Old Photograph Shorehead Street Leven Fife Scotland

Old photograph of a Tram, buildings and people on Shorehead Street in Leven, Fife, Scotland. Charles Augustus Carlow was born at 2 Links Place in Leven, Fife on 30 November 1878 to Mary Weatherstone, daughter of William Lindsay, a shipowner, and Charles Carlow mining engineer. He studied mining technology at Heriot-Watt College and the University of Edinburgh. was a Scottish mining engineer and owner and managing director of the Fife Coal Company Ltd., that was based in Leven, Fife. In 1927 he gave Blair House and 27 acres of ground near Culross in Fife to serve as a convalescent home for elderly and injured miners. The home is named for him as Charles Carlow Miners Convalescent Home. He died on 13 August 1954. The origin of the name Leven comes from the Pictish word for flood. In 1854 the Leven Railway opened, linking the town with Thornton Junction on the Edinburgh to Aberdeen main line. This helped it to become a tourist resort popular with visitors from the west of Scotland, and particularly Glasgow. Leven is located on the coast of the Firth of Forth at the mouth of the River Leven, eight miles north-east of Kirkcaldy and six miles east of Glenrothes. Golf is also a major draw with two courses at Scoonie and Leven Links. The ecclesiastical and civil parish of Scoonie included the town of Leven. I was born in Randolph Street, in nearby village of Buckhaven. Blog post of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to visit one day.



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