1900
Yesterday afternoon, Mr Angus Sutherland, the chairman of the Fishery Board, arrived at Anstruther by the steamer Brenda and had an interview with Provost Thomson and other members of Kilrenny Town Council in regards the position of Cellardyke harbour. Mr Sutherland intimated that Provost Welch, St Andrews, who held an enquiry about the harbour some time ago, had sent in a favourable report, and the Fishery Board had practically agreed to give grant of £1000, if the other money necessary for the proper repair of harbour was raised locally, and that the Town Council obtained a provisional order in the next session of Parliament and got Legal power to extract shore and harbour dues from the fishermen using the harbour after restoration, and thus provide a revenue for its upkeep in the future. Provost Thomson and the Council willingly consented to the conditions, and Mr Sutherland promised the council to let them have official notification from the board at their next meeting. Provost Thomson Thanked Mr Sutherland and the Fishery board for the interest they had displayed in Cellardyke and its harbour
1901
James Peterson Wallace, a Cellardyke fisherman belonging to the Fife boat Morning Star, effected a most gallant recent from drowning of a boy in Yarmouth Harbour. The Morning Star was moored opposite the Fish Wharf when the alarm was raised. The boy had fallen over the quay, passed beneath the keel of a steamer, and rose to the surface again some eighty yards down the harbour. Wallace, hearing shouts from the crowded fish market, though wearing sea boots and heavy clothing, unhesitatingly plunged into the water and saved the boy, who seemed dead. The Morning Star’s crew took the lad below, and after prolonged exertions restored him to consciousness. Representations are being made to the Royal Humane Society to recognise Wallace’s heroic act. He was cheered by hundreds of admiring spectators.
1903
Grocer and Wine Merchant’s business for sale
The SUBSCRIBERS invite OFFERS for the GOODWILL of that LICENSED GROCER’S BUSINESS, JAMES STREET, CELLARDYKE, presently carried by ALEXANDER CATHRO.
Offerers will require, in tendering for the Goodwill, to Offer for the Heritable Property in which the Business is carried on. The Subjects consist of a Shop, assessed at £18, and Two Dwelling-Houses, assessed £8 and £5 respectively.
Fair Business has been done in the Premises by MR CATHRO. The Turnover Spirituous Liquors has been about 330 Proof Gallons per Annum. The Turnover in Beer is about One Barrel per week.
The Stock, which is Light and Fresh, will require be taken over by the Purchaser at Mutual Valuation.
For further particulars either to Messrs MACINTOSH, WATSON, & MURRAY, Solicitors, Anstruther, the SUBSCRIBERS, with either of whom Offers should lodged forthwith.
ROMANES & MUNRO, C.A. 50 Frederick Street, Edinburgh.
1905
The South Fishing
Last week the local boats and liners fished fairly well, the liners Nancy Hunham and Vanguard 3, having 100 and 90 crans respectively. Two boats the Pride of Fife and Morning Star of Cellardyke landed good shots, the former 80 and the latter 70 crans, On Friday the motor boat Pioneer landed a shot 74 cran Several other had good shots.
1907
The Rev. Peter T Thomson, Leicester, who has suffered seven days imprisonment as a passive resister to the education rate, is a son of Peter Thomson, draper, Cellardyke.
1909
An old woman named Mrs Sutherland, Cellardyke, applied for an old age pension to Kilrenny Town Council. Her claim was approved, but was refused by the pension officer on the ground that her husband received parochial relief, and that she participated in it. The Local Government Board upheld the officer’s contention, and the claim was refused. Questions were put in Parliament, and representations made to the board on the subject, with the result that another pension officer was sent Cellardyke to investigate. He has now admitted the claim, finding out that she did not participate in the relief granted her husband, and the Board have decided that she is to be paid the pension of 5s weekly from the 1st of August last..
Scottish Coast Mission, Berwick Branch
During the fishing season, nine open air services were conducted at Tweed Dock on Sunday afternoons. Some of the Cockenzie and Cellardyke fishermen gave short addresses and solos and quartettes
1912
Feared Loss of Ship’s Fireman.- Information was received at Cellardyke on Sunday that John Watson, fireman on board the steam drifter Guerdon of Cellardyke, had not been seen since Friday evening, and grave fears are entertained that he has met his death by drowning in the dock Yarmouth, where craft is at present engaged at the fishing. Watson, who is about 26 years of age, is unmarried, and is the sole support of his widowed mother, to whom much sympathy is extended.
1915
THREE CELLARDYKE SOLDIERS WOUNDED. Information has come to Cellardyke that the three local lads wounded in the recent fighting are all making good progress. They are Sergeant George Moncrieff, 4th Black Watch; Lance-Corporal Wm. Thomson, 8th Black Watch; and Private Thomas Martin, 2d Black Watch. Moncrieff was hit near the spine by two pieces of shrapnel, Thomson was wounded in the thigh and wrist, while Martin was “gassed.”
Fifeshire properties for sale
Dwellinghouse and shop situated at 21 John Street, Cellardyke occupied by John Deas (McRuvie) rental , £5, feu Duty Nominal
1916
CELLARDYKE. Put Not Your Trust Motor Cars.— Owing to a breakdown of the motor car in which he was travelling from St Andrew’s to conduct the services in Cellardyke Parish Church on Sunday, the Rev. Principal Galloway, D.D., did not arrive till about an hour after the prescribed time for the service to begin. This put the congregation in a very awkward predicament. Ultimately one of the elders, Mr David Smith, appeared, and, stating the cause of the minister’s non-appearance, gave out the first hymn, which was sung by the congregation. It was about twelve o’ clook before the Professor arrived in another motor car that had been requisitioned, and the usual service was then gone through. One of the hymns sung—“ Come unto Me, ye weary,”—had a special significance.
1917
Gunner James Burd, R.F.A., eldest son of Bailie Burd, Anstruther, and Private Andrew Dick, Black Watch, Forth Street, Cellardyke, are reported wounded.
Lieut. W. F. Wood, R.M., eldest son of the late Mr Andrew Wood, Anstruther, and nephew of Bailie Gay, Elie, has just been promoted to the rank of Captain. In civil life Captain Wood was on the staff of Messrs Gibson & Son, ship owners, Leith, where his home is. He is an old Waid pupil. He has been nearly three years on active service, and received his commission this year for meritorious work.
1918
THE INFLUENZA EPIDEMIC. The ‘flu is very prevalent in Cellardyke, mainly among the older people. Four of the teachers in the Public School have been prostrated with it, and the school has had to be closed.
Miss L. J. Smith, who for the past ten years has been a teacher at Moffat School, and has recently resigned, has been appointed assistant infant mistress at Cellardyke Public School.
Seaman Robert Thomson, son of the late Mr Alexander Thomson, fisherman, Cellardyke, has died in Plymouth Hospital of influenza. Seaman Thomson, who was only home on leave a fortnight ago, was a recorder in the Admiralty service when broke out, and at once joined up as a seaman in an auxiliary cruiser. He was 35 years or age, and leaves a widow and one child. The remains of Seaman Thomson were brought to Cellardyke, and were on Tuesday interred in Kilrenny Churchyard. The funeral was of a naval and military character. Large detachments of naval men and the local volunteers formed a feature of the cortege.