The bravery of a small band of staff who took up arms in opposition to poverty wages and dreadful residing circumstances in a bid to vary issues for the higher has been remembered.
On April 5, Falkirk Provost Billy Buchanan laid flowers to mark the 202nd anniversary of the Battle of Bonnymuir, a part of the Radical Rebellion of 1820.
An engraved granite stone commissioned by the Provost to mark the bi-centenary of the landmark occasion was lastly put in final yr, after the coronavirus pandemic compelled it to be delayed.
The stone commemorates the battle, which concerned a small band of weavers who had been a part of a motion that aimed to enhance the appalling circumstances and poverty pay that working individuals needed to endure at the moment.
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Led by Andrew Hardie and John Baird – who had been later hung and beheaded as punishment – they had been marching from Condorrat to the Carron Iron Works the place they deliberate to grab a cannon, as a part of a much bigger plan to take management of the town of Glasgow.
Nevertheless, betrayed by authorities spies, they had been lured to a confrontation with well-armed, skilled troopers on Bonnymuir, close to Excessive Bonnybridge. The working males fought bravely however had been quickly overwhelmed.
Provost Buchanan is set that the heroic wrestle shouldn't be forgotten.
He stated: “The story should be advised to make sure that this era of our historical past is not going to be forgotten. We are going to bear in mind those that had been executed and those that had been transported to Australia and those that rose up in opposition to struggling and injustice.”