Spring Road Trip Drive To Collessie Fife Scotland

Tour Scotland Spring travel video of a road drive, with Scottish music, on a single track road on visit to Collessie, Fife. Collessie is located South of Newburgh in Fife.

Sir William Oliphant Hutchison is buried in Collessie graveyard. Born in Kirkcaldy, Hutchison was a scholar at Kirkcaldy High School, and subsequently at Rugby School. He attended the Edinburgh College of Art between 1909 and 1912. On leaving he started the Edinburgh Group, holding exhibitions for three consecutive years, with Eric Robertson, Alick Riddell Sturrock, John Guthrie Spence Smith,[1] Dorothy Johnstone, Mary Newbery,and David Macbeth Sutherland who later became Principal at Gray's School of Art in Aberdeen. Hutchison also worked and studied in Paris for a while, mainly painting portraits though also producing landscape and figure paintings. Hutchison enlisted during the First World War serving with the Royal Garrison Artillery and being stationed in Malta, later being badly wounded in France. After demobilization in 1918, he and his wife occupied a studio flat in Edinburgh until 1921, before moving to London. Here he successfully worked as a portrait painter, exhibiting at the Royal Academy, becoming a member of the Savage Club, and enjoying a large circle of friends, mainly from the art world. Hutchison was Director of the Glasgow School of Art from 1933 to 1943, from all accounts being an excellent director. Though a great traditionalist he encouraged those who tended to the avant garde. The school maintained an interest in those staff and students serving during World War II, sending them gifts and cards. He served as President of the Royal Scottish Academy from 1950 to 1959 and was knighted in 1953. He died on 5 February 1970 at his home at 30 Oakwood Court, Kensington, London, England.

A single track road or one lane road is a road that permits two way travel but is not wide enough in most places to allow vehicles to pass one another, although sometimes two compact cars can pass. This kind of road is common in rural areas across the United Kingdom and elsewhere. The term is widely used in Scotland, particularly in the Highlands and Islands.

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