Aberdour
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Aberdour books (3 available)
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Aberdour memories
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Fife memories
The outdoor pool.......................
Spending all day at the pool/beach when I was a kid.
Would go in the sea, run along to the pool, jump in the shallow end ( cos you were getting a bit cold by this time ) and bliss, it was like being in a sauna. mmmmm
Hurrying home to get a quick bite to eat then back down to pool, pulling soaking wet costume back on again. Yeuch!!!
Also remember having midnight bathing/galas, team games, i.e. diving for tins of fruit.
Those were the days................ great times.
A memory of Burntisland contributed by Liz McAuley
School days
I lived in Mossgreen, Crossgates in the 60s. My first school was in Mossgreen, it had only 3 classrooms and 1 of the classes was taken by the headmaster Mr Suttie. Mr and Mrs Suttie lived in the headmaster's house next to the school and Mrs Suttie was a teacher at Crossgates Primary.
A memory of Crossgates contributed by mary nelson
Carefree Childhood Days
I remember 'guddling' for trout in the Teal Burn in Auchtertool. Most of the lads in the village tried it at one time or another. When we caught one we would measure it by placing the nose of the trout on our finger tips and the tail along our arm towards the elbow. The aim was to catch one that reached all the way up to the elbow but of course we never did. After all we were growing lads and each year our arms would be a little longer. Anyway there wasn't a trout big enough in the Teal.
Also my brother Jack taught me how to catch rabbits bare handed. We would go into a farmer's field and there ...read more here
A memory of Auchtertool contributed by Harry Robertson
Hanging around in late 1980s
I think it's shocking there are no memories from Lumphinnans. I have quite a few photos of the Lumphinnans Club 1 which was started to give youngsters something to do, this ran for a few years and we all had great fun on different places which we visited like Newcastle, Kenmore and ice skating. Everyone was involved in these activities, also hanging aroung Joe's shop at the corner and always being chased away, where we would move to the old brickie factory to see what hassle we could cause with Lochgelly at the farm road. Also memories and photos of Rougvies and the under 18 disco where I started to work Saturdays behind the bar when I became 18, and the ...read more here
A memory of Lumphinnans contributed by heather swan
Extracts From Aberdour & Fife books
A packed steamer is kept firmly alongside the pier as the Master on the bridge plots her progress carefully. She is either about to put warps ashore or has just taken them aboard. The length of the boat is fairly substantial compared to the head of the jetty, so she requires delicate and careful manoeuvring if she is to be handled safely.
An extract from from"Times Gone By".
A packed steamer is kept firmly alongside the pier as the Master on the bridge plots her progress carefully. She is either about to put warps ashore or has just taken them aboard. The length of the boat is fairly substantial compared to the head of the jetty, so she requires delicate and careful manoeuvring if she is to be handled safely.
An extract from from"Countryside Poems".
Aberdour in the Kingdom of Fife, lies between Burntisland and Dalgety Bay, just across the Firth of Forth from Edinburgh. Its name means ‘mouth of the water’, and with its two beaches, natural harbour and 13th-century castle, it has long been popular with visitors. It is described in the 1906 Baedeker as ‘a favourite little sea-bathing place, with an old castle and the ruins of a Norman church’. In this view, an excursion steamer from Leith lies at the end of the curving stone pier.
An extract from from"Scotland".
Aberdour in the Kingdom of Fife, lying between Burntisland and Dalgety Bay, is described in the 1906 Baedeker as ‘a favourite little sea-bathing place, with an old castle and the ruins of a Norman church’. In this view, an excursion steamer from Leith lies at the end of the curving stone pier.
An extract from from"Scotland Photographic Memories".