Exhibition celebrates Kingsbarns

The Citizen, 22 September 2000

The village of Kingsbarns is celebrating this weekend.

On Saturday and Sunday, September 23 and 24, the event, part of the millennium celebrations, turns the spotlight on the village.

The exhibition is to be held in the newly renovated Memorial in Kingsbarns which was officially opened last month by the MP for North East Fife, Menzies Campbell.

There will be exhibits on the Kingsbarns Golf Links - the original one and the newly opened one; the village school - which is the oldest working school in Fife - including a 'Scottish Education Department Merit Certificate' presented to Elspeth D Martin in 1901 by head teacher, Roderick McKenzie, and on HMS Success - which was a British Destroyer wrecked at Kingsbarns beach during the first world war - the sailors were given refuge in the local school.

Andy Sherriff, Anstruther (originally from Kingsbarns) has lent a table which his grandfather made out of flotsam from the ship, as well as a brass door lock. There are many old photographs showing village life through the ages.

Holiday snaps have been contributed by two sisters who came from Glasgow regularly to holiday in Kingsbarns between 1926 and 1937, and who learnt to play golf on the original course.

There is a cup and saucer with the Kingsbarns crest on it from 1930; a footstool with the same crest, weather vane which blew off the local church, candlesticks made by the local joiner, old postcards - some with the original Kingsbarns Sub Post Office stamp and an exhibit showing the geological history of Kingsbarns which has been put together by Dr Doug Benn, Geography Department at St Andrews University.

The exhibition is open from 12 - 5pm each day.