Tolbooth Entrance, Jail Wynd
The coffin of Allan Mair - eighty four years old when he achieved the odd distinction of being the last man hanged in Stirling - was found in a cheap pine coffin, a tea chest, beneath the Tolbooth Theatre pend during renovations in 2000 – along with that of ‘Scatters’ a poacher, who claimed that his grandmother, a witch from Denny, had placed a magic spell upon him – promising that he could only die with his boots on. On the day he was to be hanged, he marched boldly to the gallows erected by the Mercat Cross in Broad Street, unbuttoned his boots, and threw them into the crowd...sure that this would guarantee his survival. As his burial here proves... it didn’t.
Find out more about the Tolbooth at http://tolbooth.stirling.gov.uk
- 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
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- 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