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Lochgelly Memories

  • Paton family

    by D Madden 21 December

    Looking for Paton info. George st. Whiteinch,  now Medwyn St.  1907 - Thomas Paton & Margaret McClelland - James, William, Alex, Thomas…

Latest Comments on Lochgelly Memories

  • john miller

    RE: Looking for old friends -

    " there a dod bett and margo bett lives in lumphinnans" im pretty sure this is the brother/sister... more
  • Bryan Fraser

    RE: A HISTORY OF THE LOCHGELLY TAWSE

    I agree wholeheartedly with Andrew Kilparicks' posting. I attended a High School in Ayrshire in... more
  • john miller

    RE: Looking for old friends -

    hi again, there was aslo a guy called Davy Bryson, be about 50-52yrs anyone know him let me... more
  • Yeats Taylor

    RE: A HISTORY OF THE LOCHGELLY TAWSE

    A lot of rubbish gets talked about this subject. When I was a kid we spent our time playing up in... more
  • Just Jock

    RE: A brief history of Lochgelly

    Lochgelly is famous for J Dick making Miners Tallow lamps that is type shaped like a small brass... more
  • macpherson

    by john fox 6 December

    this was my cousins maiden  2 women who live in cowdenbeath? im youre cousin from s. wales uk...just wanted to no is youre parents still alive i know john is in new zealand ive tried on facebook to get in touch?…

  • Leslie Paper Mill

    by grace hunter 14 October

    Hi i am looking for a Duncan Kirkland  that worked there and then went of to Assie Land for a while my name is Grace he also had a sister who had a baby at the time we were together i now live in Bournemouth. Would really like to no how he is .…

  • James McGhee

    by grace hunter 14 October

    Hi James are you any relation to Duncan Kirkwood …

  • Looking for old friends -

    by john miller 14 September

    Looking for old friends -My name is John Miller and I stayed in Kirkcaldy in the 1980’s.I am...… 2 Comments

  • St Andrews Church

    by Linda Dobbie 20 July

    I was married there in 1975.  I didn't know the church was closed, My parents lived in Lochgelly all their lives apart from a little while in Lochore.…

    Remembering the miners' strike

    12 October

    Here's a picture from one of the bleaker parts of our local history - the miners' strike of 1984. If you have a story from that time, you can tell it here on s1lochgelly.…

  • JAMES McGHEE

    by JAMES McGHEE KIRKWOOD 11 October

    i was wondering if anyone remembers my Uncle James Mcghee former miner and was involved with the Local footy team in the area!…

  • A HISTORY OF THE LOCHGELLY TAWSE

    by J Mc 14 February

    There is no apparent local recognition of the role played by the Lochgelly tawse in Scottish schools in the 19th and 20th centuries, and no museum with a meaningful area dedicated to the history… 13 Comments

  • Isabella Watson Sinclair nee Lindsay to turn 100 on 14 Nov 2009

    by leonie sinclair 4 November

    Now living in Australia in Sydney, Isabella Sinclair nee Lindsay who was born at Broxburn Scotland and lived with her parents at South Street Lochgelly is turning 100. Her mother was Elizabeth Watson…

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