📺 Don't miss #Stirling on Channel 4's Britain's Most Historic Towns series this weekend! #HistoricTowns The episode, which tells the story of Stewart Britain by studying the #history of the city, will be on at 8pm on Saturday (22 June). Tune in to see Professor Alice Roberts head to #Stirling to help archaeologists who have uncovered the docks that once housed Europe’s largest warship, tours the city walls built to keep out Henry VIII and has a kick about with a football that belonged to Mary Q

STIRLING CASTLE, SCOTLAND #BeautifulScotland Stirling Castle, located in Stirling, is one of the largest and most historically and architecturally important castles in Scotland. #Scotland #Castle #Stirling #History #Beauty #View | Beautiful Scotland

Section of Stirling Mk III LK488 at The Royal Air Force Museum Midlands. Her crew were performing their final HCU flight before being cleared for Ops when disaster struck. #ww2 #ww2history #wwii #warbirds #stirling | Daniel J Wheatcroft

Following up on our previous post about the Short Stirling heavy bomber of the Second World War, here is a 1942 film on the production of the Stirling at the Short Brother factory in Swindon. It is fascinating to have this insight in the production facilities with only minimal automatisation. The film also clearly shows how dependent the industry was on women. FlyPast Magazine Royal Air Force From ‘IWM Film and Video Archive’ | The Royal Air Force Museum London

No Short Stirling airframes survived postwar - but The Stirling Project is working to correct that… #warbirds #ww2 #short #stirling #ww2history | Daniel J Wheatcroft