Old photograph of cottages and people in Siller Hole by Leven, Fife, Scotland. Siller Hole, meaning " Hollow place with poor land ", is now part of the town of Leven, it consisted formerly of the cottages and houses of workers at the Durie colliery. The Sillerhole Den was once the focus of much mining activity, with three coal pits and two ochre pits in the vicinity, commercial ochre production having begun around 1830. Sillerhole Den, which was also known locally as Spinkie Den, is now Letham Glen Public Park, named after the former land owner John Letham, who gifted the land to Leven Town Council for the purposes of making a public park, opened as such in 1925.
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