The early maps identify the area as dedicated to Coal Mining and there was a Meldrum Pit locally

Alexander Couper’s Dunipace Foundry stood on this site from 1907.

Muirsyde was a local place name recovered from a historic map.

Walter Alexander opened his bus transport company just before World War I and in 1924 moved into a highly successful coachbuilding business.  Now part of Alexander-Dennis. 

James Morris, known as ‘Fitz’ was raised in Polmont and attended Laurieston School. He served as a fighter pilot in World War 1 and was declared an Air Ace for downing so many enemy planes.  He was killed in an accident in the USA while on a recruitment drive.  He is buried in the Polmont Old Churchyard.

Name found on a historic map of Larbert.