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Tour Scotland photograph of the Pipe Band Parade at the Highland Games in Ceres, Fife, Scotland. Blog post of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to travel and visit one day.
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Tour Scotland video of The City Of St Andrews Pipe Band marching into Ceres, Fife, Scotland. The City Of St Andrews Pipe Band in Ceres prior to the start of the Ceres Highland Games. The Ceres Games are said to have been held every year since 1314 after Robert the Bruce granted the village permission to hold them in commemoration of its men's participation in the Battle of Bannockburn. Now staged in the form of Highland games, they are the oldest free games in Scotland.
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Tour Scotland photograph of the Parish Church, Ceres, Fife, Scotland. The current Parish Church was built in 1806 to a design by Alexander Leslie, replacing a medieval building. A tower and octagonal spire were added in the 1850s. It is located on rising ground in the centre of Ceres with a graveyard to the east. The south elevation faces downhill towards the centre of the village.
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Photograph of the opening ceremony at Ceres Highland Games, Fife, Scotland. Menzies Campbell, far right in the photograph, performed the opening of the Ceres Highland Games. Sir Walter Menzies Campbell CBE QC, commonly known as Ming Campbell, is a British politician, advocate and retired sprinter. He is Member of Parliament for North East Fife and was Leader of the Liberal Democrats from 2 March 2006 until 15 October 2007.
Tour Scotland photograph of a stone carving of scales above the door of the Weigh House at the Folk Museum in Ceres. Fife. Scotland. The old weigh house is where grain was weighed at a tron on market days. The building also served as a tolbooth for locking up minor offenders.
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Photograph of The Fife Folk Museum, Ceres, Scotland. This museum looks at the most important aspect of life in the Kingdom of Fife, its people. Spanning two centuries, the collection comprises many farming objects, fine art, documents and costumes illustrating the working and social lives of the people of Fife. The museum is centrally located within the small historic burgh of Ceres. Displays cover the life and work of local people in the past.
Tour Scotland photograph of a box type farm cart at the Fife Folk Museum, Ceres, Fife, Scotland. Whilst farm waggons predominated in the lowland farming regions, it was the cart which was found to be more useful in the hilly districts, especially in the Highlands. As with waggons the local tradition was a major factor in design.
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Tour Scotland photograph of The Provost in Ceres, Fife, Scotland. The statue known as The Provost with a 17th century fireplace with frieze as the base is thought to depict the Reverend Thomas Buchanan, related to the 17th century theologian George Buchanan, who became the last church provost of Ceres in 1578. The figure portrays him as a toby jug and is probably satirical. The sculptor, a local stonemason named James Howie, also carved a panel below the figure depicting the Battle of Bannockburn.
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Old Photograph of the Tolbooth and Weavers cottages in Ceres, Fife, Scotland. The tolbooth with its jail was erected in 1673 by Sir Thomas Hope of Craighall as the meeting place of the Baron's Court. It was also used as a public weigh house.
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Tour Scotland photograph of Bishop's Bridge in Ceres, Fife, Scotland. Running alongside the Bow Butts and the village green is the Ceres Burn, and spanning it is the attractive 17th century bridge, also known as the " Bishop's Bridge ". Archbishop Sharp was one of the most hated men in the country. From being Presbyterian minister of Crail he had become Episcopalian Archbishop of St. Andrews and renowned for his severity towards the Covenanters. In may 1679, the Archbishop, accompanied by his daughter, in his grand coach with coachman, postillions and 4 serving men, came from Kennoway where he had slept the night on his journey from Edinburgh to St. Andrews. By the old waterless way he would come down the hill to Ceres and over the bridge to a building at the corner of the High Street where he smoked a pipe with the curate and then onwards towards Magus Moor, where, within sight of St. Andrews, he was brutally done to death by a group of Covenanters who had spent the previous night in a barn at Baldinnie. These men had received word that the Sheriff Deputy, by name Carmichael, and also hated for his treatment of Covenanters, would be hunting in the neighbourhood next day, but Carmichael had received a warning and was safely in his headquarters at Cupar. Just as the party were preparing to break up and go home, a message reached them that the Archbishop was nearby. Hardly able to believe their good fortune, the 12 men galloped after the coach, caught up with it and committed the murder. After searching the coach they cantered away but stopped after 3 miles to give thanks to God " for the awful deed they had been permitted to perpetrate. "
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