The campaign to restore a “nationally significant” monument of a Falkirk -born adventurer and explorer is slowly gaining momentum.
Last year, the Provost of Falkirk, Billy Buchanan, was dismayed to hear that a cast-iron obelisk marking the life of James Bruce of Kinnaird was sitting rusting in a car park.The monument in Larbert – made by the renowned Carron Iron Works – is a nationally significant treasure in its own right, a reminder of the craftsmanship and ingenuity that once led the world in the industrial revolution.It was commissioned by James Bruce himself on the death of his wife Mary in 1785 and was such a triumph that the poet Robert Burns asked to see it when he visited the area.And yet the Bruce Obelisk now sits separate from
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