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History and literature meet at 15th-century Piteadie Castle, which now needs consolidation and renovation work to return to its former glory.
It’s not for the faint-hearted but, as long as you are brave enough, Piteadie Castle offers a rare opportunity to bring a historic property back to life.
For sale through Savills at £225,000 less than half the price of your average London home the building, a Scheduled Monument, is thought to date from the late 15th-century, although it was partly rebuilt in the 17th.
Once, it was a grand and wonderful structure. Now, however, it is a ruin, and needs plenty of work but at least the artist’s impression shared by the agents shows what it could become:
THIS week’s trip down West Fife’s Memory Lane looks at one of the most successful companies that operated in Dunfermline, the wholesale and retail grocery company Fraser and Carmichael. The Maygate shop of Fraser and Carmichael was added to over the years and was developed into a wholesale outlet with branches all over the central belt of Scotland, the north of England, as well as an outlet in Old Kent Road in London. The Fraser & Co shops in Dunfermline at one time included two in Pilmuir Street (one of which operated under the name of Fortune), one in Bridge Street, and one each in Canmore Street, Brucefield, Rosyth and Inverkeithing.
THE first photograph in this week s trip down West Fife s Memory Lane is of a view looking up Holyrood Place towards St Margaret’s RC Church, taken from where Sinclair Gardens roundabout is today. The buildings in the foreground have long since been demolished. The church is currently undergoing extensive remedial work, though the scaffolding that shrouded it recently has now been taken down, revealing what an impressive building the church is. Our next photograph is from the Press archives showing how the church looked in 1996 when it was floodlit against the night sky. In the early 19th century, the Catholic population in Dunfermline was very low, as noted in Chalmers History of Dunfermline: Roman Catholic congregation founded 1823. Having no resident priest, they meet in the houses of two of their number who conduct the usual services but of course do not perform mass. As numbers grew subsequently, a missionary priest, a native of Dunfermline who came from a well-re