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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.

New photos have been added and thanks to Lindsay Farmer for the photo of Ballingry Manse and Church and to the Murphy family for the other 3 photos.

If anyone has photos they’d like to share please email me. I’m looking for photos relating to St Kenneth’s RC Primary school for an exhibition later this year so if you have any please get in touch.

Thanks

A new video of Lochore House Youth Club has been added to the Videos Page. The film is another cine film from Jackie Scott’s archive and is entitled ‘Hamilton Party’. It is fitting that last person seen on the film at 13m 59s is Jackie himself.

I hope you enjoy it.

Thanks to John Ross for emailing me 2 family photos. The first was taken in Helensburgh around 1952 and shows Betty Ross, John Ross and Alex Ross.

The second photo shows John Ross, David Brough and (Sonny)Stevie Murray on a visit to Blackpool in 1960.

If you have any photos you’d like to share please email them to me. Thanks

Five new photos have been added to the Recently Added page. Thanks to Corinne McGinley for these. The photos relate to members of the Kirkby family.

If anyone has photos they’d like to share with us please contact me and I’ll arrange to have copies made of your photos.

Many thanks

A new name has been add to the Hall of Fame Sir John Clarke George, KBE, CstJ was a coalminer and politician. He was one of a very small band of Conservative Members of Parliament to have been working miners.

Benarty Heritage Preservation Group is holding an Open Evening on the evening of 18th November 2013 from 7pm to 9pm to which everyone is welcome to attend. The aim of the event is to showcase some of the projects that the group is currently involved in.  For example the Lochore Castle Project, the World War I Memorial Books, an exhibition of some of the photos the group have.

Some of the individually made books that the group have produced will be on sale during the evening and advance orders can be placed to purchase copies of which will be VERY limited editions of the various books being exhibited.