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Buses began to appear regularly in Tillicoultry after WW1 with services to Stirling and Alloa. By the late 1920's many more services had emerged and Tillicoultry was fast becoming a busy terminus. Provost Thomas Murray conducted a census of the buses and as a result of discovering that approx. 334 buses passed through Tillicoultry in a typical day pressed the Town Council to provide a proper bus station. This was built and in use by 1931 - one of the first bus stations in Scotland. Provost Murray himself donated the clock at the Moss Road end of the bus station and in 1936 he also gifted the building known as "the old man's howff" or more properly "the Murray Howff". In addition he donated plants for the adjacent rose and rock gardens.

An old postcard of Murray Square	An old postcard of Murray Square taken from Moss Road
Murray Square and the Rock Gardens	Murray Square - July 2005
Murray Square from the Dollar Road - July 2005	Murray Square looking up the High Street - May 1972 © (photograph courtesy of The Scotsman Publications Ltd ©)
A postcard of the Rock Garden, 1938 Courtesy of St Andrews University Library ©	A postcard of the Rose Garden, 1938 Courtesy of St Andrews University Library ©
A postcard of the Rock Garden, Murray Howff and Murray Square, 1938 Courtesy of St Andrews University Library ©	A postcard of Murray Square, the Rose Gardens, Murray Howff with the Baptist Church in the background Courtesy of St Andrews University Library ©
The Murray Howff has now been demolished and the rock and rose gardens have been grassed over The major archive of monochrome topographical views by James Valentine and Co is held by the University of St Andrews Library. For further details of this collection please contact the Library, or refer to http://specialcollections.st-and.ac.uk Tillicoultry.org.uk is not responsible for the content of external sites

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