THE ARCHIVES

100 years ago

Cupar Town Council and their guests spent a delightful day at Clatto Waterworks yesterday. The inspection showed everything in excellent order and that the town possessed what Provost Stark at the luncheon described as a valuable asset. Responding to the toast of “Agricultural Interest”, Mr Andrew Smith, Ceres, said he farmed through the hard times from the seventies up to the war, when it required an able man to keep the ship’s head to the wind. It was different today as they could judge for themselves.

50 years ago

Two-year-old Patrick Campbell, of Fintry, Dundee, had a narrow escape from serious injury when he fell about 35 feet from a veranda at the rear of his top storey house. He is in hospital suffering from bruising. Patrick’s mother, Margaret, said she was in the living room when the accident happened. “My husband and I heard a child crying. I immediately thought of Patrick and rushed out of the room to look for him.” It is thought that the child pulled a deckchair on to the veranda and climbed over the guard rail.

25 years ago

Dundonians basking in the sun at the City Churches were transported back to the Middle Ages as a procession of black-robed figures, accompanied by heralds in glittering gold and scarlet tabards, men bearing banners and a black and silver Crusader’s sword marched slowly into Dundee Parish Church (St Mary’s). The occasion was the installation of the new head of the priory of Scotland of the Order of St John. The Grand prior of the Order, the Duke of Gloucester, flew in to Dundee for the ceremony.

One year ago

Children were flooded out of their classrooms as torrential rain battered parts of Fife yesterday. As the region was hit by flash flooding, thunder and lightning, youngsters had to be moved from parts of Burntisland Primary’s north wing. However, the school is expected to reopen as normal today. Other areas were also badly affected by the dramatic downpour, which left roads under several inches of water and householders counting the cost as drains struggled to cope with the volume of water. Kirkcaldy was worst hit.