Creich and Luthrie North Fife

Creich church today 7th January 2010.

EXCERPTS FROM THE 1861 PAROCHIAL DIRECTORY FOR FIFE AND KINROSS

PARISH OF CREICH 150 years ago.

CREICH is a small Parish in the north of the County, containing the villages of Luthrie and Brunton. It reaches to within less than a mile of the Firth of Tay. It is bounded on the north by the parish of Flisk, on the east by Balmerino and Kilmany, on the south by Moonzie and Monimail, and on the west by Abdie and Dunbog. Its length northward is about three miles, and its breadth about two miles. The surface is a congeries of hills of various forms and sizes, none higher than about 550 feet above sea level, some being cultivated to the summit, others covered with wood, and others rocky or moorish. Two of the summits, Black Craig and Green Craig, command superb views of the bason of the Tay, away to the Sidlaws and the Grampians. The Parish is drained by the head streams of the Motray, a tributary of the Eden. Whinstone and graystone are quarried. The estate and castle of Creich, the ruins of which stand on the north end of the Parish, anciently belonged to the Bethunes, of which family was Janet Bethune, the Lady Buccleuch celebrated in the "Lay of the Last Minstrel," and Mary Bethune, one of "the Queen's Four Marys." The Rev. Alexander Henderson, celebrated for his great talents and staunch opposition to Episcopacy, was born in this Parish, in 1583. On a little eminence near the Church are the vestiges of a Roman Camp, with two lines of circumvalation, and about a mile further west, on a higher hill, is another of the same kind.

The Parish Church, which is near Luthrie, was built in 1830-32. It is a handsome structure, and contains 252 sittings. There is a Free Church, jointly for Creich and Flisk, at Brunton. In addition to the Parish School which is at Luthrie, there is a Free Church School at Brunton.

The inhabitants are chiefly employed in agricultural and other out-door labours; there are also a few weavers and other tradesmen in Luthrie and Brunton.

The POST TOWN is Cupar, with Sub-Offices at Luthrie and Brunton. The Sub-Post Masters are David Smith, Luthrie, and John Heggie, Brunton.- A walking postman leaves Cupar about 9.20 A.M., and delivers letters along the route by Moonzie to Luthrie and Brunton. He leaves Brunton on his return at 2.55 P.M., and Luthrie at 1.19 P.M., and reaches Cupar in time for the afternoon's earliest despatch. This has been superseded by a postman in a van from Cupar
though the delivery times have not changed.

Star Bank Luthrie North Fife. Star Bank which lies to the East North East of Luthrie.

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The River Tay North Fife Jan 6th 2010

4 pm today in low light conditions, so much so the pic is a tad out of focus. Och well. Anyway the accumulating ice can be clearly seen.

Ice sheets on the shore of The Tay at Flisk point 30 years ago. Another world and time that looks increasingly like it's happening again.

Ice building up on the shore and river.

The River Tay North Fife January 5th 2010

Newburgh and Mugdrum Island. Signs of ice beginning to accumulate on the water, it's possible that conditions, given the weather forecast that a return to views similar to the previous post will occur. Ahghh

The River Tay at Ballinbreich.


A quick sweep over The River Tay From Flisk North Fife today January 5th 2010.

River Tay ice North Fife

River Tay ice flows in the winter of 1980/81 taken at Newburgh and Flisk point. The river being tidal meant that ice would flow out seawards and return causing large build ups, as well as being visually spectacular it was the noise that remains impinged in my memory. the shots were taken on a 4x5" bellows camera on which the lens shutter froze up in the subzero temperatures. I hope the present prolonged cold snap dosn't lead to the same conditions.

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The River Tay Jan 3rd 2010

The River Tay today Jan 3rd 2010. I managed to drive out from Flisk, collect days of newspapers and much needed messages. On my way home, at Black-Earnside a family from Dundee were enjoying the delights of sledging from the road down to the riverside and as the Lady in the Picture remarked, "how nice it is to be out at play" also how thankful they were for having a 4x4 car to be able to get there.

Flisk North Fife Jan 2nd 2010

Flisk North Fife Jan 2nd 2010. It goes on and on, housebound and getting rather tedious, the road East and West have gradients of 1 in 10 curtailing journeys by car without 4x4 or snow tyres.

Across the River Tay to Dundee.

The readings are climbing pressure at 1008mb.Temp 0 degrees with 90%+ humidity.



There you have it just a wee bit better than watching paint dry.

Snow North Fife 2010

Snow, beautiful to look at, visually changing landscapes into Bruegelesque type scenes. The world becomes quiet, little movement. It's unusual to have snowfall so early in the year here in north fife if at all. The painting and posts below point to my meaning.

Hunters in the Snow, a painting by Pieter Bruegel the Elder. There are records that he was born in Breda, Netherlands, but it is uncertain whether the Dutch town of Breda or the Belgian town of Bree, called Breda in Latin, is meant. He was an apprentice of Pieter Coecke van Aelst, whose daughter Mayken he later married. He spent some time in France and Italy, and then went to Antwerp, where in 1551 he was accepted as a master in the painter's guild. He traveled to Italy soon after, and then returned to Antwerp before settling in Brussels permanently 10 years later. He received the nickname 'Peasant Bruegel' or 'Bruegel the Peasant' for his alleged practice of dressing up like a peasant in order to mingle at weddings and other celebrations, thereby gaining inspiration and authentic details for his genre paintings. He died in Brussels on 9 September 1569 and was buried in the Kapellekerk. He was the father of Pieter Brueghel the Younger and Jan Brueghel the Elder. Both became painters, but as they were very young children when their father died, it is believed neither received any training from him. According to Carel van Mander, it is likely that they were instructed by their grandmother Mayken Verhulst van Aelst, who was also an artist.

Icicles, There is snow, a slight thaw from ambient house heat which then turns into ice.

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