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 Glenrothes Fife Scotland
Old photograph of a car and houses in Glenrothes, Fife, Scotland. The name Glenrothes comes from its historical link with the Earl of Rothes who owned much of the land upon which the new town has been built; the word " Glen " which is Scottish for valley, was added to the name to avoid confusion with Rothes in Moray and in recognition that the town lies in a river valley. Planned in the late 1940s as one of Scotland's first post second world war new towns its original purpose was to house miners who were to work at a newly established coal mine, the Rothes Colliery. Following the failure of the mine the town developed as an important industrial centre.
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