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Tag: Fife

By Hole Ousia Posted on July 15, 2026

‘The Montrave Rejoicings’

Montrave House, Fife: 1893 Ordnance Survey map: The Dundee Courier, 5 August 1897: Dundee Courier, 5 June 1969: St Andrews Citizen, 14 June 1969:

Categories: Architecture, Progress hardly broke its stride, Scotland, Time passesTags: demolished, E M Forster, entropy, Evelyn Waugh, Fife, Howards End, Montrave, Richard Holloway, ruins, Scotland, Ted Hughes, Time passes. Listen, W G Sebald
By Hole Ousia Posted on June 24, 2026

A Meterologist’s Scrapbook

The Scotsman, 14 May 1907:

Categories: Folk worth talking about, ScotlandTags: Alexander Buchan, Buchan spells, Edinburgh, Fife, folk worth talking about, Meterological, Scotland, scrapbook, Warriston Cemetery, weather
By Hole Ousia Posted on January 14, 2026

Proposed ‘RAILPLANE’ System

I stumbled across this proposal when looking for something else in the Newspaper Archives:  

Categories: Progress hardly broke its stride, Scotland, Time passesTags: Falkland, Fife, George Bennie, Railplane, Scotland
By Hole Ousia Posted on January 14, 2026January 14, 2026

Drawing, Needlework, Piano

Janet Bowman Georgeson [1896-1988], Sian’s Great Aunt.

Categories: Family history, Folk worth talking about, Time passesTags: creativity, Cupar, Eileen Georgeson, Fife, folk worth talking about, Janet Bowman Georgeson, music, piano, Rachel, sewing, Sian Williams, teacher
By Hole Ousia Posted on October 21, 2025October 21, 2025

Lykerstanes

This old photograph is of Local postman John Thomson, pointing to a ‘Liquor Stone’, 1890. “These large flat stones, found at intervals along the sides of the roads were where … Continue reading Lykerstanes

Categories: Scotland, Time passesTags: Falkland, Fife, funeral, Liquor stane, Lykerstanes, Lykerstyne, mortality, Scotland, The Rebel antiquary
By Hole Ousia Posted on June 13, 2025

St Andrews University

Where Eileen, Dai and Rachel studied.

Categories: Family history, Scotland, This is Not yesterdayTags: Bumpa Dai, Dai + Eileen, Fife, Grandma, Rachel, St Andrews, This is not yesterday, University of St Andrews
By Hole Ousia Posted on May 9, 2025

Aye, it’s a beautiful day

Walking the coastal path between Anstruther and Crail,  East Neuk of Fife, Wednesday 8th May 2025 with Catriona and Simon: To play this short film please click here or on … Continue reading Aye, it’s a beautiful day

Categories: Omphalos films, This is Not yesterday, Time passesTags: Aberdeen Medical School, Class of 1990, Fife, friendship, Scotland, University of Aberdeen
By Hole Ousia Posted on May 8, 2025May 8, 2025

a beautiful day

Categories: Scotland, This is Not yesterdayTags: Class of 1990, Fife, friendship, summers

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