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History & Heritage of West Fife Villages
Speaker Events // Local Museum // Heritage Projects

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📯 Saline & District Heritage Society @salineheritage.bsky.social · 17d
📍February's Speaker Event
*note the later time due to a prior community event in the Hall

#Fife #Heritage
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Join us tonight from 7:30pm!👑
salineheritage.bsky.social 📯 Saline & District Heritage Society @salineheritage.bsky.social · 17d
📍February's Speaker Event
*note the later time due to a prior community event in the Hall

#Fife #Heritage
February 17, 2026 at 11:51 AM
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Happy Pancake Day! Have a flipping good day...
February 17, 2026 at 11:21 AM
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The attractive but little-known harbour at Cellardyke, now effectively an eastern extension of Anstruther in the East Neuk of Fife. More pics and info: www.undiscoveredscot...

#Scotland #Cellardyke #Fife #Harbour #EastNeukOfFife #EastNeuk #Anstruther
Cellardyke. The image shows a harbour with part of a pier in the foreground and on the right. Beyond the harbour and to the left is a village made up of white and stone houses, most with red tiles on their roofs. The scene is in sunlight.
February 16, 2026 at 5:01 PM
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On Wednesday (18th) this week, we will host Dr Amy Blakeway who will present her talk on the early reign of Mary Queen of Scots. Join us from 7:30pm in Saline Church Hall for a warm welcome & refreshments! ☕🍰

#Fife #heritage
February 15, 2026 at 7:08 PM
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Caledonian Railway Company opened #OnThisDay in 1848. Dunblane's railway station opened 22 May 1848, later became part of Caledonian rail network. In 2017 Dunblane's original Caledonian Railway footbridge (as seen in lower image) was relocated to heritage railway at Bridge of Dun
February 15, 2026 at 8:01 AM
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📝Our latest blog post shares the progress we’ve made so far in our anti-oppression journey: highlighting changes made across MGS and how continuous learning and staff training are helping us build long term, sustainable change.
🔗Find out more: lnkd.in/eSxviMMi
📸 Stirling Smith Art Gallery & Museum
Someone is looking away from us towards a Gallery wall. The wall is dark blue and has paintings hanging in bright, golden frames. The largest painting depicts an adult with dark skin and a red shawl, smoking a pipe.
February 10, 2026 at 4:32 PM
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#OnThisDay Mary, Queen of Scots was executed for her involvement in a plot against Elizabeth I.
Read about Mary’s extraordinary life and times in a new story on Our Town Stories - zurl.co/jltdS
February 8, 2026 at 10:40 AM
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📍February's Speaker Event
*note the later time due to a prior community event in the Hall

#Fife #Heritage
February 1, 2026 at 6:16 PM
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The crumbling and precarious clifftop ruins of Newark Castle, near St Monans in the East Neuk of Fife, also sometimes known as the Castle of St Monans. A castle was probably first built here in the mid-1200s. More pics and info: www.undiscoveredscot...

#Scotland #StMonans #Fife #NewarkCastle
The crumbling and precarious clifftop ruins of Newark Castle. The foreground of the image has a bay with the sea to the right at quite low tide. There are cliffs in the middle ground beyond the bay with stone ruins on top of them. The sky is blue and the scene is in sunshine.
February 1, 2026 at 5:01 PM
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Hiding in plain sight - a tiny stretch of the Antonine Wall ditch at Bantaskin in Falkirk. The stone base of the Roman wall was excavated here in 1976, but then destroyed to make way for a new road. #RomanSiteSaturday
A short, shallow ditch in grass surrounded by trees, with a line of houses behind. A 1976 photo of excavations at Bantaskin which revealed the stone base of the Antonine Wall
January 31, 2026 at 10:55 AM
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Our website servers are primed! Address To A Haggis will get over 100,000 hits this weekend. Plus there are all the other #BurnsNight resources we have online for anyone wanting info about the bard, ideas for suppers, etc. Have a braw wee browse.
www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/burns-night/
Robert Burns by Greg Moodie
A page dedicated to Burns Night, Robert Burns's poems and contemporary responses to the life and work of Scotland's national poet.
www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk
January 24, 2026 at 12:10 PM
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Calling all archaeology students 🎓

The Scottish Student Archaeology Society Conference takes place from the 21st - 22nd of February. Organised by University of Aberdeen Archaeology Society, the conference is a fantastic opportunity to hear new research & connect with peers 👉 tinyurl.com/8bd4eu7w
January 23, 2026 at 6:35 PM
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Some breaking art historical news for you - a lost portrait of Robert Burns by Sir Henry Raeburn was unveiled today at the National Gallery of Scotland in Edinburgh. It’s been missing for more than 200 years.
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January 22, 2026 at 2:36 PM
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LEVEL VIBES: BURNS NIGHT 2026 will feature on The Arts Mix today between 3.30-4pm. Jamaica's former Poet Laureate Lorna Goodison chats about her relationship with Robert Burns and her time at Burns Ellisand Farm. Dr Stephen Mullen discusses his essay on Burns & Slavery.
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
BBC Radio Scotland - Afternoons, The Arts Mix, H is for Hawk, Saipan and The Last Letter of Mary, Queen of Scots
Author Helen Macdonald talks about the new film of her memoir, H is for Hawk.
www.bbc.co.uk
January 22, 2026 at 10:58 AM
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Come along this Wednesday at 7pm to Saline Church Hall for January's speaker event! A warm welcome plus! homebaking awaits🍰☕
January 18, 2026 at 5:09 PM
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A reminder, (if you're local!) about the Community Consultation tomorrow & Saturday...
January 15, 2026 at 4:35 PM
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The groundbreaking public poetry project Poems on the Underground this month celebrate 40 years of sharing poetry with London commuters and travellers. Today at 4pm BBC Radio 4’s Artworks mark the anniversary with a special edition.

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BBC Radio 4 - Artworks, Poems on the Underground
A programme to mark the 40th anniversary of London's Poems on the Underground scheme.
www.bbc.co.uk
January 6, 2026 at 10:27 AM
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This very special building is believed to be the only medieval Carmelite church that is still in use anywhere in the British Isles and is our #ScottishChurchOfTheWeek. This remarkable 15th century Gothic church, in South Queensferry, was once part of a Carmelite friary, founded around 1330.

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January 12, 2026 at 12:27 PM
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How many of your ancestors' death records have you found? From death certificates to newspaper articles, here's how to prove when and where your ancestor died:

www.whodoyouthinkyouaremaga...
January 10, 2026 at 1:59 PM
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📜 January's Speaker Event
#Fife #heritage
January 10, 2026 at 2:36 PM
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📣 For the notice of residents in the Saline & District Area...
January 9, 2026 at 7:07 PM
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Our first RHS lecture of 2026 is '"Alike in Appearance but not in Scope": Queens and the Making of Medieval Europe', with Prof Charles West (Edinburgh) bit.ly/49GlmMR

6pm, Friday 6 February. In-person booking is now full but registration to attend this event online remains open #Skystorians
'Queens and the Making of Medieval Europe': RHS Lecture, online
Royal Historical Society Lecture, 6 February 2026
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January 6, 2026 at 1:45 PM
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A brilliant thread on just a handful of Scottish #WomenWriters
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sarasheridan.bsky.social Sara Sheridan @sarasheridan.bsky.social · Dec 30
To celebrate the new year A THREAD of successful female Scottish writers. Here's too us. Let's start here 👇 Hugely popular Mary Brunton's second novel, Self Discipline inspired Jane Austen's Emma. She sold TONS of books. I 💕 her /1
December 30, 2025 at 9:59 AM
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Earliest coin minted in Scotland saved for the nation after 900 years
The medieval David I silver coin, discovered in a wooded area in Midlothian, has been dated to the second half of the 1130s.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 29, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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Now mirk December’s dowie face
Glowrs owr the rigs wi’ sour grimace,
While, thro’ his minimum of space,
The bleer-ee’d sun,
Wi blinkin’ light, and stealing pace,
His race doth run…

—Robert Fergusson (1750–1774), “The Daft-Days” – the period between Christmas & New Year
#BookWormSat #C18 #poetry
The Daft-Days by Robert Fergusson Now mirk December’s dowie face Glowrs owr the rigs wi’ sour grimace, While, thro’ his minimum of space, The bleer-ee’d sun, Wi blinkin’ light, and stealing pace, His race doth run. From naked groves nae birdie sings, To shepherd’s pipe nae hillock rings, The breeze nae od’rous flavour brings Frae Borean cave, And dwynin’ nature droops her wings, Wi’ visage grave. Mankind but scanty pleasure glean Frae snawy hill or barren plain, Whan Winter, ’midst his nipping train, Wi’ frozen spear, Sends drift owr a’ his bleak domain, And guides the weir. Auld Reikie! thou’rt the canty hole, A bield for mony a cauldrife soul, Wha snugly at thine ingle loll, Baith warm and couth, While round they gar the bicker roll, To weet their mouth. When merry Yule-day comes, I trow, You’ll scantlins find a hungry mou’; Sma’ are our cares, our stamacks fou O’ gusty gear, And kickshaws, strangers to our view, Sin’ fairn-year. Ye browster wives, now busk ye braw, And fling your sorrows far awa’; Then come and gie’s the tither blaw O’ reaming ale, Mair precious than the well o’ Spa, Our hearts to heal. Then, though at odds wi a’ the warl’, Amang oursels we’ll never quarrel; Tho’ Discord gie a canker’d snarl To spoil our glee, As lang’s there’s pith into the barrel We’ll drink and ’gree. Fidlers, your pins in temper fix, And roset weel your fiddle-sticks; But banish vile Italian tricks Frae out your quorum, Not fortes wi’ pianos mix— Gie’s Tulloch Gorum. For nought can cheer the heart sae weel As can a canty Highland reel; It even vivifies the heel To skip and dance: Lifeless is he wha canna feel Its influence. Let mirth abound, let social cheer Invest the dawning o’ the year; Let blithesome innocence appear To crown our joy; Nor envy, wi’ sarcastic sneer Our bliss destroy. And thou, great god of aqua vitae! Wha sways the empire o’ this city— When fou we’re sometimes capernoity— Be thou prepar’d To hedge us frae that black banditti, The City-Guard.
December 27, 2025 at 10:44 AM