Tour Scotland Travel Video Winter Drive On Just Opened B9131 Road From Anstruther To St Andrews Fife

Tour Scotland Winter travel video of a road trip drive North on the just opened after heavy snow on nine mile long B9131 road from Anstruther through Dunino to the A917 junction at Brownhills and then onwards to the coast by the harbour on ancestry visit to St Andrews, Fife, Scotland. This road was closed earlier as Scots were urged to continue to travel with caution as Scotland gradually recovered from the impact of last week's severe Beast From The East weather. The road still had some snow showers, but the man problem was drifting and lying snow by the sides of the road. The B9131 is a secondary short cut across east Fife, connecting the A917 in Brownhills, just east of St Andrews, to Anstruther.

All photographs are copyright of Sandy Stevenson, Tour Scotland, and may not be used without permission.

View the most recent Tour Scotland photographs.

Tour Scotland Travel Video Winter Drive From The Haven Bar and Restaurant To Harbour In Anstruther East Neuk Of Fife

Tour Scotland Winter travel video of drive from The Haven Bar and Restaurant, at 1 Shore Street, overlooking the historic harbour in Cellardyke, through the narrow streets to the harbour on ancestry visit to Anstruther, East Neuk of Fife, Scotland. A dreich day, so I popped into The Haven Bar and Restaurant which is renowned locally for its warm welcome, great atmosphere, good beer and terrific food. Dreich is a Scots word for, dreary or bleak. Anstruther Captains were famed for their seafaring skills and later in the 19th Century a number were actively involved in trade across the oceans, several in particular played a major role in the China tea trade. During the 19th century as trading ships got larger Anstruther increasingly turned to the fishing and the North Sea herring industry. Whole families would be involved with men at sea or mending nets and the women salting and packing the herring into barrels. Anstruther landed herring was particularly popular in Poland and the fishing fleet would follow the Herring run down the North Sea as far as Lowestoft.

All photographs are copyright of Sandy Stevenson, Tour Scotland, and may not be used without permission.

View the most recent Tour Scotland photographs.

Tour Scotland Travel Video Winter Drive To The Harbour At Cellardyke East Neuk Of Fife

Tour Scotland Winter travel video of a road trip drive along the narrow John Street, George Street and Shore Street to the harbour on ancestry visit to Cellardyke, East Neuk of Fife, Scotland. This is where I was raised in Scotland. Cellardyke was formerly known as Nether Kilrenny, Scots for Lower Kilrenny, or Sillerdyke, and the harbour as Skinfast Haven, a name which can still be found on maps today. The harbour was built in the 16th century and was rebuilt in 1829. The modern name of the town is thought to have evolved from Sillerdykes, a reference to the sun glinting off fish scales encrusted on fishing nets left to dry in the sun on the dykes, or walls, around the harbour. Fishing was a hazardous occupation, and over the years a number of boats from Cellardyke were lost. On 6 April 1826 a boat was lost. Seven of the crew perished and one survived. On 28 May 1844 a boat with eight crew members was lost. Two years later, on 23 April 1846 a boat with seven crew was lost. On 3 November 1848 a boat with eight crew was lost. The next loss occurred on 10 May 1865, when a boat with eight crew disappeared. In 1910 a boat from Pittenweem sank off Cellardyke with the loss of three lives. There was one survivor. In addition, on 1 July 1837 a boat from Cellardyke carrying people on an excursion to the Isle of May as part of a celebration for the start of the herring fishing foundered. Seventeen women and children lost their lives. I was raised in this old fishing village on the East coast and attended Cellardyke Primary School and Waid Academy in Anstruther. I was raised a Dyker.

All photographs are copyright of Sandy Stevenson, Tour Scotland, and may not be used without permission.

View the most recent Tour Scotland photographs.

Tour Scotland Travel Video Winter Drive On A917 Road To Shore Street In Anstruther East Neuk of Fife

Tour Scotland Winter travel video of a road trip drive West on the A917 road past the village of Kilrenny, to Shore Street on ancestry visit to Anstruther, East Neuk of Fife, Scotland. King James II of Scotland famously once described the East Neuk as a fringe of gold on a beggar’s mantle. Edinburgh is approximately 50 miles South West and Dundee about 20 miles to the North. Many banks of snow by the sides of parts of the roads after the Beast From The East weather. I went to High School at Waid Academy in Anstruther, known as Anster or Enster by locals.

All photographs are copyright of Sandy Stevenson, Tour Scotland, and may not be used without permission.

View the most recent Tour Scotland photographs.

Tour Scotland Travel Video Winter Drive On A917 Road To The Harbour In Crail East Neuk of Fife

Tour Scotland Winter travel video of a road trip drive on the A917 road to Boarhills where the road turns sharply right, then South through Kingsbarns, and onwards to the old harbour on ancestry visit to Crail, East Neuk of Fife, Scotland. Charming cobbled streets lead down to the small harbour, which is sheltered by cliffs and surrounded by historic fishing cottages and houses. Many banks of snow by the sides of parts of the roads after the Beast From The East weather.

All photographs are copyright of Sandy Stevenson, Tour Scotland, and may not be used without permission.

View the most recent Tour Scotland photographs.