Aberdour
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The outdoor pool.......................
Spending all day at the pool/beach when I was a kid.
Would go in the sea, run along to the pool, jump in the shallow end ( cos you were getting a bit cold by this time ) and bliss, it was like being in a sauna. mmmmm
Hurrying home to get a quick bite to eat then back down to pool, pulling soaking wet costume back on again. Yeuch!!!
Also remember having midnight bathing/galas, team games, i.e. diving for tins of fruit.
Those were the days................ great times.
A memory of contributed by Liz McAuley
Remember
I grew up in Kirkcaldy and this castle and its grounds was a great mass of interesting places to hide, climb and explore. It was in effect our playground between the years of 1984 through to 1988. Even the local high school (Viewforth) used the park grounds to the left of the castle and still does for cross country.
A memory of Kirkcaldy contributed by carolyn haxton
Happy Holiday Times
My childhood holidays were spent each year at Lower Largo from 1952 until 1960.
Mum, Dad and I lodged with a family called Robertson where we had a room and meals cooked for us by Mrs Robertson. Every year the same families from all over came to Lower Largo at the same time so we always had lots of friends to meet each year again!
Our journey from Edinburgh was on the train over the Forth Bridge which seemed the most exciting thing to do and if we stayed for more than two weeks my father would catch the train in Station Road - travel to Edinburgh and then return to us each day after work.
Many happy days were ...read more here
A memory of Lower Largo contributed by Grace Loudon
Childhood Holidays
My gran bought 3 caravans in 1957 which were on the caravan site at Lower Largo. My parents, brother, me, my aunt, my uncle and their 2 children all spent all our holidays there - summer, easter, bank hols, etc. Us children practically spent our whole summer there. When I started work in 1960, my mum and brother still stayed at Largo during the 5/6 weeks of the summer hols, and the working adults (me, dad, grandad and uncle) travelled from Glasgow at weekends. It had so much. There was the seaside right in front of us, there was the countryside all around us, with wooded areas to explore. Lower Largo was a lovely wee fishing village, with a pier, and ...read more here
A memory of Lower Largo contributed by Maureen Drake
Extracts From Aberdour & Fife books
A packed steamer is kept firmly alongside the pier as the Master on the bridge plots her progress carefully. She is either about to put warps ashore or has just taken them aboard. The length of the boat is fairly substantial compared to the head of the jetty, so she requires delicate and careful manoeuvring if she is to be handled
An extract from from"Picturesque Harbours Photographic Memories".
Excursion trips flourished on the east coast of Scotland until 2 August 1914, when the Admiralty effectively closed the Firth of Forth to non-essential shipping. Well-patronised excursions had included Leith to the Fife resorts and then up to Dundee, and Leith to Alloa and Stirling. Those short of funds could take a non-landing trip to Burntisland for 10d return. One of the companies active on the Forth was the Galloway Saloon Steam Packet Co. Founded in June 1886, it was acquired a few years later by the North British Steam Packet Co, a subsidiary of the North British Railway. However, the GSSPCo retained its old title, and was left very much to its own devices. Between 1886 and 1900 the Forth was livened up when the GSSPCo broke away from the more sombre liveries of the day: it gave its paddlers lavender-coloured hulls with a red waterline, white paddle-box facings, yellow funnels and varnished woodwork.
An extract from from"Victorian and Edwardian Maritime Album".
A packed steamer is kept firmly alongside the pier as the Master on the bridge plots her progress carefully. She is either about to put warps ashore or has just taken them aboard. The length of the boat is fairly substantial compared to the head of the jetty, so she requires delicate and careful manoeuvring if she is to be handled safely.
An extract from from"Times Gone By".
A packed steamer is kept firmly alongside the pier as the Master on the bridge plots her progress carefully. She is either about to put warps ashore or has just taken them aboard. The length of the boat is fairly substantial compared to the head of the jetty, so she requires delicate and careful manoeuvring if she is to be handled safely.
An extract from from"Countryside Poems".
Aberdour in the Kingdom of Fife, lies between Burntisland and Dalgety Bay, just across the Firth of Forth from Edinburgh. Its name means ‘mouth of the water’, and with its two beaches, natural harbour and 13th-century castle, it has long been popular with visitors. It is described in the 1906 Baedeker as ‘a favourite little sea-bathing place, with an old castle and the ruins of a Norman church’. In this view, an excursion steamer from Leith lies at the end of the curving stone pier.
An extract from from"Scotland".