Fife Scotland: February 2008

Tuesday, 26 February 2008

St Andrews Fife Scotland Posters

St Andrews, Fife, Scotland, Posters, including St Andrews Old Course, St Andrews Cathedral, St Andrews Harbour, St Andrews West Sands. St Andrews Posters.

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Friday, 22 February 2008

Bowhill Colliery Cardenden Fife Scotland

Old Bowhill Colliery, Cardenden, Fife, Scotland.

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Saturday, 16 February 2008

Country Cottage Kilconquhar Fife Scotland

Country Cottage for sale in Kilconquhar, Fife, Scotland. Delightful country cottage. South facing sheltered garden. Successful holiday let. Sympathetically upgraded accommodation. Drive. Pleasantly located within heart of village. Living room. Kitchen/dining room. Two double bedrooms. Contemporary shower room. Spacious former wash house/utility. Well maintained mature garden. Drive. Gas central heating. Pagan Property Services, Solicitors and Estate Agents, 106 South Street, St Andrews, Fife, KY16 9QD.

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Friday, 15 February 2008

Cairnie Cottage Colinsburgh For Sale

Cairnie Cottage Colinsburgh For Sale in Fife, Scotland. Magnificent detached home. Set amidst substantial grounds. Wonderful open outlooks. Secluded semi-rural location. Charming adaptable accommodation. Open fires and wood burner stoves. Living room. Sitting room. Dining room. Kitchen/dining room. Conservatory. Four bedrooms. Bathroom. Shower room. Utility room. LPG heating. Double garage. Pagan Property Services, Solicitors and Estate Agents, 106 South Street, St Andrews, Fife, KY16 9QD.

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Tuesday, 12 February 2008

Fife Snowdrops

Fife Snowdrops. 1st February - 9th March. Snowdrops, snowflakes and aconites carpeting the 70 acres of woodland at Cambo Estate, near St Andrews on the east coast of Scotland, are the focus of our renowned snowdrops in 'the green' mail order business.

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Sunday, 10 February 2008

The Fife Anthology

Fringe of Gold. The Fife Anthology. This is the first ever anthology of writing about Fife, a part of Scotland with an immensely rich tradition of history and literature. It gathers together all of the great characters of Scottish history who have acted out their dramas within the famous Kingdom of Fife, St Margaret and Alexander I, James VI and the Earl of Moray, Cardinal Beaton and Archbishop Sharp, Mary Queen of Scots and John Knox. Here too are the many great writers, from Robert Henryson to Robert Louis Stevenson, Walter Scott to Thomas Carlyle, all the way up to Ian Rankin.

All walks of life are represented here, the whalers of Kirkcaldy and the miners of Lindsay Colliery; ambulance men and Hammermen; witches and magicians; golfers and distillers. The background to their lives, the fine castles and cottages, pretty villages and scenes of rural beauty are celebrated in wonderfully varied prose and poetry. Anyone who knows and loves Fife will find here a collection of vivid and entertaining writing that unfolds the full splendour of Scotland’s fringe of gold. Fringe of Gold: The Fife Anthology.

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Lady Anna Mackenzie Balcarres Castle Fife Scotland

Lady Anna Mackenzie, daughter of Lord Seaforth, was born in 1621. Famed for her beauty, she married the Earl of Balcarres when she was nineteen, but her happy life at Balcarres Castle in Fife was shattered by the Civil War. Following the death of Charles I, Balcarres raised an army to fight for Charles II. Defeated by Cromwell he fled with his wife to Holland where, reduced to great poverty, Anna 'the angel of the exiled court' became a governess to Prince William of Orange, later William III. Balcarres died tragically in his wife's arms.Returning to Scotland to struggle with financial and familial difficulties - as her correspondence reveals - she managed to save the family estates from bankruptcy for her surviving son, before she married Archibald, 9th Earl of Argyll. Too soon tranquillity vanished again as Argyll conspired with Monmouth to overthrow James VII. Upon his capture he was beheaded. Countess Anna, imprisoned, was spared execution. She survived to remain as the mainstay of her family until her death at the age of eighty-five in 1707. Anna, Countess of the Covenant is an extraordinary account of an extraordinary woman in one of the most fascinating periods in Scottish, British and European history. Anna, Countess of the Covenant.

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