In 1915 the train carrying soldiers bound for Gallipoli in Turkey crashed at Quintinshill near Gretna.  The troops had left Larbert station after a short period of training.   239 were killed. 

Alex Watters coached Gairdoch Utd who won the Scottish Junior Cup 3 times.  In 2015 he won the Scottish Football Association, Unsung Hero Award for his services to football. He continued coaching school children with coaching at schools well into his 80’s.

John G. Stein was the founder of one of the districts’ most famous and successful companies.  They manufactured fire bricks and building bricks for over a century. 

The gardens are located close to the River Carron.

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. 

Named in honour of all the moulders who served in the now disappeared local iron industry.