Community Info & History

Population statistics and a map of Lochgelly Read More

Lochgelly War Memorial is situated in Bank Street, in front of St Andrews church, directly across from the Regeneration Office. The memorial was built sometime in 1923-1924 (citation needed) and was unveiled by Sir Ralph Anstruther and assisted by Mrs Mary Hynes in December, 1924.Read More

Google Street View of Lochgelly Read More

The former Lochgelly Miners Institute was built with money from the Miners Welfare Fund during 1923 to 1925. They commissioned a Leven architect, D Haxton, who originally designed it as a single storey building, although the final design, became 2 storey, and incorporated the War Memorial. Read More

Their work and mode of living was the constant fire-side talk. We are the oldest race of miners that belongs to Lochgelly, and have been all born in that little old row of houses called Launcherhead, and the mines where they wrought were round about it. Read More

In folk-surgery, the bone-setter holds an accepted position. ” A’ body kens doctors ken naething aboot banes.” It is a matter of ” heirskep ” (heredity). The bone-setter’s father before him, or at least his grandfather…. Read More

The clock is stopped at death ; the mirrors are covered, sometimes also the face of the clock ; and a white cloth is pinned up over the lower half of the window… Read More

Wi’ your ee on your wark an’ your pooch fu’ o’ baccy.” (An adage on the best way to work. Auchterderran.) Read More

A list of common superstitions as recorded by an individual from the Launcherhead area. The sayings & superstitions were common for the Fife area, but are now very archaic. However there is a couple of superstitions that have managed to stand the test of time and are still used today. Read More

The following account of old-time marriage customs among the mining folk was taken down in 1903 from the description of Mrs. H., of Auchterderran, aged seventy-five. Read More

Of the three stages of life round which old customs and beliefs cluster, namely, marriage, birth, and death, the second has perhaps the greatest amount of folklore connected with it. Read More

Rubbing a birthmark with the dead hand of a blood-relation will remove it. Read More