Tour Scotland photographs and videos from my tours of Scotland. Photography and videography, both old and new, from beautiful Scotland, Scottish castles, seascapes, rivers, islands, landscapes, standing stones, lochs and glens.
Old Photograph Children Star Scotland
Old photograph of children outside the school in Star, Fife, Scotland. Star is located between Markinch and Kennoway. Originally the village consisted of linen weavers' cottages, to support the large flax growing and linen weaving industry of Fife. There was not a village in the county of Fife that did not have it’s hand loom weavers. They were even found in the fishing villages of Crail, Pittenween, Anstruther and Largo. The cottage of the weaver might be described as a ‘ but ’ and a ‘ ben ’. The ‘ but ’ housed the kitchen, beds and living area and the ‘ ben ’ was a separate room for the loom. As time went by weavers would take their cloths to merchants to sell in Edinburgh, Glasgow, and London, England.
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