Crime and Punishment in Stirling - Audio Guide

Twelve chapters of an audio history of Crime & Punishment in Stirling, produced for Destination Stirling's re-opening of the Old Town Jail visitor attraction in the summer of 2015 - are now available online.

Written and read by David Kinnaird, the Stirling GhostWalk's 'Happy Hangman' (and the Jail's Chief Warden!), it features many characters and stories which have been featured in the GhostWalks over the past 26 years...sometimes taking on a life of their own (as stories tend to do) far removed from their historical roots!

Recorded at the Stirling Tolbooth, and remixed by Barry Frame of The Audio Clinic.

01. Places of Punishment https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pyhg3hTbtac

02. Public Punishments https://youtube.com/watch?v=h0mExuys-zM  

03. The Workhouse & Transportation https://youtube.com/watch?v=JTJ03PE02VM 

04. The Tolbooth & The Staffman https://youtube.com/watch?v=5eRaHfh3P4Q 

05. Rogues' Gallery https://youtube.com/watch?v=5Sq10-2U0nQ 

06. Heroes of Reform https://youtube.com/watch?v=s3fK2rumqsl 

07. Reform & The New County Jail https://youtube.com/watch?v=Jes80YHoeg 

08. New Rules, Rights & Punishments https://youtube.com/watch?v=zCfXFA6uEoE 

09. Detention Barracks https://youtube.com/watch?v=kpxU7bBRT9w 

10. Dereliction & Restoration https://youtube.com/watch?v=Gc3Fzh23fQw 

and two special sections devoted to

11. 'There's Nae Luck Aboot This House' (a poem written by a Stirling prisoner in the 1860s https://youtube.com/watch?v=llN1twz1Y1w 

12. Baird & Hardie, The Radical Weavers https://youtube.com/watch?v=r22PJCOaiX8