Hi
I hope you are all well.
I have added some photos to the Recently Added section of the BHPG website. http://benarty.org.uk/gallery3/index.php/Recently-Added/
Most of these photos come from John Ross, formally of Kirkland Park, Ballingry so thank you John.
If any of you have any old photos you’d like to share with others on the website please get in touch as I can scan photos you have or you can email them to me but get in touch and we’ll work something out. You can get in touch with me using the contact button on the website.
Regards

If you have visited the BHPG website recently you may have noticed the video gallery wasn’t working properly as a result I have changed the video player and the videos now work fine. I have also added two new videos, Ballingry, Lochore and Crosshill Children’s Gala 1955 and a video of the Queen visiting the Lurgi Gas Plant.
I hope you enjoy viewing these new additions and if you have any suggestions or comment please get in touch.
Many thanks
Mike

“COWDENBEATH & KELTY ECHO”

13 editions of the Cowdenbeath & Kelty Echo from 1900 have been added to the website and can be viewed by going to the menu button ‘A Wee Keek Back’ and then selecting Cowdenbeath & Kelty Echo Test Pages then select the edition you require.

These few digitised copies from the reels of 35mm Microfilms of this newspaper have been added to this site as an experiment, to find out if these PDF files are easily viewed by the people using this site.

Unfortunately, they are not searchable, but the reader should be able to browse them without any problem.  Just as you would be able to browse the 35mm reels of microfilm held in the Dunfermline Central Library, by using their Microfilm Reader.

The thinking is that if this exercise/experiment does prove to be successful, it would therefore be a heck of a lot more convenient (and comfortable) for people to use this system of viewing the old newspapers than having to visit the Central Library in Dunfermline.

I really do need, and respectfully ask for, your feedback and comments on how this wee exercise works out.

If it works out OK, then I’ll put the rest of the pages of the West Fife Echo (and also The Dunfermline Journal) I have on this site, where they will be FREELY available to everyone and anyone with access to the internet.

Jim Campbell

PLEASE GIVE ME YOUR COMMENTS AND FEED BACK BY USING THE ‘CONTACT BUTTON ON THE MAIN BHPG WEBSITE!!

Dr Oliver O’Grady gives a summary of the dig held at Inchgal Castle during August 2015. For more information please go to http://www.livinglomonds.org.uk/
There are more videos of the dig available on toutube

BHPG are working with the Living Lomonds Landscape Partnership, LLLP,  on the Inchgall Castle project in Lochore Meadows Country Park. In order to move forward with the project we need to raise money to help finance the work. If you’d like to contribute please use the link below to our Just Giving page.

https://www.justgiving.com/Lochorecastleappeal

New information regarding World War I and II fallen of the Benarty area has been added to the the website and can be viewed by going to the “More Historical Information” menu scroll down to War Information and then select from the sub menu on the right.

Cpl Hugh Kane DCM, MM & Bar has also been added to the Hall of Fame.

Thank you for continuing to use our website.

A message from Dave Blane regarding his research on the WWI & WWII dead from the Benarty area.

If you have any information on someone who died during the conflicts and who you would like recorded in the Benarty record please get the information to us before the 31st of July as this is the cut off date and anything received after this date will not be record in the area record.

Thanks

I have added a few new photos over the past couple of days and will be adding more shortly. The photos come from the Murphy and Ross Families.

I have also added a new document called Ballingry Parish History this document comes from Dr Simon Taylor’s series of books entitled Place Names of Fife. Dr Taylor has kindly given us permission to use the extract relating to Ballingry on our site and can be found by going to Historical Information then Ballingry then Ballingry Parish History or by clicking here

Finally if you have any photos or documents which are suitable to be place on our site please contact me.