

Place: Kinlochard, Loch Ard

Type: Podcast, Video

Date: 20th century

Subject: History, Social History, Television, Media & Film.
Rob Roy The Highland Rogue (1953) Exhibition from 2003.

Place: Kinlochard, Loch Ard

Type: Exhibition

Date: 20th century

Subject: History, Social History, Television, Media & Film.
A Narrative Account of the Film “Rob Roy The Highland Rogue”

Place: Kinlochard, Loch Ard

Type: Article

Date: 20th century

Subject: History, Social History
Beautiful Aberfoyle in Poetry

Place: Aberfoyle

Type: Article

Date: 19th century

Subject: History, Humour, Literature
A short history of sailing on Loch Ard

Place: Loch Ard

Type: Article

Date: 20th century

Subject: History
Torlochan the house I live in.

Place: Kinlochard

Type: Article

Date: 20th century

Subject: History
The Spanish Influenza in Aberfoyle and its neighbours by James Kennedy.

Place: Aberfoyle, Inversnaid

Type: Article

Date: 20th century

Subject: History, Medicine & Public Health, Social History, WWI
Pony Trekkers in Queen Elizabeth Forest Park near Aberfoyle

Place: Aberfoyle

Type: Photograph

Date: 20th century

Subject: Environment & Landscape, Social History
The Unknown Soldier

Type: Article

Date: 20th century

Subject: History, WWI
Staff at the Baillie Nicol Jarvie Hotel, circa 1895

Place: Aberfoyle

Type: Photograph

Date: 19th century

Subject: Historic Buildings, Tourism