Old Photograph Shinty Team Kingussie Scotland

Old photograph of a Shinty Team in Kingussie, Highlands, Scotland. Shinty, in Scottish Gaelic: camanachd, iomain, is a team game played with sticks and a ball. Shinty is now played mainly in the Scottish Highlands, and amongst Highland migrants to the big cities of Scotland, but it was formerly more widespread, being once competitively played on a widespread basis in England and other areas in the world where Scottish Highlanders migrated.



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Old Photograph Thornton Fife Scotland

Old photograph of cottages, houses and children in Thornton, Fife, Scotland. This Scottish village is located between Kirkcaldy and Glenrothes, and stands between the River Ore and Lochty Burn, which are at opposite ends of the main street. In 1957 the Rothes Pit was opened to mine the coal in the rural hinterland surrounding the village. This coal mine was tied very closely to the development of the new town of Glenrothes to the North. The planned long term benefits were to be huge, and were to be the driver for economic regeneration in central Fife. In 1961, 4 years after opening, the huge investment was written off and the mine run down because of unstoppable flooding. Ironically, miners who had worked in older deep pits in the area had forewarned against the development of the Rothes Pit for this very reason.





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Old Photograph Golfers Links Golf Course Leven Fife Scotland

Old photograph of golfers on the 1st Tee of the Links golf course in Leven, Fife, Scotland. Leven Golfing Society is the 11th oldest golf club in the world, dating back to 1820.



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Old Photograph Fairground Burntisland Fife Scotland

Old photograph of the Fairground in Burntisland, Fife, Scotland. Burntisland is home to the second oldest highland games in the world starting in 1652. The Games take place on the third Monday of July, the start of the Fife and Glasgow fair fortnight, and a local market and summer fairground takes place on the same day.



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Old Photograph High Street Pitlessie Fife Scotland

Old photograph of cottages and people on the High Street in Pitlessie located four miles West of Cupar, Fife, Scotland. This is the only village in the parish of Cults and largely developed during the 19th Century in association with the Priestfield Maltings and nearby lime works. Its former cattle fair was the scene depicted in a famous painting by Sir David Wilkie who was born at Cults manse in November 1785 and went to school in Pitlessie.





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