Old Photograph New Gilston Fife Scotland

Old travel Blog photograph of cottages in New Gilston, Fife, Scotland. New Gilston was built around 1700 and owes its existence to coal mining. The 1841 census data for the village shows that the majority of adult males in the vilage were employed either as agricultural labourers or as coal miners, with a small number of hand loom weavers and carters and a couple of blacksmiths and stone masons). At that time the village had had a school for a number of years, a subscription school having begun in 1832.


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