Late Autumn Road Trip Drive On Visit To Levenmouth Fife Scotland

Tour Scotland travel video of a late Autumn road trip drive, with Scottish bagpipes and drums music, on ancestry visit to Levenmouth on the North side of the Firth of Forth. The area consists of three principle coastal towns; Buckhaven, Methil and Leven. The first mention of the town of Leven was made in two separate records in the middle of the 15th century, with urgent need for repair work at the monastery at levynnis mouth and George Durie, an estate owner, became the keeper of the harbour at levynnismouth. The area is named after the mouth of the River Leven. The word Leven comes from the Pictish word for flood and was originally given to Loch Leven, in Perthshire, the flood lake at the head of the river. Until 1821, the only bridge across the river was the Cameron Brig on the main Kirkcaldy to Cupar road. In that year a pedestrian suspension bridge was built at Leven, which was replaced by a three arched stone bridge in 1840. The toll to cross this bridge was a Scottish halfpenny, or bawbee. Even though the stone bridge was replaced by a single span bridge in 1957, it is still known locally as the Bawbee Brig. Charles Augustus Carlow was born on 30 November 1878 at 2 Links Place in Leven, Fife, to Mary Weatherstone, née Lindsay; born 1851, died 1929, daughter of William Lindsay, a shipowner, and Charles Carlow, born 1849, died 1923 a mining engineer. He studied mining technology at Heriot Watt College and the University of Edinburgh. He became a leading Scottish mining engineer and owner and managing director of the Fife Coal Company Ltd., that was based in Leven, Fife. In 1927 he gave Blair House and 27 acres of ground near Culross in Fife to serve as a convalescent home for elderly and injured miners. The home is named for him as Charles Carlow Miners Convalescent Home. In 1952 he was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of St Andrews. He died in St Andrews in Fife on 13 August 1954. All photographs are copyright of Sandy Stevenson, Tour Scotland, and may not be used without permission.

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