Kilsyth is a town and civil parish in North Lanarkshire, roughly halfway between Glasgow and Stirling in Scotland. The estimated population is 10,380. The town is famous for the Battle of Kilsyth and
The bandstand in Burngreen, Kilsyth
Panorama from Croy Hill and the Antonine Wall, looking over Kilsyth towards the Kilsyth Hills.
Queenzieburn and Kilsyth from the air. The four main vertical lines looking roughly eastwards at the bottom of the picture are: Glasgow Road through Queenzieburn and Kilsyth, the line of the old Kelvin Valley Railway Line near Gavell Station, the River Kelvin, and the Forth and Clyde Canal
William Irvine, sometimes Irvin or Irwin in contemporary documents, was a Scottish evangelist. He is regarded as the founder and early propagator of the Two by Twos movement. Rapid growth was experien
Kilsyth
…Burns a minister in Kilsyth, and his son William Chalmers Burns a missionary to China also saw revival in 1839, part of the Second Great Awakening. William Irvine (evangelist and founder of the Two by Twos and Cooneyites sects) was born in Kilsyth in 1863. The Church of Scotland parish church was founded in 1768…
William Irvine (circa 1910)
(l-r) William Gill (appointed overseer of Britain), William Irvine with pet dog and constant companion, and George Walker (appointed overseer of eastern North America), early workers
Photograph of William Irvine taken during the 1930s