Official guide to Crail and the neighbourhood including the Isle of May
1948
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Comprehensive guide and history to Crail and the surrounding area including the Isle Of May. The guide is illustrated with photographs of the various local features and includes many advertisements for local businesses.
Main title:
Official guide to Crail and the neighbourhood including the Isle of May / originally written by the late Reverend John Jackson, Crail, revised and, in part, re-written by the late J. Gordon Dow, Town Clerk, Crail.
Edition:
Revised edition.
Imprint:
Cupar : J. & G. Innes, [1948].
Collation:
74p. ; ill., phot. ; 18 cm.
Contents:
Crail: Situation-Derivation of Name-Salubrity, General Features, The Old Coaches-Railway, Bus Service-Golf, Balcomie Links-Bowling, Tennis-Putting-Bathing, Boating and Fishing, The Library-Marketgate, Town Hall, Crail Cross, High Street, The Castle, Castle Walk-Nethergate, The Priory, Roome Bay-The public School-Victoria Gardens, The Sauchope Stone, Churches-St David's Church-Auld Kirk, Archbishop Sharp, Churchyard, The Blue Boulder, The Blue Stane O' CrailAnnals of Crail: Earliest Relics, Rotal Recognitions, Burgh's Liberties, Burgh's Industries, Crail Capons, Industrial Depression, Revival of Fishing Industry, Weaving-Military and Political Episodes, National Covenant-Country's Defence, Jacobite Sympathies-Parliamentary Representation, Former Crial NotablesNeighbourhood: The Walk to Fifeness, Kilminnin-Rocket Life-Saving Apparatus, Danes Dyke-Constantine's Cave, Fifeness, Craighead Quarry-Balcomie Castle, The Walk to Caiplie, The caves of Caiplie, Cellardyke and Anstruther, Kilrenny, ExcursionsIsle of May: Extent, Name-Earliest Reference, Adrian, Monastery Founded-Recovery From English, Ruins, Proprietorship-Old Lighthouse, New Lighthouse, Electric Light-Oil Reverted To-Water, The Visit to the Island-Bird Observatory.Plates: Sketch Plan Of Golf Course - Folded at Front, The Harbour, Club House - Balcomie Golf Course, Balcomie Golf Course, A Skip Points the Way, Parish Church and War Memorial Gates, St David's Church and Victoria Gardens, The Harbour - A close view, Roome Bay, Balcomie BeachIllustrations in Text: Club house - Balcomie Golf Course, Town Hall - From Etching by D. W. Lorimer, Crail Cross, Archbishop Sharp's Signature, Crail Church Before 1815, Teh Sculptured Cross, Fifeness Point, Balcomie Castle, Melville's Manse - Anstruther, Dr Chalmer's Birthplace, Isle of May.
Dewey class:
145
Language:
English
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BRN:
3455434