Share your local News & Views

We are making a call to members of the local community who would like to create and share their local news and views about Lochgelly and the surrounding areas. There are many local issues within the Lochgelly area, and many positive and negative developments and news, but due to time [...]

Blue alert! Bluebells on their way – and earlier than last year…

The Woodland Trust is calling for the public to find their nearest wood and record the first appearance of native bluebells, as it tracks the arrival: http://www.naturescalendar.org.uk/map/current.htm?rsid=164&reid=3&ry=2012&rs=S of the flowers across the country this spring. The conservation [...]

Homemade Dandelion Cordial

If your looking at trying something new and cheap this week why not make the most of the abundance of Dandelions growing about us in Lochgelly. Here is a really easy recipe to try and it makes for an amazing alternative to squash. Ingredients: As many Dandelion heads as you can get, [...]

Corporate Hospitality from Mossmorran

It emerged at the Lochgelly Community Council meeting for March, that Mossmorran has been offering and providing gifts and events, to community representatives that serve on the Mossmorran Community Liaison Group. This may also extend to local representatives that serve on other Mossmorran [...]

History

Local history, and history from the wider Fife area

Kingdom of Fife

1 year ago

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Blog-by McKintosh The Kingdom of Fife Fife (Gaelic: Fìobha) was originally one of the Pictish kingdoms, known as Fib, and is still commonly known as the Kingdom of Fife. One of the first ‘recorded’ mentions of the Picts comes from a Roman poem written in the late 3rd century AD, mentioning the [...]

Lochgelly War Memorial – History

1 year ago

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A video of the Lochgelly War Memorial being unveiled on the 3rd December 1924 by Sir Ralph Anstruther and Mrs Mary Hynes, has been published online by the Scottish Screen Archive and is available at: http://ssa.nls.uk/film.cfm?fid=0966 The video is 9 minutes and 15 seconds in length and shows a [...]

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Lochgelly Centre – Address To A Haggis

1 year ago

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One of the ways we keep up to date with news happening in Lochgelly is to monitor the Internet using Google Alerts (www.google.com/alerts) which will e-mail you alerts on any chosen keywords and is a free service. One of the Alerts we received was for an animation video created at a workshop in [...]

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New Video – VE Day

2 years ago

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VE Day (Victory in Europe Day) was on the 8th May 1945 and signifies the acceptance of the unconditional surrender of the armed forces of Nazi Germany by the Allies, this also marked the end of the Adolf Hitler’s Third Reich. The surrender of Germany was authorised by the president Karl Donitz who [...]

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New Video – Lest We Forget

2 years ago

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We have added a new video to our YouTube channel (available below). The footage is from the VE Celebration held at Lochgely Centre, year unknown, and shows people sharing their memories of World War II. Unfortunately, we have no names for the people featured, but if anyone recognises anyone in the [...]

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Lochgelly & Fife 1967 – Part 2

2 years ago

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This fascinating film, (in 2 parts), was uploaded to YouTube and depicts the local area and wider area, and gives an insight into the local mines. On the second part of the film, you get a glimpse of Berry Street, and how it used to be. The film is filmed from all over Fife, mainly in the [...]

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Lochgelly & Fife 1967 – Part 1

2 years ago

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Lochgelly (USA)

2 years ago

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Across the big pond, West Virginia, America, there is a small town named Lochgelly, and according to www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/genInfo.php?locIndex=23591 Lochgelly is in Fayette County, in the Oak Hill metro area. The community was named after town in Scotland So doing some searches through Google [...]

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Fife Policing History – Lochgelly

2 years ago

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Fife Constabulary have published “Fife Policing History – Volumes I, II, III” available at: http://www.fife.police.uk/Default.aspx?page=2864. We were surprised to find some very good local history mentioned in the publications and highly recommend people to visit their site and view the [...]

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