{"id":393,"date":"2024-03-27T21:16:05","date_gmt":"2024-03-27T21:16:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/clairecallender.com\/?page_id=393"},"modified":"2025-01-23T16:46:45","modified_gmt":"2025-01-23T16:46:45","slug":"the-blue-bell-inn-camelon","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/clairecallender.com\/?page_id=393","title":{"rendered":"The Blue Bell Inn, Camelon"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>My ancestors, Alexander Cowie and Mary Baird, were the first publicans of the Blue Bell Inn in the 1840s. This is the story of the inn, from their time there until its demolition, well over a century later, as part of the redevelopment of Camelon Main Street in the 1960s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A version of this tale was published in <em>Calatria<\/em>, the journal of the <a href=\"https:\/\/falkirklocalhistory.club\/\">Falkirk Local History Society<\/a>, vol. 38 (2024). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"707\" src=\"https:\/\/clairecallender.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Camelon_map_OS1_2500_1944_1971_showingBlueBell_Jessmar-e1713185758393-1024x707.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-489\" srcset=\"https:\/\/clairecallender.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Camelon_map_OS1_2500_1944_1971_showingBlueBell_Jessmar-e1713185758393-1024x707.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/clairecallender.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Camelon_map_OS1_2500_1944_1971_showingBlueBell_Jessmar-e1713185758393-300x207.jpg 300w, https:\/\/clairecallender.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Camelon_map_OS1_2500_1944_1971_showingBlueBell_Jessmar-e1713185758393-768x530.jpg 768w, https:\/\/clairecallender.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Camelon_map_OS1_2500_1944_1971_showingBlueBell_Jessmar-e1713185758393.jpg 1128w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><strong>Camelon showing Blue Bell Inn at 1 Main Street. Map is Ordnance Survey 1: 1,250,&nbsp; A ed. 1944-1973, NS8780SE &#8211; A, Surveyed: 1950, Published: 1951. Reproduced with the permission of the National Library of Scotland.<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-file\"><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-38ea090f-9e2b-423b-acd1-40ae5239b6bc\" href=\"https:\/\/clairecallender.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/TheBlueBellInn_CenturyinCamelon_CWC-1.pdf\">TheBlueBellInn_CenturyinCamelon_CWC<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/clairecallender.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/TheBlueBellInn_CenturyinCamelon_CWC-1.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-38ea090f-9e2b-423b-acd1-40ae5239b6bc\">Download<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My ancestors, Alexander Cowie and Mary Baird, were the first publicans of the Blue Bell Inn in the 1840s. This is the story of the inn, from their time there until its demolition, well over a century later, as part of the redevelopment of Camelon Main Street in the 1960s. A version of this tale&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/clairecallender.com\/?page_id=393\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Blue Bell Inn, Camelon<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":305,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-393","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/clairecallender.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/clairecallender.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/clairecallender.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clairecallender.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clairecallender.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=393"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/clairecallender.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":692,"href":"https:\/\/clairecallender.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/393\/revisions\/692"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clairecallender.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/clairecallender.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}