Old Twechar

For all Twecharite's. This is only for people who have lived in,still live or have relatives who live in Twechar ! This is a historical group to enable the pictorial history of the village to be preserved for future generations. 1860 pictures so far Please promote the group to all your relatives and friends from Twechar, and please add as many photos and memories as you can.

Artistic drawing of some old Twechar club members playing pool Bev, Chic, Me and Willie Dunbar

Here is a link to some wonderful Twechar photographs. Twechar Photo Gallery. My father, Joesph Quigley Nelson was born in Twechar in 1905. John, my grandfather, was a coal miner born in Ballymena, County Antrim near Bushmills. He met my grandmother, Mary, in Scotland. She was the daughter of another coal miner in Twechar.

Old Historic Victorian County Map featuring Strathclyde dating back to the 1840s available to buy in a range of prints, framed or mounted or on canvas. Twechar, 1904-1907 Ordnance Survey, Revised New Colour Series

RIB 2180. 6 Tablet of the Second Legion from Shirva, Twechar.. The etymology of the name is probably 'causeway or pavement'. 7 Several old documents show Twechar with various spellings including maps by Charles Ross, 8 and William Roy. 9 There is a long history of mining activity in the Twechar locality but it was not until the coming of William Baird amp Co. to the area, about 1860

The former mining and quarrying village of Twechar is located 2 miles 3 km southwest of Kilsyth in East Dunbartonshire.The River Kelvin runs to the north of the settlement and nearby lie Barr Hill and Croy Hill, both of which have a Roman fort on them. It is in and around Twechar that the best stretches of the Antonine Wall can be seen.

The forth and Clyde Canal also runs along the northern edge of Twechar and is a nationally recognised ancient monument flowing from Grangemouth in the East to Bowling in the West. This was a site of much industrial travel in the 1700s and 1800s, with the section at Twechar being built in 1771. The section at Auchinstarry, a mile from Twechar

In Twechar there was the police station and a street that was called MacDonald Crescent, which is to be seen there and it's a style of architecture which you see in all the villages of old Dunbartonshire. If you go to Alexandria, Renton, down the far end, you will see houses and you will see immediately that it was that architect who designed

History RIB 2180. 6 Tablet of the Second Legion from Shirva, Twechar.. The etymology of the name is probably 'causeway or pavement'. 7 Several old documents show Twechar with various spellings including maps by Charles Ross, 8 and William Roy. 9 There is a long history of mining activity in the Twechar locality but it was not until the coming of William Baird amp Co. to the area

I came to Twechar to visit my Grandfather and Grandmother, who lived in 15 Mc Donald Crescent when I was a young lad of 8 or 9. I went to school in St Niniann's, Kirkintilloch after my Mum and Dad John Differ moved to Glasgow. I remember the old PUG steam engine puffing its way past their window going to and from the local collieries.