Towns > Stirling > 1866 - Threepenny guide & directory for Stirling, Bridge of Allan, etc.

STIRLING.
The Town Council have the exclusive management of each of the above funds,
with the exception of Allan's Hospital, the direction of which is vested in the Town.
Council, and second Minister of the town.
DRUMMOND'S TKACT DEPOT.
The founder of this well-known "Enterprise," as it has been called, is Mr Peter
Drunimond, seedsman, of the firm of W. Drummond & Sons, Stirling and Dublin.
It was begun in 1848, and had for its original object the suppression of Sabbath
desecration in the town and neighbourhood, through means of the free distribution
of tracts or leaflets prepared on the subject. By and by one and another of the
more prevalent vices came to be assailed in the same manner, and in an incredibly
short time tracts were issued by tens and hundreds of thousands, up even to millions,
and scattered over the country, the expense being met for the most part by money
contributions or "donations" given in by the benevolent of all quarters for the
purpose. Then monthly broad-sheets of the same character as the tracts came to be
added, and likewise issued in tens or even hundreds of thousands, and despatched in
huge bales far and wide, till, in less than ten years from the commencement of the
"Enterprise," the names of "Stirling" and of "Peter Drummond," were, we
venture to say, more extensively known all over the world than were those of any
other town and individual in all broad Scotland.
This extraordinary and all but unexampled success soon led to a corresponding
enlargement of the "Tract Depot" and its establishment, and ultimately to the
erection, in King Street and Murray Place, of the most elaborately decorated and
costly house of business ever seen in Stirling, whether in this or any former age.
POST-OFEICE, MUERAY PLACE.
M;-. W. C. Stevenson, Postmaster.
The Letter-box closes for the respective Mails as follows : —
For Edinburgh, Glasgow, Falkirk, &c., at 20 minutes past H a.m.
For Edinburgh, Glasgow, England and Ireland, and South of Scotland, at
20 minutes past 4 afternoon.
For Edinburgh, Glasgow, Falkirk, England and Ireland, at 15 minutes
before 8 evening.
For Bridge of Allan, Dunblane, Crieff, Perth, and the North, at 20 minutes
past 7 morning, and at 25 minutes past 9 evening.
For Alloa, Kincardine, Dunfermline, &c., at 20 minutes past 7 morning, and
at 15 minutes past 5 evening.
Letters are delivered as follows : —
From England, Ireland, Edinburgh, Glasgow, the North, and South, Alloa,
Kincardine, Dunfermline, Dollar, &c., at 15 minutes before 7 morning.
From England, Ireland, Edinburgh, Glasgow', Dunfermline, Dollar, &c., at
9 morning.
From Edinburgh, Glasgow, Perth, Crieff, Dunblane, Bridge of Allan, and
the North, at 6 evening.