7-9 at the Heritage Centre.

Sunday’s pavement sweep was slightly delayed when this vehicle found its way blocked by a leaning pole!

It had to reverse.

This is an updated version of the panel (near The Beacon) that faded away many years ago.

Modified artwork by Ian Archibald of the Heritage Centre.

Printing and laminating by the Print and Sign Centre in the High Street.

Previously –

Great day for visiting Burntisland and ideal conditions for drone flying.

Scottish Drone Pilots enthusiastically promote safe and considerate (and legal) drone use.

https://m.facebook.com/groups/163615617488976

Aerial drone shot of The Lammerlaws © Dave Kerton.

Burntislanders are used to looking across the Forth to see fires on Arthur’s Seat, and sometimes the Pentlands.

Today it’s the hillside on Dunearn alight, probably due to the dry weather.

The Fire Brigade attended.

(Poster in Co-op)

Friend of the Trust, Connie Plant, proofchecks for mistakes – any not corrected will be deliberate and local children will be encouraged to spot them.

“The 10 week exhibition will run from 16th June to 25th August inclusive, and will be open on Wednesdays from 1.00pm to 4.00pm and on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays from 11.00am to 4.00pm.

The exhibition is housed at Burntisland Heritage Centre, 4 Kirkgate, Burntisland (just round the corner from the main door of the Burgh Chambers in the High Street). Also available for viewing and browsing are videos and large collections of other types of historical material relating to the town’s fascinating history. Admission is free.”

https://www.burntisland.net/heritage-trust.htm

Sun, shows, tourists and hanging baskets installed by FAB people.

“Collinswell was built in 1826 by the Young family who were local distillers and landowners. It is built in classical Georgian architectural style using locally quarried Culloae stone.

The house was bought in 1913 by British Aluminium for the local managing director and was later used as a staff clubhouse between 1957 and 1977. For the next 20 years the house lay unused and boarded up until in 1997 it was bought by the current owners who restored it from the ground up.”

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-54693699.html

Owned by Zander Williamson whose company developed the Collinswell Park estate on the former Alcan site.

https://www.burntisland.net/alcan-site.htm

https://www.fifetoday.co.uk/news/the-future-is-looking-so-much-brighter-1-165387

John Gifford who wrote the Fife volume of The Buildings of Scotland, published in 1988, was a bit underwhelmed (though the building was presumably empty at the time).

“Colinswell (his spelling) House. Charmless early C19 box. Was the cresting on the roof a last-minute attempt to give it interest?”

Probably the most expensive house in Burntisland.

Two weeks after the incident involving nearly 40 young people, a CCTV van plus a police car patrolled the town this evening.

Some people in the large group (mostly not Burntisland residents) were involved in vandalism and violence (two arrests were made).

The assaults were caught on a resident’s camera and went viral after being put on Facebook. Subsequent press coverage made the most of this. The Sun helpfully added a Google Street View picture of the wrong end of Lammerlaws Road!

Local MSP David Torrance met Police Scotland

Also – “dozens of local residents have taken to social media to voice their love for their home town, and they are calling on people not to let a tiny minority spoil it for the vast majority of law abiding citizens who are very proud of where they live.” (FFP story)