Commercial disgrace in Falkirk!

[McClef]

weel...

it's a mall...

ya expected maire?

Aye, it's a mall.

But these windows were not designed and built as part of it. I would expect any location that has such custodianship of a historical item to treat what is in their care with more honour and dignity. Would you like a similar display obscuring the view of the Honours of Scotland or the Stone of Scone?

Or your whisky collection? Or Rabbie's statue i Dumfries?

The windows are well-known in their own right. God knows what strange accident of history put them there but there is plenty of space elsewhere in the mall where that display could have been put instead.

It's not often that I suffer from righteous indignation, but this one really got my goat.

[Alan H]

The windows are beautiful, and the site for display is OK I suppose, but lose the lingerie....

I mean, that's just common sense. The stores can display lingerie or whatever else is featured that day, a few yards away, and leave the windows to be shown on their own.

[ccga3359]

Forgive me is the particular product displayed what one finds disturbing? I agree that these windows should not be blocked and be displayed for all to enjoy. Whether it be lingerie or kilts display them elsewhere.

[GMan]

I just love those windows! Difficult to appreciate them in the spirit in which they are there with all that clutter in front.

[cessna152towser]

Dreadful how malls maul our history. There is a passage off the mall in Stirling which leads into a supposedly historic prison dungeon but I haven't established its authenticity.

[McClef]

Forgive me is the particular product displayed what one finds disturbing? I agree that these windows should not be blocked and be displayed for all to enjoy. Whether it be lingerie or kilts display them elsewhere.

Any product placed there would be disturbing. I have nothing whatsoever against ladies lingerie (though I don't wear it myself (he hastens to add) but although I do wear kilts I would find them equally obtrusive. No commercial product should intrude on the view. The windows were made to commemorate the second Battle of Falkirk and the braw laddies (not the bra leddies) who fought in it.

The windows were saved by Falkirk Council and presumeably they are the actual owners of them. It would be interesting to discover why they chose the Howgate for their display and if they made any stipulations regarding how they were to be displayed or not.

Dreadful how malls maul our history. There is a passage off the mall in Stirling which leads into a supposedly historic prison dungeon but I haven't established its authenticity.

The Thistle Centre is certainly large and one could easily get lost in it. I wouldn't be surprised if there were some archeological history hidden there.

[ccga3359]

Start a petition to have them moved to the Falkirk Wheel (same place right?)

[macwilkin]

What is on the Left leg of Prince Charles Edward Stewart? He does not appear to be wearing hose but there is a "band" of some sort?

The Order of the Garter, perhaps? CES was known to wear the regalia for the Order of the Garter:

http://www.episcopaldumfries.org/images/bpc.jpg

Notice the breast star of the Order on his jacket.

Here is the Order's garter:

http://www.heraldicsculptor.com/garter.jpg

No doubt those are supposed to be tights under his kilt.

The garter is also the inspiration for the "buckle and strap" of the Chief's crest badge.

Regards,

Todd

[Kilted KT]

worst part is, those clothing articles aren't particularly spectacular at all...talk about a very poorly thought out marketing idea!