Old photograph of people walking in Ravenscraig Park in Kirkcaldy,
Fife,
Scotland. Sir Michael Nairn, born 1838, died 1915, purchased Ravenscraig and Dysart House; in 1929 the land now forming Ravenscraig Park and gifted them to the community. Nairn developed his father's floor cloth business in Kirkcaldy to manufacture linoleum. This was a floor-covering composed a mixture of linseed oil and ground cork, pressed onto a jute backing. Linoleum proved both popular and hard wearing, making Nairn a wealthy man. The company grew to become the principal industry in Kirkcaldy and expanded into the USA in the 1880s. Linoleum continued to be popular internationally into the middle of the 20th Century.
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