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Tag Archives: fife

Aircraft carrier in docks

Firth of Forth: walking the coast of witches and war

War machines, tav avoiders, climate change. If you want to escape politics, walking along the Firth of Forth is not the place to do it.

July 30, 2019 in History, Psychogeography, Scotland.
Ruins of Cambusnethan House - windows, walls and blue sky

Crawford Priory Revisited: abandoned ruins and golf balls

A return visit to the enigmatic ruins of Crawford Priory yields family memories, new secrets and golf balls.

April 17, 2017 in Psychogeography, Scotland.
Exterior shot of Crawford Priory Oct 2013

Crawford Priory: riddle of a ruin

Exploring the history and abandoned ruins of Crawford Priory in Fife, Scotland; and the life of Lady Mary Lindsay Crawford

January 6, 2014 in History, Scotland.
Rolling Fife countryside through the window of Cult Kirks

Hidden Fife: the veiled church

The motorist rushing along the A914 through central Fife would have to be especially sharp to notice the small sign for and the anonymous dirt track that leads up to the hamlet of Cults and its hidden church, the Cults Kirk.

November 5, 2013 in History, Scotland.

Hidden Fife: the abandoned railway buildings

The line of abandoned buildings lay on the other side of a field of stubble. Access to the buildings was an easy matter of wading through nettles, brambles and overgrowth and hopping through an open window.

October 21, 2013 in Scotland.
View from a train: Early morning over Firth of Forth

The drama of the Forth Railway Bridge

Fife is rife with ruins, green fields and contradiction. Its dramatic entrance hall, the Forth Bridge, somehow encapsulates much of its inner nature, except perhaps for the matter of golf.

October 3, 2013 in History, Scotland, Travel.
The platter of the Beggar's Benison: The way of a man with a maid

The secret sex society of the Beggars Benison

Scotland’s neglected history: how a 18th century secret sex society flourished and thrived in the ancient fishing port of Anstruther, Fife.

March 1, 2013 in Historical erotica, History, Scotland.

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