Qualla: Falkirk https://qualla.com/falkirk en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:16 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Falkirk https://qualla.com/falkirk Falkirk: Introduction https://qualla.com/falkirk/ If you arrive in Falkirk by motorway, you see them first - two thirty-metre steel horse heads rising out of the parkland alongside the M9, watching traffic the way nothing else watches traffic anywhere in Britain. The Kelpies are the loudest signal of what Falkirk has become in the last twenty years: a town remaking itself with public art and canal regeneration after the heavy industries that built it walked away. But Falkirk is older than Industrial Revolution and stranger than its modern reputation suggests.

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/v/q/falkirk-wp/gcvq-falkirk-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Falkirk: Central Position, Layered Town https://qualla.com/falkirk/ Falkirk sits at the dead centre of Scotland's central belt, where the key motorway networks intersect - the M9 from the north and east, the M876 from the west - and within easy rail reach of both Edinburgh and Glasgow. The wider Falkirk area, including Grangemouth and Larbert, ha...

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/v/q/falkirk-wp/gcvq-falkirk-central-position-layered-town.mp3 0:06 2 full Falkirk: Callendar House and the Steeple https://qualla.com/falkirk/ At the centre of town stands the Falkirk Steeple, built in 1814, a Category A listed building so iconic that it appears on the crest of Falkirk Football Club. The town's true treasure, though, sits half a mile southeast in 180 acres of parkland: Callendar House, an imposing mansi...

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/v/q/falkirk-wp/gcvq-falkirk-callendar-house-and-the-steeple.mp3 0:06 3 full Falkirk: The Kelpies and the Wheel https://qualla.com/falkirk/ Alongside the M9 between Falkirk and Grangemouth, Andy Scott's 30-metre Kelpies stand at the eastern gateway of the Forth and Clyde Canal - steel-clad horse heads inspired by Clydesdale draught horses, completed in 2013 and visited by nearly a million people in their first year. ...

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/v/q/falkirk-wp/gcvq-falkirk-the-kelpies-and-the-wheel.mp3 0:06 4 full Falkirk: Football, Rugby, Roller Derby https://qualla.com/falkirk/ Falkirk F.C. was founded in 1876, reached the runners-up spot of Scotland's top division in 1907-08 and 1909-10, and has won the Scottish Cup twice - in 1913 and 1957. East Stirlingshire F.C., founded in 1881 as Bainsford Britannia, shares the modern Falkirk Stadium under a groun...

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