“No Weddings, Just Folk Songs”: The Story of The Bawbees, Stirling’s Short-Lived Folk Pact
SPMA Stories #1 In the autumn of 1964, three young women from Stirling and Clackmannanshire formed a folk trio that would soon become a charming fixture in the central Scottish music scene. The Bawbees, which was made up of guitarist Rita Masson (20), her younger sister and singer Sheena Masson (18), and their friend Betty […]
Brock of Raploch
Bremner’s Childhood in The Raploch: “I was brought up in a place called Raploch, a tough district in my native Stirling. Maybe that has something to do with the belligerent attitude I have adopted on the Soccer field, over the years.” (Billy Bremner, 1971) William John Bremner, known as Billy, was born in Stirling on […]
