Old Photograph Barnyards Fife Scotland

Old photograph of Barnyards in Kilconquhar, East Neuk of Fife, Scotland. Kilconquhar is a village and parish in Fife. It includes the small hamlet of Barnyards. It is bounded by the parishes of Elie, Ceres, St Monans, Carnbee, Newburn and Largo. It is approximately nine miles from North to South. Much of the land is agricultural or wooded. The village itself is situated near Kilconquhar Loch.



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Old Photograph War Memorial Water Fountain Newburgh Fife Scotland

Old photograph of men standing beside the War Memorial water fountain in Newburgh, Fife, Scotland. Commemorating the First World War, 1914 to 1918.



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Old Photograph Parkhill House Newburgh Fife Scotland

Old photograph of Parkhill House above Newburgh, Fife, Scotland. The present Parkhill House was built in 1804 for Alexander Duncan upon his retirement from the East India Company.


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Old Photograph Reverend Thomas Munn Forgan Church Fife Scotland

Old photograph of Reverend Thomas Munn, in 1903 he was Minister of Forgan Church by Newport-on-Tay in Fife, across from Dundee, Scotland. A house, formerly occupied by the Tay Rail Bridge workmen, was gutted and turned into a small church hall and opened in 1889. Soon, however, it too lacked sufficient space and following a bazaar in Dundee in 1894 at which more than £600 was raised the new church hall was completed and opened for public worship in September 1895. Some years later following its elevation from Mission to Chapel of Ease status the Reverend Thomas Munn, Minister of Forgan, ceased to be its pastor and the Reverend Robert Constable Mitchell became the first Church of Scotland Minister.



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Old Photograph Mountquhanie Castle Scotland

Old photograph of Mountquhanie Castle near Cupar Fife, Scotland. The original building was a 16th century keep. The new castle was built in 1820 in the classic Georgian style. The original castle was deliberately ruined after the completion of Mountquhanie, or Mountquhannie, House in the 1830s. A small single storey laundry was constructed to the east of the tower house. Feather Cottage was used for estate workers housing and the upper portion of the circular tower was converted to a dovecote. The vaulted ground floor chambers were converted to an estate slaughterhouse and butcher shop. The slaughterhouse occupied the east chamber and had a large tree trunk built into the walls to support it just under the vault. This was used to hoist the carcases during the slaughtering process. The west chamber contained the butcher shop and two of the blocked window recesses were converted to smoke kilns for the curing of meat. The cattle were driven from Balquhidder to Mountquhanie each Martinmas and a butcher was brought from Cupar to slaughter the animals and cure the meat This practice continued into the fIrst half of this century when the slaughterhouse was abandoned. Blog post of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to visit one day.



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