These cannot be used during take-off or landing, when flyers will have no choice but to listen to any bawling bairns.
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"Bairns [babies] not bombs" was a rallying cry of many SNP activists during the 2014 Scottish independence referendum campaign and still summarises the party&aposs approach to foreign affairs.
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An outfit called Shy Bairns publishes work by northern English artists in zines with names like The Only Pizza Shop Where I Live Burnt Down and Where's Your Coat You're Going to be Cold.
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The SNP is sympathetic to Mr Corbyn's views on foreign policy, adopting the toe-curling slogan "bairns [babies] not bombs" and campaigning for the removal of Britain's nuclear submarines from their base in Scotland.
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The children are the future, you see, and if the human race is going to make it we need to get our weans, bairns, ankle biters and tadpoles off the hard stuff and into the textbooks.
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Why are Falkirk people called 'bairns'?, Falkirk Local History Society. 2005. Retrieved 20 June 2012. This is reflected in the Falkirk Burgh motto: "Better meddle wi' the de'il than the Bairns o' Fa'kirk".
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Emery Bairns of Blues & Soul gave the album an 8 out of 10 rating.
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Once again a dull away performance saw Michael Higdon score the only goal as the Bairns' won 1–0.
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The club reached the second round in the first year that it competed.A Brief History – Part Two – 19th Century Bairns, bettermeddle.org.uk.
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Stead's Publishing House Series Books, kent.edu. Retrieved 25 August 2019.Books for the Bairns ("Review of Reviews" Office), publishinghistory.com. Retrieved 6 October 2019.
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He made 13 appearances, 11 in the league, but did not score during his time with the Bairns and returned to Wigan in January.
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After leaving the Bairns in the summer of 2020, he joined fellow Scottish League One side Dumbarton in July 2020 - teaming up with manager at Morton, Jim Duffy.
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In they went in the Saturday crush, full of soldiers, bairns, folk from the country, and an eident wife with a big shopping bag buying up tins of plums.
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Compare with the Swedish, Norwegian, Icelandic and Danish word for child "barn" or the West-Frisian "bern". Cain bairns are children seized by witches and warlocks as tribute for the devil.
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He also tipped him to earn a full Scotland cap. Gow marked his 81st and final appearance for the Bairns by scoring in a 3–0 win against relegated Dunfermline Athletic.
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Three years later she published her first book, but it was not until 1893 that she obtained her first success with her stories. Front cover of Bonnie Bairns (1889) by Ida Waugh In 1888 she published her first book, and the first collaboration with Ida Waugh, Bonny Bairns, with the Worthington & Co. firm of New York. In this book the usual order was reversed, and the pictures were illustrated with verses. The combination was not only pleasant but pretty.
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Cain bairns or kain bairns were infants who, according to Scottish superstition, were seized by warlocks and witches, and paid as a tax or tithe to the Devil. Càin is a Gaelic word for a tribute, tax or tithe, and is the origin of the Lowland Scots term, while "bairn" means a child. The word was in use along the Scottish Borders, according to Walter Scott's Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border. It is unconnected with Cain in the Bible.
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On 15 June 2016, Kidd signed for Scottish Championship club Falkirk. On 19 May 2018, he signed a contract extension to remain with the Bairns until the end of the 2018–19 season. Falkirk were relegated to Scottish League One after the final league match of the season, despite defeating league champions Ross County 3–2 at the Falkirk Stadium and Kidd was then released by the Bairns. On 25 June 2019, Kidd signed for Queen of the South for a second spell with the club.
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Stirlingshire Cup – 1883/84, Falkirk FC Historian. 14 February 2011. Retrieved 20 June 2012. The club's nickname is "The Bairns", a Scots word meaning sons or daughters, which is given to natives of the town of Falkirk.
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The minister in the 1780s was Rev Bennet.Williamsons Street Directory 1784 A famous and widely admired minister in the early 19th century (1805–1840) was the Reverend John Thomson, a notable painter and friend of Raeburn and Turner. He referred to his parishioners (and large family) as "ma bairns" and hence one possible explanation of the popular Scottish expression "We’re a' Jock Tamson’s bairns". [Note the plaque opposite the church.) He was replaced in 1841 by James Macfarlane FRSE DD (1808-1866), who was Moderator of the General Assembly in 1865.
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13, no. 52 (April 1899), pp. 168–172. The dead are remembered by the song (and pipe tune) "Flowers of the Forest": ::We'll hae nae mair lilting, at the yowe-milking, ::Women and bairns are dowie and wae.
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He had married twice but had no recognised children surviving at the time of his death, and he left the bulk of his estate to found a hospital to care for "faitherless bairns" (orphaned children) in his home city.
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In June 2019, Buchanan signed for home-town club Falkirk. Buchanan departed the Bairns at the end of the 2019-20 season, after being appointed club captain that season. On 24 August 2020, Buchanan signed for Queen of the South.
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As a mark of respect for a former Falkirk youth team player, Craig Gowans, who died in a tragic accident at the club's old training ground in July 2005, Bairns manager John Hughes asked Gowans' father, John, to lead out the team at Hampden Park.
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Becky and Rachel Unthank with Niopha Keegan at TFF Rudolstadt, 2009 Their follow-up album, The Bairns, released on 20 August 2007, was nominated for the Best Album award at the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards 2008 and was runner-up for the 2008 Mercury Prize. The album debuted in the UK Top 200 Albums Chart at number 178 in the week after the Mercury Prize award ceremony. Reviewing The Bairns for BBC Music, Mel Ledgard described it as "an album with a cinematic quality, huge in dramatic atmosphere". In a four-starred review, Robin Denselow of The Guardian nominated it as "one of the folk records of the year".
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The Bairns was nominated for the Best Album award at the BBC Folk Awards 2008 and was also nominated for the 2008 Mercury Prize. The album debuted in the UK Top 200 Albums Chart at number 178 in the week after the Mercury Prize award ceremony.
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On 31 January 2008, Supple, along with teammate Billy Clarke joined Scottish Premier League club Falkirk on loan.Falkirk sign Ipswich youngsters, BBC Sport, 31 January 2008. Supple was signed due to the injury to Falkirk's first choice goalkeeper Tim Krul, where he made four appearances for the Bairns.
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On 15 June 2005, free agent Lima joined Scottish Premier League side Falkirk alongside compatriot Tiago Jonas, being discovered by the club's player-coach Russell Latapy, who spent several seasons in Portugal as a player.Falkirk move for Portuguese pair; BBC Sport, 15 June 2005 He made his official debut on 6 August, playing the full 90 minutes in a 2–0 away win against Livingston.Livingston 0–2 Falkirk; BBC Sport, 6 August 2005 On 28 April 2006, Lima extended his contract with the Bairns for a further season.Midfield duo extend Bairns stay; BBC Sport, 28 April 2006 He left the club in the 2007 summer after having appeared in 42 competitive games (30 starts), hoping to "return to Portugal".
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This is a showcase of Campbell and Francis's songwriting. "If I should meet my Maker" is influenced by the life of her grandfather Duncan Campbell. "Jock Tamson's Bairns" is in the Scot's dialect and speaks of the darker side of Edinburgh. Campbell has collaborated with other musicians throughout her life.
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In response, Gibson said he was treated as a scapegoat by Pressley and criticised him for dishing the dirt on him in public. At the end of the season Gibson's contract was not renewed and he departed the club, having played 12 league matches for the Bairns, scoring one league goal.
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A Brief History – Part Seven – Underachieving Bairns, bettermeddle.org.uk. Retrieved 20 June 2012. In the 1996–97 season, the club reached the final of the Scottish Cup for the third time, and Falkirk became the seventh club in 106 years to reach the final whilst competing outside the top league of Scottish football.
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Dawson was CEO of Shaftesbury Young People. In April 2009 he was appointed chief executive of the British Association of Social Workers. Hilton left BASW in January 2013 by mutual agreement and now runs his own company called Northumbria People. In March 2013 he published Frank Renner's Bairns - Looking at the world through the lives of a Northumbrian Family.
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Gibson scored his first goal versus the Doonhamers in the 36th minute on 25 February 2012. After being substituted versus Raith Rovers on 21 April 2012 Gibson stormed out of the Falkirk Stadium. After the match, Gibson apologised for his actions. However, Falkirk manager Steven Pressley said that Gibson would never play for the Bairns ever again.
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James began his career at Falkirk in 1993, making 48 appearances and scoring nine goals in his six years with the Bairns. In 1999, he moved to one of his hometown clubs, Hearts, for whom he only made 14 appearances in two years. In 2001, he was loaned out to Airdrieonians. He joined on a permanent basis later that year.
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Rudden began his career with Rangers and joined the first-team for pre-season before the start of the 2018-19 season for the first time. In August 2018, Rudden moved out on loan to Falkirk. On 15 September 2018, Rudden scored on his Bairns debut. On 23 August 2019 Rudden moved on loan to EFL League Two side Plymouth Argyle.
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Bairn is a Scots, Scottish English, and Northern English term for a child. It originated in Old English as "bearn", becoming chiefly Scottish c. 1700. A man with "his boat and bairns" in a calotype print from the 1840s, now in the National Galleries of Scotland. The word was included in the English Dialect Dictionary with variant spellings barn, bayn, bayne that reflect varying pronunciations.
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Following his departure from St Johnstone, McCracken joined Falkirk on a one-year contract. After a brief struggle with an injury at the beginning of the season, McCracken quickly established himself in the Falkirk side. Following a successful season, on 1 May 2014, he agreed a new one-year contract with The Bairns, running until 2015. McCracken was released by Falkirk in May 2017.
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From 2004 until 2008 she was a member of Rachel Unthank and the Winterset (now The Unthanks). Nic Oliver, reviewing their 2007 album The Bairns for musicOMH, described O'Hooley as "the ace in the pack throughout The Bairns. Her background in cabaret (intriguingly, she had once appeared on Stars In Their Eyes impersonating Annie Lennox) adds a left-field edge to the music, with her jazzy piano chords lending a sing-along feel to the live favourite Blue's Gaen Oot O'The Fashion. O'Hooley also contributes the two original tracks to the album, although the casual listener could quite easily mistake both Blackbird and WhitehornThe song is actually called "Whitethorn", as O'Hooley explains in an interview with David Peschek: "It's about my great- grandmother, struggling to survive in a tiny village in Ireland...She was pregnant 15 or 16 times and only two babies survived.
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He finished his first season with five appearances the last three of which were starts. On 21 November 2009 he scored his only competitive goal for the Bairns. This 20-yard free kick was in a 2–0 home win against Hamilton Academical for a first league win of the season. Mitchell moved to Ayr United on loan on 22 January 2010 for the rest of the season.
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He made his Falkirk debut at left-back in a 2–0 defeat to Queen of the South at Palmerston Park on 8 February 2014. In his spell at Falkirk, he made a total of 11 appearances. He was injured for the Bairns' Scottish Premiership play-off campaign, meaning his last appearance came in a 3–1 home win against Alloa on 3 May 2014. Afterwards, he returned to Celtic.
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After leaving Dundee United, Houston joined Celtic as a scout in December 2013. Houston later says his time at Celtic was a positive one for him because they "were fantastic to work for". After eight months at the club, Houston was appointed manager of Falkirk in June 2014, succeeding Gary Holt. He led the "Bairns" to the 2015 Scottish Cup Final, which Falkirk lost 2–1 to Inverness Caledonian Thistle.
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Jane Eyre, 1847, p.264 In Scotland a rhyme from the same period is recorded as ::Dowdy-cow, dowdy-cow, ride away heame, ::Thy house is burnt, and thy bairns are tean.Notes & Queries 9, 29 December 1849, p.132 American names include “ladybug”, first recorded in 1699,Merriam Webster dictionary although the equivalent rhyme is not mentioned until the 19th century, as in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876).
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Ryan Michael McStay (born 4 December 1985 in Bellshill, Scotland), is a Scottish professional footballer who plays for St Roch's FC. McStay has previously played in the Scottish Premier League for Falkirk. McStay started his career with Falkirk at U16 D-Form level, before playing for Partick Thistle, Dumbarton and Albion Rovers. McStay also had a loan spell at Queen of the South when he was at the Bairns.
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Snoddy, Page 172 A drawing of 1923 shows the three courses of stone or brick as a 'U' shape pierced by an overflow pipe that passed the holy waters into an old rectangular porcelain sink set into the ground. The drawing shows a shrub growing across the boulder behind the well.Brotchie, Page 39 The water were said to be used to cure 'back-gane' bairns, that is those who were not thriving.
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He was bought by Falkirk in August 1958 for £3,300."John White" Scottish Football Hall of Fame 2005 Alex Parker and Eddie O'Hara had been jointly sold to Everton the June before giving Falkirk a cash injection of £18,000."Bairns mourn passing of another 1957 Falkirk cup hero" The Falkirk Herald 16 October 2016 Among others at Falkirk, White played alongside Doug Moran. In White's 30 Falkirk league appearances he scored 11 goals.
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Finnigan was born in Jarrow, Tyne and Wear. As a youngster, he played for Jarrow F.C.'s under-age teams before joining Newcastle United. He scored 56 goals for Newcastle's reserve and academy teams from 102 starts and 20 substitute appearances, but never appeared in a competitive first-team game. Finnigan joined Scottish Premier League club Falkirk on 23 January 2007, replacing Anthony Stokes who had left the "Bairns" to sign for Sunderland.
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McGhee moved to Scottish Championship club Falkirk in August 2017 for an undisclosed transfer fee. He made his debut two days later on 2 September 2017, starting at centre-back as his new side defeated Sligo Rovers in the Challenge Cup 2-1. McGhee was named as team captain in January 2019. Despite the team's best efforts, the Bairns were relegated to the Scottish League One at the end of the 2018–19 season.
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Sinnamon started his career at Rangers, playing for the Under-20 side. In June 2015, he signed a contract extension with Rangers and two months later joined Falkirk on loan for six months. Whilst with the Bairns, Sinnamon made his Falkirk, and senior professional debut, in a Scottish Championship match against Dumbarton on 24 October 2015. However, he did not feature for Falkirk again due to injury and returned to Rangers in January 2016.
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Shephard married Lily Jane Alexander in 1923, and they raised a family of two sons and a daughter. He became Chairman and Managing Director of Bairns-Wear Ltd, and was Master of the South Notts Hounds. In 1941, he was appointed High Sheriff of Nottinghamshire, and during the Second World War, he acted as Army Welfare Officer, from 1939 until 1947. He also commanded the Newark Home Guard Battalion between 1940 and 1943.
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Hagen began his career with Rangers, where he played 20 competitive games, before moving to Hearts. He then moved to hometown team Falkirk. He stayed for five years, making over 100 appearances for the Bairns including the 1997 Scottish Cup final. He scored the only goal in the 1997 Scottish Challenge Cup Final win against Queen of the South F.C. He then joined Livingston, where he won the Scottish First Division title.
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During this period Flannigan sustained an elbow injury that required surgery and he departed the club at the end of his contract. On 20 November 2012, Flannigan then went on trial at Falkirk and played in an under 20's match versus Hibernian. On 22 February 2013, following his successful trial, Flannigan signed for the Bairns. On 7 May 2013, after only three appearances, he departed the club, along with another four players.
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The third project in the Blood franchise, the series follows Saya Kisaragi as she fights monsters called the Elder Bairns. It was directed by Tsutomu Mizushima and produced by Production I.G. The characters were designed by manga artist group Clamp. All episodes were co-written by Clamp member Nanase Ohkawa and Blood+ director Junichi Fujisaku. Blood-C premiered in the late night slot on Mainichi Broadcasting System (MBS) and Tokyo Broadcasting System (TBS).
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Quhen all was gaine, I micht mak na debeat, Bot with my bairns past for till beg my meat. Now haue I tald ȝow the black veritie, How I am brocht into this miserie. DILIGENCE: How did the person, was he not thy gude friend? PAUPER: The devil stick him, he curst me for my teind, And halds me ȝit vnder that same proces, That gart me want the Sacrament at Pasche.
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On 31 January 2012 STV reported on their website that Gibson had signed for Falkirk. This was not officially confirmed until 2 February 2012 when the club revealed Gibson had signed until the end of the season. After the move, Gibson said his move to the Bairns could revive his career after experiencing a difficult spell at Crawley Town. Gibson debuted versus Greenock Morton at Cappielow on 11 February 2012, appearing as a substitute.
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McManus signed for Falkirk in August 2006, but after playing a largely peripheral role in the first half of the 2006–07 season, he was released by the Bairns. Four weeks later, McManus signed a short-term contract with Dunfermline for the remainder of the current season. He scored two goals in six games. In June, he signed a new two-year deal at East End Park despite interest from at least three other SPL clubs.
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The Stop the War Committee was an anti-war organisation that opposed the Second Boer War. It was formed by William Thomas Stead in 1899.Biography of W.T. Stead, W.T. Stead and his "Books for the Bairns", Sally Wood-Lamont, Salvia Books, Edinburgh, 1987 Its president was John CliffordJohn Clifford , in A Dictionary of Methodism in Britain and Ireland, John Vickers and prominent members included Lloyd George and Keir Hardie. The group was generally seen as pro-Boer.
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A Brief History – Part Nine – Top Flight Bairns, bettermeddle.org.uk. Retrieved 29 June 2012. Despite its cup success, Falkirk finished in 10th place in the league and avoided relegation with a 1–0 win against Inverness Caledonian Thistle. The following season, the club competed in the Europa League but was relegated from the SPL to the First Division after being held to a 0–0 draw against Kilmarnock on the final day of the 2009–10 season.
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The Bairns was the second album by Rachel Unthank and the Winterset (now the Unthanks), which then comprised Rachel Unthank, her younger sister Becky, pianist Belinda O'Hooley and fiddle player Niopha Keegan. Produced by Adrian McNally and released by Rabble Rouser on 20 August 2007, it was nominated for the Best Album award at the 2008 BBC Folk Awards and was also nominated for the 2008 Mercury Prize. It received a four-starred review in The Guardian.
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He spent three years with the Bairns before spending a single season (1998–99) with Dunfermline Athletic, brief period with Portadown in the Irish League during the 1999–00 season and a month with Partick Thistle. Ferguson next had a short spell in Australian soccer with Adelaide Force before returning to Scotland to play for a succession of lower league clubs, namely Ross County, Clydebank (scoring once against future club Hamilton), Alloa Athletic, Hamilton Academical and finally Raith Rovers.
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Today, the stumps of the original bridge piers are still visible above the surface of the Tay even at high tide. In 2005 a new musical play by Scottish playwright Mike Gibb with music by Mairi Paton titled Five Pound and Twa Bairns premiered in Dundee. It focuses on three fictional women from very different backgrounds who lose men in the disaster. It has gone on to have several further productions including three separate sold out runs at Dundee Rep Theatre.
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The Bairns were also struggling though, and ended the season bottom of the First Division and relegated. When Miller could not secure promotion the following year, finishing 9-point behind the second promotion place, his time at Brockville came to an end. Hamilton Academical was Miller's next port of call, where he worked as commercial manager from 1984. On two occasions he fulfilled the role of caretaker manager, after the departure of Jim Dempsey in 1989 and John Lambie in 1990.
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Higgins played a key role at keeping Celtic at bay and was a standout for the Bairns, saying after the game "no one can take that away from me, I loved every minute of it and knowing my family was here and my best mate Barry who is a mad hoops fan was sitting watching back in Australia makes me very proud"; however, they eventually went down one–nil. He departed Scotland on 24 January 2007 to join Israeli side Maccabi Herzliya.
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Reid guest featured on many other artists recordings including the ninth to twelfth volumes of the twelve volume series of Linn Records The Complete Songs of Robert Burns. He appeared on other works such as the Hamish Henderson tribute album, A The Bairns O Adam and Life in the Kingdom which was with the children of Fife primary schools. In 2005 he won the "Scots Singer of the Year" award,Handsupfortrad.co.uk and Reid regularly played at festivals until he was diagnosed with dementia.
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Millar played a pivotal role in helping The Bairns reach the play-offs, putting in many fantastic performances in the centre of the park. He was the scorer of a last minute penalty against Queen of the South on 23 February 2014, that put Falkirk clear in third place. His last appearance in his second spell at Falkirk came in a 1–0 (2–1 on aggregate) defeat to Hamilton in the Scottish Premiership Play-Off Semi-Final 2nd leg.
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Kevin Moffat is a Scottish footballer, who plays for the Cobram soccer club in the Goulburn North Eastern Soccer Association in northern Victoria, Australia. Moffat started his career with Falkirk, and made his first team debut on the opening day of the 2007/08 season in a 4-0 win over Gretna. On 31 January 2008, Moffat moved to Stirling Albion for a month's loan deal to gain useful first team experience. At the Bino's, he was involved in 3 matches before returning to the Bairns.
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In summer 2010, Barnett was on trial with Scottish First Division side Falkirk and assisted one of the goals in the Bairns' 2-1 friendly win over Northwich Victoria but failed to win a contract, citing the club's finance. Instead, he joined Accrington Stanley on a twelve-month contract on 4 August 2010. Upon joining the club, Barnett was given a number eight shirt for the side. Barnett made his Accrington Stanley debut on 7 August 2010 in the opening match of the season against Aldershot Town.
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David Gillespie Weir (born 10 May 1970) is a Scottish football coach and former professional player. Born in Falkirk, Weir played as a defender, and began his professional career with his home-town club, Falkirk, after having attended the University of Evansville in the United States. After four seasons with the Bairns, Weir then moved on to Heart of Midlothian where he won the 1998 Scottish Cup. He joined Everton in 1999 and spent seven years with the club, becoming club captain under two different managers.
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However, the residue of the estate, some £23,625, was left to the city of Edinburgh, to establish a hospital for the free education of the "puir, faitherless bairns" of deceased Edinburgh burgesses. Front (north) view of Heriot's Hospital Heriot's Hospital was begun in 1628, and duly constructed outside the city walls of Edinburgh, immediately to the south of Edinburgh Castle, adjacent to Greyfriars Kirk.Steven 1872, pp. 46–47 It was completed just in time to be occupied by Oliver Cromwell's forces during the English Civil War.
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In January 2019, McGrath signed for Scottish Championship club Queen of the South, after a successful two week trial. McGrath debuted on February 2, 2019 in a 3–0 league defeat versus the Bairns at the Falkirk Stadium. In August 2019, McGrath signed for National Independent Soccer Association club Philadelphia Fury for the league's inaugural season. In September 2019, McGrath signed for USL Championship club OKC Energy FC. In February 2020, McGrath signed for Chattanooga FC ahead of its inaugural season in the National Independent Soccer Association.
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On 30 January 2014, Beck joined Falkirk in the Scottish Championship on loan until the end of the season. He teamed up with former strike-partner Rory Loy at 'The Bairns'. He quickly struck up a strong partnership with Loy, and after two substitute appearances, settled into a starting berth in the Falkirk team. He added another dimension to Falkirk's play; he offered them an out ball, someone who could hold the ball up and help his team get out to support Loy and himself up front.
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Aitken was born in Edinburgh in 1752, the son of a whitesmith and the eighth of twelve children. The early death of his father allowed Aitken to enter the charitable school for impoverished children at George Heriot's Hospital, which was founded to care for the "puir, faitherless bairns" (Scots: poor, fatherless children) of Edinburgh. Upon leaving school at age 14, he tried his hand at a variety of low-paying trades, including painter apprenticeship in 1767,Warner, Jessica. The Incendiary: The Misadventures of John The Painter, First Modern Terrorist.
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After working in a bank on leaving school, Irvine began his professional career with Falkirk in 1983, aged 18. During his spell with the Bairns, he became an evangelical Christian. After two years and nearly forty league appearances at Brockville, Irvine moved to Aberdeen, the team he had supported as a child, for a fee of £110,000. During twelve years with the Dons, Irvine made over 350 appearances in all competitions, gradually becoming a regular in the defence alongside Alex McLeish as veteran captain Willie Miller's career came to an end.
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Irvine began his career with Blackburn United, but was also on Schoolboy forms with Hibernian, before signing at 16 on professional forms until 18. Irvine failed to make a senior appearance for the Easter Road side and moved to Whitburn Juniors, before joining Falkirk in 1983. After four years, and over 100 league appearances for the Bairns, Irvine moved to Liverpool. However, he made just four appearances during his time on Merseyside, one of which was as a second-half substitute in Liverpool's League Cup quarter-final win against Everton at Goodison Park.
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He continued to be a mainstay in the Falkirk team that had a fantastic season finishing 2nd in the 2015/16 Scottish Championship, making 46 appearances across all competitions. On 22 August 2015, he scored what would go on to be voted Falkirk's goal of the season in a 2–1 win against Livingston at Almondvale. On 19 February 2016, Leahy penned a one-year extension with Falkirk, keeping him at the club until the summer of 2017. Leahy left the Bairns in May 2017, following the expiration of his contract.
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He said his aim was for the club to win the Scottish Championship Throughout the season he became renowned for his hard work and composed finishing, and this helped him build a strong rapport with The Bairns faithful. Loy was nominated along with Peter MacDonald, Anthony Andreu and Kane Hemmings for the PFA Championship Player of the Year for season 2013–14, but lost out to Hemmings. However, on 27 April 2014, he was awarded the Falkirk Supporters Player of the Year, along with the Players Player of the Year, capping an overall superb campaign.
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Milne's first season at Firhill was successful, the Jags exceeding expectations of relegation from the SPL by finishing 10th. Milne himself was converted to a leftback/left-sided centreback by manager John Lambie, and made numerous first team appearances in his new position. Partick struggled following Lambie's retirement though, and following successive relegations in 2003–04 and 2004–05, Milne moved to newly promoted Falkirk. Milne enjoyed relative success at the Falkirk Stadium in 2005–06, playing regularly as the Bairns reaffirmed their top-flight status, as well as notching his first SPL goal.
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John "Ian" Hunter is a Scottish former footballer who played mainly as a left back, primarily for Falkirk where he played for a decade,John Hunter (Ian), Better MeddleFalkirk: 1946/47 - 2013/14, Post War English & Scottish Football League A - Z Player's Transfer Database with his colleague at right-back typically being John Lambie.The Falkirk Bairns Volume 5 2007-2019 (In Memoriam: John Lambie), Michael White, There was another Ian Hunter who also played briefly for Falkirk in the same period, but was more closely associated with Dunfermline Athletic.
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He moved back to Scotland at the age of 36, joining Aberdeen in November 1950 and made his Dons debut in a 5–1 defeat of Falkirk. A year later he joined the Bairns, where he spent three seasons. In January 1954, Derry City paid £1,500 to sign him, a record fee for the Irish Football League, remarkable in that he was by this stage 39 years old. Two years later he joined Cork Athletic as player-manager before eventually retiring after a season with Highland League Elgin City in 1957.
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Mooth O the Yooth, is a local non-profit group, managed by and for local youths, with support from Fife Council workers, community wardens and community police officers. The 'Moothies' aim to provide and set up activities for other youths in the area. Activities and successes include arranging the 'Bairns Ball' (a youth disco), which is held on a monthly basis in Lochgelly. The Moothies obtained a Youth Shelter (an open steel construction, similar to a bus shelter, with a seating area and roof to provide some shelter), located at the bottom of Lochgelly Public Park.
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He signed for Falkirk in the summer of 2012, after trials with Birmingham City, Bradford City and Peterborough United. He was signed by Steven Pressley originally as an attacking midfielder, despite the fact he had played left-back for Rugby Town the previous season. He made his first team début in the Scottish Challenge Cup against Stirling Albion on 28 July 2012. His league debut came in September against Cowdenbeath at Central Park as a substitute in the 72nd minute of the game. On 10 November 2012, he scored his first goal for The Bairns against Raith Rovers at Stark's Park.
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In July 2013, Loy started training with Scottish First Division side Falkirk and played as a trialist in a friendly against Forfar, scoring both goals as the Bairns won 2–1. He also played in Falkirk's 2–2 friendly draw with Dunfermline. Loy signed a two-year contract with Falkirk on 31 July 2013. Loy quickly established himself in the Falkirk side, scoring a double in his first home appearance against Greenock Morton on 17 August 2013. Loy scored his first hat trick for Falkirk in a 5–0 win against Cowdenbeath on 5 April 2014.
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Stewart Murdoch (born 9 May 1990) is professional footballer playing as a midfielder / defender for East Fife. Murdoch came through the youth academy at Falkirk, and over a six-year period played 88 games in all competitions for The Bairns, in which the majority of these came in the Scottish First Division. He also spent time on loan in the Scottish Second Division playing for Berwick Rangers in season 2007–08 and for East Fife in seasons 2009–10 and 2010–11. Murdoch played for Fleetwood Town in English Football League One and English Football League Two from 2013 until 2015.
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Moutinho was close to sealing a transfer to Kayserispor, but the deal was not concluded before the closure of the Turkish transfer window in early 2008. On 21 May, he eventually left Falkirk and signed a return to his country as he re-joined Marítimo. He remarked "I am going to keep the house I have in Falkirk and hopefully I’ll be back. I feel now is the right move for me with a two-year contract but after that I will be a free agent again and who knows"– signalling his intent to return to the Bairns in the future.
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However, he fell from favour within months of his move to Burnden Park and spent part of the 1993–94 season on loan to Peterborough United before returning to Scotland at its conclusion, in a £100,000 move to Falkirk. The Bairns enjoyed a profitable first season back in the Premier Division, challenging for European qualification and eventually finishing fifth, only six points behind 2nd place Motherwell. Fulton re-established himself as a first-team player, playing 33 times during the campaign. In July 1995, Jim Jefferies resigned as Falkirk manager to take-over at Heart of Midlothian and Fulton was one of the first players he signed for the Edinburgh club.
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In his country, Jonas never played in higher than the third division. On 15 June 2005, the free agent joined Scottish Premier League side Falkirk alongside compatriot Vítor Lima, being discovered by the club's player-coach Russell Latapy, who spent several seasons in Portugal as a player.Falkirk move for Portuguese pair; BBC Sport, 15 June 2005 He made his official debut on 6 August, playing the full 90 minutes in a 2–0 away win against Livingston.Livingston 0–2 Falkirk; BBC Sport, 6 August 2005 On 29 May 2006, Jonas was awarded a new one-year contract with the Bairns, after having played in 37 competitive games in his first season.
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The original burial ground was restricted to an area to the south-west, now a small mound in relation to the rest of the churchyard. This was latterly known as the "Bairns' Knowe" (children's hill) as it was often used for burial of children. Records show that this was open to the countryside until 1597, and sheep and horses would graze here. A wall was then built around the churchyard.Parish Records In 1701 ground was added to the west and north-west, concurrent with a refurbishment of the church, which is recorded as having been somewhat derelict since the period of the English Civil War.
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Taiwo joined Scottish Championship side Falkirk in July 2014 after manager Peter Houston sought to add experience to his midfield. He scored three goals in 41 appearances for the "Bairns" in the 2014–15 season, including one at Ibrox Stadium that effectively ended Rangers's chances of beating his former club Hibernian into second place. Falkirk also reached the 2015 Scottish Cup Final, where they lost 2–1 to Inverness Caledonian Thistle at Hampden Park. He played 27 games in the 2015–16 season as Falkirk posted a second-place finish, before they lost 4–1 on aggregate to Kilmarnock in the play-off final.
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Lancelot Cayley Shadwell (26 April 1882 – 28 October 1963) was an English writer, lyricist, and ceramicist. He wrote the lyrics to a host of popular songs, published three collections of his poetry, and contributed to the popular monthly series Books for the Bairns, published by W.T Stead to provide affordable literature to children and adults. During World War I, he helped launch and nurture one of the most successful concert parties of the war: the Diamond Troupe of the 29th Division. In the mid-1920s, Shadwell co-founded the Broadstone Potters—a small but influential producer of studio pottery with links to some of the most important figures in British ceramics.
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From early on, Lancelot was drawn to the arts—and to the literary arts, in particular. His interest may have sprung from his adolescence in Frome, where he grew up not far from the town's Scientific and Literary Institute (today's Frome Museum). By the outbreak of the First World War, Shadwell, then in his early 30s, could already point to a number of publishing successes. In 1909, he wrote a short children's story entitled Curly's Trip to Toyland and his Visit to the Clockmen, which was issued as part of the popular monthly series, Books for the Bairns, and illustrated by Irish artist Brinsley Le Fanu and AG Addision.
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He started his professional footballing career in the NSL with Canberra Cosmos and later returning to Queensland with Brisbane Strikers. In the relaunched A-League, he secured a deal with Queensland Roar in 2005, before moving to Europe in June 2006 to join Scottish Premier League club Falkirk. A difference of opinion with Falkirk boss John Hughes ended his stay in Scotland with the "Bairns" in a good position at sixth in the SPL and through to the semi finals of the League Cup. Before departing Scotland Higgins stated it was a boyhood dream to play against his much loved Glasgow Celtic at Parkhead on 23 December 2006.
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Signing a two-year with Scottish side Falkirk following his release from Coventry in August 2006, with the Bairns' medical staff satisfied with his rehabilitation after his serious knee injury the previous season. Once again though, Barrett suffered further injuries, requiring an operation on his knee in October 2006. He returned to action for the 2007–08 season, going on to sign a one-year contract extension in March 2008. After three operations and later being informed that his injury had been misdiagnosed, Barrett left Falkirk after manager John Hughes sat him down and told him he would never be the player he was before suffering his injuries.
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Her works are in the permanent collections of the Leeds Art Gallery and the Duke of Buccleuch among others. In 2010 she was the subject of a monograph by Ann Matheson: The Bairns O Adam: The Paintings of Sheila Mullen. Stenlake Publishing Retrieved 30 May 2011Amazon.co.uk Retrieved 30 May 2011 In 2006 she collaborated with the group of Scottish writers called the Crichton WritersCrichton Writers in a project called The Art of Ballads and Bards: An Anthology of Work by the Crichton Writers and Art by Sheila Mullen resulting in a published volume documenting the series of workshops and sessions between the writers and Mullen.
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The Leadenhall Press published many prominent (and also many forgotten) writers and artists of the time. Wilfrid Meynell acted as a literary advisor, writing and editing several books under the pseudonym 'John Oldcastle,’ and the Press published the first books by Jerome K. Jerome. Other authors included Andrew Lang, Egyptologist W. M. Flinders Petrie, Lady Florence Dixie (feminist sister of the infamous Marquess of Queensberry), Max O'Rell, Louis Fagan of the British Museum, J. A. Fuller Maitland, Grant Allen, and Count Eric Stenbock. Oscar Wilde appeared in the poetry collection A Book of Jousts in 1888, and his mother, Lady Jane Wilde contributed to the periodical Bairns' Annual.
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He was ordained in St Andrew's Cathedral, Glasgow in 1944 and celebrated his first Mass at St Aloysius' Church. Combining priesthood and music, he undertook tours of North America and Australia, where those concerts helping to provide funding for the building of St Columba's Cathedral in Oban. He helped with funds to renovate the Church of St Margaret's in Lochgilphead, in Argyll, where he was parish priest for 17 years. In the Scottish summer of 1947, MacEwan arranged for Australian and New Zealand food parcels which he distributed around the parish: :If these good people could see the poor wee bairns enjoying the contents of the parcels, they would be well rewarded for their great kindness.
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Alexander Stewart was a Scottish footballer who played as a goalkeeper. His longest spell was with Falkirk (winning the Scottish Cup with the Bairns in 1913), with other clubs including Partick Thistle, St Johnstone and Arbroath.The Hawthorns Series, Scottish Sport History, October 2014 He was selected once for the Scottish Football League XI in 1919 while at Partick Thistle,SFL player Alex Stewart, London Hearts Supporters ClubThistle humbled at Birmingham, Dundee Courier, 24 February 1919, via Partick Thistle History Archive having featured for the Scotland Junior international team in 1908 which helped to launch his career. On both occasions, his team were well beaten by their English opponents but Stewart was praised for his performance.
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Robson had initially been reluctant to use his name to raise money, but did so invoking the Geordie idiom, "Shy bairns (children) get nothing". The foundation is a UK registered charity, and is based in Swalwell village, Tyne and Wear. The Foundation operates in an area stretching north to Northumbria, south to Sunderland, and west to Cumbria, and supports the activities of the Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. The Foundation is registered with the Charity Commission as the Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Charity The idea for the foundation came about after Sir Bobby was told by his doctor that an upcoming NHS cancer research centre had no funds in place for equipment.
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'Calderwood, vol. 3, p. 643 The indignity caused the king to burst into tears, whereupon Glamis made the unsympathetic comment, 'Better bairns greet than bearded men.' After the king's escape from the Ruthven raiders at St Andrews in August 1583, Glamis was ordered to enter into ward in Dumbarton Castle within three days,Calderwood, vol. 4. 724; Register Privy Council of Scotland, vol. 3, 595 but made his escape to Ireland.History of James the Sext, 199. On 31 January 1583-4 he was charged to leave Scotland, England, and Ireland under pain of treason and on 29 March his adherents and those of the other banished lords were commanded to leave Edinburgh within twenty-four hours.
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Born in Glasgow, McNaught began his career in the Junior grade. He represented Scotland at that level in 1911 while playing for Cambuslang Rangers, where he won the Glasgow Junior League and his teammates included future Liverpool goalkeeper Kenny Campbell. In summer 1910 he signed for Falkirk as a replacement for Jock Simpson who had moved to Blackburn Rovers; at the time, the Brockville Park outfit were one of the top clubs in Scotland having finished runners-up in the Scottish Football League in 1909–10 and third in 1910–11. With the Bairns, McNaught lifted the Scottish Cup after a 2–0 win over Raith Rovers in the 1913 final at Celtic Park.
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Taylor began his career with Dundee United and played over thirty league games for the Tannadice team before leaving for Hamilton Academical in 1986. During his time at Douglas Park, Taylor picked up a Scottish First Division winners' medal and was crowned the SPFA Players' Player of the Year for the First Division before heading to Walsall in 1988. Taylor returned to Scotland in 1990 with Falkirk and went on to make just over fifty league appearances for the Bairns. After spending the latter part of the 1992-93 season on loan at Partick Thistle, Taylor moved there permanently after the summer, playing sixty-three league matches over a two-year period.
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Statue of George Heriot in the quadrangle On his death in 1624, George Heriot left around 25,000 Pound Scots - equivalent to several tens of millions today - to found a "hospital" (then the name for this kind of charitable school) to care for the "puir, faitherless bairns" (Scots: poor, fatherless children) of Edinburgh. The construction of Heriot's Hospital (as it was first called) was begun in 1628, just outside the city walls of Edinburgh. It was completed in time to be occupied by Oliver Cromwell's English forces during the invasion of Scotland during the Third English Civil War. When the building was used as a barracks, Cromwell's forces stabled their horses in the chapel.
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The Tears for Fears song "I Believe" from their 1985 album Songs from the Big Chair was originally written by bandmember Roland Orzabal for Wyatt, and is dedicated to him. As a further tribute to Wyatt, on the B-side of the single, Orzabal performs a cover version of "Sea Song", from the Rock Bottom album. This recording later appeared on the compilation album Saturnine Martial & Lunatic and the remastered versions of Songs from the Big Chair. "Sea Song" was also covered by Rachel Unthank and the Winterset on their 2007 album The Bairns, and The Guardians David Peschek said of the cover: "That’s the best version of that I’ve ever heard".
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When Burnley got promoted to the Premier League in May 2009 via the play-offs, MacDonald struggled to fight for a place in the team and joined Scottish Premier League side Falkirk on a six-month loan in July. He made his debut for the Bairns on 16 July 2009 in the Europa League second qualifying round tie first leg tie against FC Vaduz of Liechtenstein, starting the match in a 1–0 win. He made thirteen appearances in all competitions during his stay with the Scottish club, scoring no goals before returning to Turf Moor in January 2010. He suffered a double hernia injury towards the end of the season and did not feature for the rest of the campaign.
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Daily Record June 1967. Also reprinted in Mojo magazine Nov 1994 and Clouds website Among the Marquee audience was future superstar David Bowie, who said, when interviewed by Record Mirror in 1967, that they were "three thistle and haggis voiced bairns [who] had the audacity to face a mob of self-opinionated hippies with a brand of unique pop music which, because of its intolerance of mediocrity, floated, as would a Hogarth cartoon in Beano". It was around this time Ritchie introduced the then-unknown Bowie to Jimi Hendrix.Bowie exhibition at the V & A 2013 Later, in 1994, speaking about the 1-2-3 treatment of his own song ("I Dig Everything"), Bowie said that "the song was radically altered, yet retained its heart and soul".
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He made his Falkirk debut, and his first appearance in a senior league, as a second-half substitute against Kilmarnock on 27 January 2007. The forward scored his first Bairns' goal three weeks later against Rangers, when he "played a neat one-two with Gow and drilled a shot beyond McGregor from the edge of the penalty area". In the 2008–09 season, he played a major role, scoring twice and winning a penalty, in Falkirk's 4–0 victory over rivals Inverness Caledonian Thistle in what proved a successful fight against relegation. He also scored the winner against the same opposition to take Falkirk through to the semi- final of the Scottish Cup, and had a goal disallowed in the Cup Final.
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Retrieved 17 February 2017. Every year the village hosts a 1940s weekend where locals and visitors don wartime attire for a host of nostalgic events.Haworth 1940s Weekend 2016, unknown 2016 date. Retrieved 17 February 2017. From 1971 to 1988, 25 and 27 Main Street housed the Haworth Pottery where Anne Shaw produced hand-thrown domestic stoneware derived from the arts & crafts tradition. She exhibited widely in the UK and USA in public and private exhibitions and received an arts association award for her ceramic sculptures. Her husband, Robert Shaw, depicted life (and prominent residents) in the village in the 1970s and 80s, in two collections of satires, The Wrath Valley Anthology, 1981, and Grindley's Bairns,1988, praised by The Times Literary Supplement.
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Here's the Tender Coming, the third album by English folk group the Unthanks, and the first under The Unthanks moniker, was released in the United Kingdom on 14 September 2009 and in North America on 23 March 2010. It was Folk Album of the Year for Mojo and received four-starred reviews from The Observer and The Guardian. In the sleeve notes for the album, Rachel Unthank said that although the Tender in the album's title track refers to the boat that is on its way to press men to sea, "the title of this song seemed to encapsulate for us the feeling of our new album, which is perhaps calmer and a little warmer in contrast to the stark bleakness of The Bairns".
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"It being reported to the King that the Master of Gray his house did shake and rock in the night as with an earthquake, and the King (then 14 years old) interrogated David Ferguson, Minister of Dunfermline, what he thought it could mean, that the house alone should shake and totter, he answered, 'Sir, why should not the Devil rock his awn bairns?" (John Row, History of the Ki09-ouprk of Scotland (Edinburgh, 1840), quoted among excerpts in Ebenezer Henderson, The Annals of Dumferline on-line There were aftershocks. Before dawn the next morning, between 4 and 5 o'clock, further houses collapsed near Dover due to aftershocks, and a spate of further aftershocks was noticed in east Kent on 1–2 May.
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The institution began as a Germanic custom for intestate inheritance (which was the norm) under which all of a deceased's personalty was divided into thirds—the widow's part, bairns' part, and dead's partScots law terms. Also known as the customary share, orphanage share, and dead man's share in the custom of London, or alternatively as the customary share, portion natural, and legatory share in the custom of York.—the last of which, consisting of clothes, weapons, farm animals and implements, was usually buried with the deceased. With the adoption of Christian funerary practices, it became common to gift away the dead's part, and after the revival of the will, and consequently of testation, the dead's part came to be freely disposable.
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John Latto Anderson (1881 – 11 May 1942) was a Scottish footballer who played as a centre half. He began his career at Dunfermline Athletic and had three years at Heart of Midlothian,(Hearts player) John Anderson (1), London Hearts Supporters Club but spent the majority of his career with Falkirk.Jock Anderson - Captain, Falkirk Football Historian, 29 August 2013 He was in the Bairns team that finished runners-up in the Scottish Football League in the 1907–08 and 1909–10, but played no part in the club's Scottish Cup win of 1913, having more or less retired due to injury by that point. He had played in the 1903 Scottish Cup Final with Hearts, losing out to Rangers after two replays.Football.
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On Maitland's death on 3 October 1595 Jean was left a rich widow, and quickly married John Kennedy, 5th Earl of Cassilis, some 22-years her junior, becoming Countess of Cassillis. The age disparity aroused considerable scornful comment in the Scottish court, but Jean's wealth ensured the continued status of the couple. It was said, "she was past bairns bearing, and he was a young man not past 23 years."John Mackenzie, A chronicle of the kings of Scotland (Edinburgh, 1830), p. 157 Kennedy was offered a post as Treasurer in 1599, but declined, fearing the cost of the appointment in terms of anticipated loans to a needy James VI. On 22 February 1600 Fleming and Cassilis hosted James VI at Thirlestane Castle.
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Vaulks was released from his six-month professional contract at Tranmere in November 2012, and signed with Workington; in February 2013, due to a clause in his contract that allowed him to leave for a professional club, he signed for Scottish Football League First Division side Falkirk. He made his debut on 9 March in a 2–0 loss at Greenock Morton, and ended the season with six appearances. On 9 November 2013, Vaulks scored his first goal for the Bairns, to open a 4–1 win over Livingston at Falkirk Stadium. In January 2014, Vaulks was called to a trial by English Championship club Blackburn Rovers. He played 42 games over the season, including all four of the play-off games as the club lost 2–1 to Hamilton Academical in the final.
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A native speaker and Scots language specialist, Clark has published several books of translations, including a Glaswegian rendering of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and an award-winning Scots translation of Diary of a Wimpy Kid. In 2015, he released Intae the Snaw, a collection of Scots translations which was praised by writer Matthew Fitt as "Brilliant... Tammas Clark takes the bonnie broukit bairn that is the Scots and blaws new life intae the hail clamjamfrie" and by poet Rab Wilson as "an important collection that timeously re-establishes the pouer, virr an smeddum o the Scots language!" In 2019, Clark won the first ever Scots Bairns' Book o the Year award at the inaugural Scots Language Awards. Previously editor of Scots at Bella Caledonia, Clark is now a regular columnist at The National.
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In 1948, Smith was appointed player-manager of Corby Town upon the club's formation but left after only a couple of months for family reasons, returning north to Dundee where he became a coach. He moved into management with Dundee United in September 1954, leaving his coaching post at rivals Dundee to join United. After two seasons of steady mid-table finishes, he resigned to take over as manager of Falkirk (then bottom of Division One) in January 1957. Three months later, Smith had saved the Bairns from relegation and led his new club to victory in the Scottish Cup. In the summer of 1959, Smith was approached by old club Millwall to replace Jimmy Seed as manager, and he returned to the Londoners for the beginning of the 1959–60 season.
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The elfin folk from this world would arrive unexpectedly, allowing her to join in their herb-picking before sunrise, and brewing their salves (sawis) before her eyes. But they were often abusive, striking her in a manner that left her bereft of all her powers ("poistee" or "poustie") on her sides, rendering her bedridden for twenty weeks at a time. The form "Queen of Elphen" occurs in the 1598 witchcraft trial indictment (ditty) and confession of Andro Man (Andrew Man) of Aberdeen. Andro Man confessed that as a boy he saw "the Devil" his master "in the likeness and shape of a woman, whom [he] callest the Queen of Elphen," and as an adult, during the span of some thirty-two years he had carnal relations with the "Quene of Elphen" on whom he begat many bairns.
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Auchencrow and Billie were mentioned in place-name verses recorded in the 19th century; > I stood upon Eyemouth Fort, > And guess ye what I saw, > Ferneyside, and Flemington, > Newhouses, and Cocklaw, > The fairy-folk o' Fosterland, > The witches o' Edencraw, > And the bogle in the Billy-myre. > > and among verses referring to witches and warlocks; > > Bourtrees, Bees, and Bairns, > Are rife in Auchencraw, > Where in the days o' auld lang syne, > The wives were witches a', > And Jamie Bour the auld gley'd carle, > Was warlock in yon raw.Henderson, George, The popular rhymes, sayings, and > proverbs of the county of Berwick, (1856), 2, 52-60 Although the 19th-century editor considered the latter verse of recent origin, he noted "Jamie Bour" as a reference to the servant of Robert Logan of Restalrig and Fast Castle mentioned in the Gowrie Conspiracy trial in 1608, who had property in the village.
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Robert McCracken Keyes (1910 – 1970) was a Scottish footballer who played for Morton and Falkirk, mainly as a centre forward. He signed for Falkirk in January 1935, with the club being relegated at the end of that season; however he scored 30 goals from 25 appearances as the Bairns won the 1935–36 Scottish Division Two title to reclaim their place in the top tier, and then amassed a further 54 goals in 58 games over the next two seasons as they consolidated their place in Division One.Robert Keyes, Falkirk Football Historian, 30 November 2013 His career was curtailed by the outbreak of World War II, during which he played in unofficial competitions with Falkirk for 18 months, then for two years with Motherwell. Keyes was selected once for the Scottish Football League XI in 1939 (two days before the war began), scoring one of the goals in a 3–2 win over the Irish League.
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Born in Barrhead, Logan began his senior career with local club Arthurlie of Scotland's second tier in 1908, moving to Falkirk, at that time one of the top teams in the country, in 1910, following a trial. During the initial months of his first season at Brockville Park (in which the club eventually finished in third place), his elder brother Alec was a teammate prior to a transfer to England; another older sibling James was also a professional footballer who played in England, becoming an opponent after he moved back home in 1912 to play with Rangers. With the Bairns, Logan lifted the Scottish Cup after a 2–0 win over Raith Rovers in the 1913 final at Celtic Park, scoring the second goal; it was the club's first major honour, and he joined Chelsea within a few weeks. a year later he was joined at Stamford Bridge by another member of that Falkirk team, Jimmy Croal.
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James Aiton Hunter, also known as James Semple (5 July 1898 – 1982) was a Scottish footballer who played as a left back. His first senior club at the end of World War I was Newcastle United, but before playing a first-team match he then signed for Motherwell while still registered as a Newcastle player; however it was decided that the transfer was acceptable with no fee due.Player Profile James Alton Hunter, Toon1892Jim Hunter, MotherWELLnet Hunter soon moved on to Falkirk at the end of 1919, spending the next four years with the Bairns and being selected twice for the Scottish Football League XI in 1923.(SFL player) James Hunter, London Hearts Supporters Club In January 1924 he returned to Newcastle for a free of £3,500 with the club anticipating the need to replace defender Frank Hudspeth who was then 33, but the veteran played on for several more years, with Hunter serving as back-up until 1925, with a high asking price deterring clubs in Britain.
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Wainwright rendezvoused with the craft to interview the four seamen of the smack Our Bairns. They revealed that the U-boat—which turned out to be —was of the latest type Germany had in action. The destroyer relieved the lighthouse vessel of the four fishermen and continued the search until dusk, when she headed back to Queenstown to land the rescued men. For a month, she carried on conducting routine patrols. Action finally came on the morning of 18 October, when Wainwright again received orders to Helvick Head to hunt for an enemy submarine. She arrived at the designated location at about 11:15 and searched for more than two hours for clues as to the U-boat's location. Then, at 13:58, she sighted a submarine's conning tower about off her starboard bow. The enemy appeared to be maneuvering into position for a torpedo attack but submerged the moment Wainwright charged to the attack.
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The first game of 1974 brought winless Falkirk to Boghead, but it was to be Dumbarton who would suffer their fifth straight defeat with the Bairns breaking their duck in handsome fashion, 5-1. On 5 January Dumbarton visited Somerset Park to play Ayr United and the plan to stem the leaky defence appeared to work as a Ross Mathie goal was sufficient to take both points. A week later Arbroath came to Boghead and in the first half it looked as if the previous defensive frailties had returned as the visitors led 2-0. However a freak goal by Colin McAdam where a free kick taken 5 yards inside his own half bounced on the penalty spot and over the goalkeeper followed by a Willie Wallace strike changed the whole complexion of the game. Thereafter it was all Dumbarton and a Ross Mathie hat-trick completed an amazing 5-2 win. Away from the domestic scene, Scotland had qualified for the World Cup finals and Dumbarton made an amazing offer to one of Scotland’s future opponents Zaire to play a friendly.
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His form at the Brockville Park club took an immediate upturn (14 goals in 25 league matches) which was such that he came into contention for international selection, and after less than a full season with the Bairns before he was signed by top English club Aston Villa, where his younger brother James had already been playing in the defence for two years. Logan was involved for two-and-a-half seasons at Villa Park (the club finished runners- up in 1907–08) but despite a decent scoring record he was unable to secure a regular place in the team, and returned to Falkirk in the summer of 1909. Once again, he performed well for the club and in 1909–10 they missed out on the Scottish League title by two points (meanwhile in England his former club Aston Villa and brother James did win the championship). Falkirk then signed another younger Logan brother, Tommy, although the siblings were teammates only for a matter of months before Alec's form again attracted the attention of English clubs, this time moving to Bristol City in December 1910.
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Legend has it that he called his run "Bernisdale" after his birthplace on the Isle of Skye and that the name was changed to its present spelling when Macleod was surprised by the number of "bairns" ("children" in the Scots language) which had appeared in the settlement and that the spelling was merely altered to fit local pronunciation. However the reality is that the Run was named Bairnsdale at it inception in March 1844 after a property at Gundaroo which belonged to his brother and then nephew both named Donald Macleod. Archibald Macleod had left this property to move his stock to Gippsland at the height of the drought that drove so many Monaro settlers further afield to find good pasture for their animals. The Gundaroo property was a 2000 acre grant of land given to Major Donald Macleod a Surgeon in the New South Wales Corp in the 1820s. The property at Gundarooo was on the Yass River north of Canberra and still existed in 2020. In the 1850s and 1860s the town grew as a result of its location on the Mitchell River and its access to the sea.
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