It was a wet morning here today but it dried up later and the weatherman promised 12C/54F which is pretty much spring here. I headed to Fife on my CBF250, it was a short run but there was plenty to see.
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| Entering the Kingdom from the Kincardine Bridge |
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| Longannet Power Station, now closed, burned coal mined in this area. |
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| At Culross I passed this building. With its stone roof it looks like a dungeon but is the boathouse for a nearby mansion. |
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| Culross is a well-preserved town with many interesting buildings. It was founded on mining. Coal provided the power for another industry - the production of salt. |
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| This is the town "tron" or weighting scales. Goods would be weighted here before being loaded onto ships. |
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| How things looked in days past. |
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| Culross Palace dates from about 1600 and was built on the profits from coal. The red tiles are unusual for Scotland (slate being more common) but ships exporting coal & salt to Europe brought them back as ballast. The palace was getting some winter maintenance today. |
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| The cobbled back streets were very bumpy! |
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| Culross Abbey (1217) |
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| In Charlestown there was evidence of another industry that used the local coal. These are lime kilns built around 1750. They operated until 1956. |
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| The next town along is eh, Limekilns. |
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| The Firth of Forth |
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| In the town there were some classic cars outside the church. There seemed to be a funeral going on - for a car enthusiast? |
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| The aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth under construction at the naval dockyard at Rosyth. |
Great pictures. A nice contrast with the ominous clouds.
ReplyDelete"ominous clouds", or as we call them in Scotland, "the sky"! I should have added in the posting that all the photographs were taken in only 12 miles of coast.
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