Old Photograph Binnend Scotland

Old photograph of cottages in Binnend, an abandoned industrial village near Burntisland, Fife, Scotland. This Scottish village built in the early 1880s to house workers at the nearby shale oil extraction works. Production did not last long, and the mines closed in 1894. In 1891, the population was about 760 but it declined quickly; many people had left by the time that the mines closed, but the last inhabitant, George Hood, remained until 1954.



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