Old photograph of cottages and people on Jubilee Crescent in Newton of Falkland near Freuchie, Fife, Scotland. John Bonthrone, born 1799, died 1881, was described as a pioneer of the malt trade and was one of the first commercial maltsters in Scotland. With an eye on commercial opportunities of industrial scale maltings, he was aloso instrumental in the construction of Fife and Kinross Railway. He ran commercial maltings in Newton of Falkland, Pitlessie, Perth, Ladybank and St Monans.
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