Broad Street
Once a huddle of overcrowded tenements and Common Lodging Houses, shadowed by the grim tower of the Tolbooth, Broad Street - site of the weekly market and public punishments from the 12th-to-19th-centuries, has a dark history.
Two weavers, John Baird and Andrew Hardie, were amongst many poor people executed by the Mercat Cross, here – hanged and beheaded in 1820 as Traitors. Their crime? Asking for the right to vote.
It was also the unlikely site of a spate of mass haunting by the ‘Millhall Ghost’ – a white garbed figure which plagued the families of miners from the nearby Millhall Colliery, during the General Strike of 1926. Mobs of local people prowled the street, looking for the spook.
What they planned on doing if they actually caught the spook is anyone's guess!
- SYHA Youth Hostel, St John Street
- The Tolbooth, Jail Wynd
- Tolbooth Entrance, Jail Wynd
- Hangman's Close, St John Street
- Mercat Cross, Broad Street
- Broad Street
- Darnley Coffee House, Bow Street
- Mar's Wark, Castle Wynd
- Old Town Jail
- Holy Rude Church and Auld Kirkyard
- Auld Kirkyard & Holy Rude Church
- Ladies' Hill, Auld Kirkyard
- Mary Witherspoon's Grave, Auld Kirkyard
- Smith Art Gallery & Museum, Dumbarton Road
- Valley Cemetery
- John Cowane's Hospital, St John Street
- Auld Staney Breeks at Cowane's Hospital
- John Cowane's House on St Mary’s Wynd
- Argyll's Ludging, Castle Wynd
- The Back Walk & Burgh Wall
- Beheading Stone, Gowan Hill
- Stirling Castle
- Argyll's Museum, Stirling Castle
- The Settle Inn, St Mary's Wynd
- Nicky-Tam's Bar & Bothy, Baker Street
- Thistles Shopping Centre, Goosecroft Road
- The Bastion, The Thistles Shopping Centre
- Haunted Stirling
- The Golden Lion, King Street