Aberdour
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So You Think You Know? Kirkcaldy
Hardback
- 2 photos on Aberdour appear in 3 Frith books - View photos of Aberdour
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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
OBSERVER CORPS
Though I have no personal memories of the Victoria Works I would be interested to hear of any recollections of the ROC based there. The Observation Post can still be seen abve the roof and its survival is probably unique in Fife.
Steve, stephen.liscoe@fife.gov.uk
A memory of Kirkcaldy contributed by First name Last name
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
An extract from from"Picturesque Harbours Photographic Memories".
Excursion trips flourished on the east coast of Scotland until 2 August 1914, when the
Admiralty effectively closed the Firth of Forth to non-essential shipping. Well-patronised
excursions had included Leith to the Fife resorts and then up to Dundee, and Leith to
Alloa and Stirling. Those short of funds could take a non-landing trip to Burntisland for
10d return. One of the companies active on the Forth was the Galloway Saloon Steam
Packet Co. Founded in June 1886, it was acquired a few years later by the North British
Steam Packet Co, a subsidiary of the North British Railway. However, the GSSPCo
retained its old title, and was left very much to its own devices. Between 1886 and 1900
the Forth was livened up when the GSSPCo broke away from the more sombre liveries
of the day: it gave its paddlers lavender-coloured hulls with a red waterline, white
paddle-box facings, yellow funnels and varnished woodwork.
An extract from from"Victorian and Edwardian Maritime Album".
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".