1871
Some of the poor households in Cellardyke and the two Anstruthers are to have a seasonable friend in Mr Stephen Williamson of the firm of Messrs Balfour Williamson & Co Liverpool, and a native of Cellardyke, he is we understand to distribute about 50 pairs of blankets amongst the poor.
More boats are at present engaged in the haddock fishing from the coast of Fife than at any former period. By the return of the fishermen from the Norfolk herring fishing, The Cellardyke fleet this week has risen from nineteen to about fifty boats,
1875
Cameron Bridge
On Saturday the handsome sum of £17 was subscribed for at the Distillery in aid of the widows and children of the fishermen of St Monans and Cellardyke who were recently lost at sea during the storm. The firm contributed £10 and the employees the rest.
York herald – Sir Robert Anstruther has been energetic in his endeavours to bring the case of these poor people before the country and subscriptions amounting to nearly £2000 have already been raised.
A few days later – £3500 have been subscribed on behalf of the widows and children
Of the 37 Cellardyke and St Monans Fishermen lost. (Cellardyke men lost – James Murray, skipper unmarried, Andrew Stewart married four of a family, Alexander Lothian, married four of a family, William Briggs, married one child, James walker married and four Children, Hugh Mackay, unmarried and William Mackey unmarried.… second vessel Robert Stewart (Latto) skipper, married and family of 5, James McRuvie, Married leaves 4 Children, James McRuvie his son, un married, Leslie Brown aged 19 Un married, Alex Doig (Reid), married and six young Children, and William Stewart married and two of a family.
This is the disaster that the Fifies, Thane and The Beautiful Star from St Monans were lost and the memorial naming the Beautiful Star was placed in Kings Lynn.
1892
The other day one of our correspondents observed in a shop in Cellardyke a most striking freak of nature.. This was a Swedish turnip of stunted growth which had grown through the neck of a bottle and shaped like a fowl deprived of wings, the head was nearly complete. There was a beak and the under part resembled a plump chicken when plucked.
1895
Boundary dispute – The Secretary of State for Scotland has intimated his decision in the boundary dispute between the parishes of Anstruther Easter and Kilrenny……. The decision was given on Saturday last which is to effect that the parishes stay the same. The decision has been received with great joy by the Cellardyke people, while their friends in Anstruther are quite indignant over the matter.
1901
At a meeting on Wednesday two alternative plans for additions to Cellardyke School by Mr A.C Dewar, Leven were submitted. It was agreed tom adopt one showing an estimated cost of £550, the additions including four rooms on the east gable, with headmaster’s and retiring rooms.
1916
John Thomson draper and Mr Allan, grocer, Cellardyke have been appointed members of Kilrenny Town Council in place of Mr Martin Gardner and Mr John Leslie who have retired.
1921
The Education Committee fully considered the question of reorganising primary education in the Anstruther area… they considered whether it would be financially sound to have a new school, central for the whole of the pupils, By means of reorganisation they would be able to do with two fewer teachers than at present, If they built a new school to accommodate 500 pupils it would cost approx. £12 000. They estimated they might get £3000 by selling both Cellardyke and West Anstruther Schools. If they did not build at the present time they would have to put an addition to West Anstruther School and carry out alterations to Cellardyke School. The cost of these would be £4500. The committee recommended the erection of a new school on the site immediately west of the Technical School, the said Tech School converted into an infant school for the accommodation of infants, from the whole district.
This all depended on whether or not the centralisation scheme could be voted through.