The Smithy, Coaltown of Wemyss
The earliest evidence of a settlement at Coaltown is a stone dated 1645, taken from a house in Barns Row and incorporated in a new building erected on the site in 1912. In the 19th Century there were two villages called East and West Coaltown, but these had completely merged by 1900. The smithy stood on the south side of Main Street, and the bearded man in the centre of this 1905 picture is John Robertson the blacksmith. His son Jack is standing by the door.
(Text by Margaret Thomson)
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