Glenrothes is a ‘new’ town, none of the properties are much older than approx 70 years, with one or two exceptions. Therefore my closest ‘local‘ older houses, are the Greenside Cottages, which face onto Leslie Green. Leslie is a small village to the west of Glenrothes.
The Greenside Cottages are also known as Douglas Croft Cottages, and are some of the oldest properties in Leslie. The Green was originally common land (ie anyone living in Leslie could graze their animals there, free of charge), but unfortunately for the residents of Greenside Cottages, their houses were owned by the Douglas family of Strathendry. This meant the folk of the cottages had to pay a small yearly fee, for stepping out of their front doors!!! Thankfully for them, this situation didn’t remain for too long. Later residents had the privilege of being right next to Leslie Green. This was the focal point of community, the site being used for fairs and the weekly markets.
Greenside Cottages, Leslie
Chimneys and Roofs of Greenside Cottages, Leslie
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Great B&W photos here!!!
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Thank you Julie 🙂
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Fancy having to pay to come out of your front door, lovely photos 🙂
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It is an awful thought Lynne!!! Thanks for the compliment about photos 🙂
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Andy, you’ve done fine work showcasing these beautiful works of architecture. I love the little snippet of history here as well. So many times that really helps us develop emotion or a feeling about the photograph.
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Thank you Lori 🙂 I enjoy finding out about the subjects I photo, it makes them far more interesting hopefully, and I get to learn something about the local area too! 🙂 🙂
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Lovely shots and nice bit of history. These buildings remind me of so much of Fife: I’m feeling quite homesick.
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Glad you liked the photos and info Su, but sorry I made you feel homesick! 🙂
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Enjoyable homesickness. Not enough to make me endure 24 hours in a flying sardine can to indulge it. 🙂
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LOL!!!! 🙂
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We’ve passed them a few times and I’ve wondered the background because it is quite an unusal enclave! Really interesting.
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Did you know that the church is now flats?? And at the top end of the Green, there is a bull stone……………..it was supposedly used for tying bulls to it, when the Green still had fairs on it, the bulls were used for bull baiting 😦
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Ooooh nasty. No we’ve never stopped but I will one day and have a look around.
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It’s odd, I didn’t mind the church being converted into flats, it’s good it’s getting some proper use, but I did find it wrong because it’s got a graveyard at the back, and even though I’m not religious at all, it still seems wrong somehow.
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Lovely photos and an interesting history. I recently discovered that part of the primary school playarea in our neighbourhood in Glasgow used to be a common grazing area in the 19th century! Can’t imagine where people kept the animals, presuming they didn’t live on the grazing area all the time.
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Thank you Christine 🙂
One thing to remember, which may or may not be the case, Glasgow was much smaller at the beginning of the 19th century, so the area around the primary school may have had more common land than you think. But of course, you’re probably right, the folk using the common land probably had other jobs, they would keep one or two animals for their own meat/dairy needs.
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Such solid looking buildings! And character, which is sadly lacking in modern estates. 🙂
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I love all the old buildings Jo, unfortunately various Scottish councils seem more than happy to pull them down, and put up boring modern housing schemes or offices 😦
But thankfully, we still have a fair few nice old buildings left 🙂
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Hooray! 🙂
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