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Do you remember Cellardyke Bathing Pool when it looked like this?
We put this photo up on our Facebook page and these are some of the memories people posted.
Fond food memories from Happy Days
Image credit: Caroline MakesIn our Burgh Collection book Happy Days, visitors recalled the special treats they had eaten when on holiday past in Anstruther and Cellardyke. Isn’t it strange the way we often remember the food we had so long ago – especially when we were...
Do you remember the Regal cinema?
George and Rena popped into the Burgh Collection to have a chat and share their memories of the Regal Cinema, Crichton St Anstruther. Rena’s father Lindsay Berwick ran the cinema along with other family and friends from the 1950s. However the cinema itself dates back...
Anstruther Places in History – The Hermitage
The house and grounds now known as The Hermitage, in School Green, Anstruther, were in 1864 the home of the Surgeon Thomas Black, his wife Julia, and his children John, Robert, Elizabeth and Julia. Julia was a great niece on her mother’s side of Stephen Williamson MP,...
A Renaissance masterpiece from Anstruther – fake or fortune?
What connection does the Burgh Collection have to this work of art on display in Kirkcaldy Art galleries? Well, the painting of the Madonna and Child once hung in Anstruther Town Hall and Fife Council sought our assistance to find out more. The story which we helped...
Attacked by the Red Baron – but who shot down this Cellardyke airman?
Above: An R.E.8 – they were colloquially called ‘Arry Tate’sOf all the names on the Anstruther and Cellardyke War Memorials only one is of an airman. Lieutenant Philip Oliphant Ray, a former Waid pupil, was studying engineering at Glasgow University when war broke...
Kirkcaldy museum trip
January 23rd saw a group of five committee members: Kevin, Glenn, Elizabeth, Margaret and Mary, visit Fife Museum and Art Gallery in Kirkcaldy and the Museum Service’s depository in Glenrothes. We had an opportunity to view the Renaissance painting - Madonna and...
Cleek (golf club) made in Anstruther
One of several golf clubs, or cleeks, in our collection, this was hand forged in Anstruther by R...
Bill Flett’s camera case
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Waid Academy rugby team 1889–1890
While archiving sports photos, a rugby team photo from 1889 was found, making it the oldest in Waid Academy’s archive and showing the school’s early adoption of sports teams.
Christmas items from our collection
As Christmas is fast approaching, here are some of our festive items we hold at the Burgh. Locked...
History of Anstruther
Anstruther is a small town situated on a stretch of coastline known as the East Neuk of Fife on...
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