Thistles Shopping Centre
The Thistles Shopping Centre began construction in the 1970s, on the site of the 19th-century Port Mill iron foundry, and the workshops and warehouses of Mr William Kinross - 'Carriage and Motor Car builders to the Nobility and Gentry of Great Britain, His Highness the Rajah of Jowar and many other Native Gentlemen of India’. The links to Stirling's past go back much further, and are still accessible to modern shoppers and visitors...in the form of The Bastion, a 'Thieves Pot' or 'Bottle Dungeon', originally part of the Medieval Burgh Wall, which can be reached through a doorway next to W.H.Smith's newsagents.
Extended in the '80s and '90s, with entrances in Port Street, Murray Place and Goosecroft Road, The Thistles is Stirling's main shopping centre, offering a selection of more than 70 chain stores and speciality shops, and easy access to the Goosecroft Road Bus Station.
Forthcoming Events at The Thistles
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Further Information
Open every day. Find out more at http://www.thethistles.com Tel. 01786 474157
- Old Town Tour
- Old Town Jail
- Destination Stirling
- Visit Scotland
- The Smith Art Gallery and Museum on Dumbarton Road
- Stirling Castle
- The Tolbooth on St. John Street
- Church of the Holy Rude on St John Street
- The Back Walk
- National Wallace Monument on the Abbey Craig
- Battle of Bannockburn
- Darnley Coffee House on Bow Street
- Hermann's Restaurant on Broad Street
- The Settle Inn on St Mary's Wynd
- La Ciociara on Friars Street
- Loch Katrine Experience
- The Golden Lion Hotel, King Street
- There & Back Again (Transport!)
- Stirling Bagpipes, Broad Street
- Sprinkle Happiness
- The Stirling Arcade on King Street
- Thistles Shopping Centre
- Scribbler's Picnic
- For The Love of Eilidh: The Eilidh Brown Memorial Fund
- The John Muir Way
- Changelings Costumes & Accessories