1932
Cellardyke Model Yachting Trophy
Cellardyke Town Improvement Committee has received gift from Mr G. W. Wortley, of Falkirk. It is in the form of a beautiful silver cup to be named the Sherriff Cup, and to be used for model boat sailing. The condition laid down in connection with the Sherriff Cup competition is that boats must be made locally and sailed by the builder. Already many hands have been at work, and on the return of the fishermen from the south some exciting races are looked forward to. The new bathing and yachting pond at Cellardyke is now completed and is expected to largely patronised both as a model yachting pond in the winter and bathing pond in summer.
1933
SEQUEL TO “MYSTERY TOUR.” A fine of 20s was, at Cupar Sheriff Court on Tuesday, imposed upon Robert Stewart Forrester, general manager of the General Motor Carrying Co., Ltd., Kirkcaldy, for allowing a ‘mystery tour ’ to be run from Crail through portion of East Fife and back to Crail without an appropriate road service licence. Robert Small, ’bus driver. Park House, Anstruther, and Alexander Reekie Young, engineer, 42 West Forth Street, Cellardyke, the drivers of the ‘bus, were admonished. Mr R. W. Currie, solicitor, Dunfermline, said no one booked from St Andrews, the place from which they had a licence to run. Bookings had been made at Crail, and so it was run from there. To comply with the licence the ‘bus would have required to be run empty from Anstruther to St Andrews and from St Andrews to Crail before the passengers were picked up. After setting down the passengers again at Crail it should have returned to Anstruther via St Andrews. His Lordship—ls that why it is called mystery tour “.? (Laughter.)
1934
PETROL ABLAZE IN FIFE GARAGE £600 Damage at Cellardyke An alarming outbreak of fire occurred on Saturday night in the garage at Holmsgarth, Cellardyke, the residence of Mr Win. Myles. As result the garage and two cars were totally destroyed. The damage is estimated at £600. William Myles, jun., and his brother John had just returned to the garage with one of the cars after having it filled with petrol, when they discovered leak in the petrol tank. They were running off some of the petrol when the fumes became ignited and the car burst into flames. William Myles was severely burned about the hands and face, and required medical attention. In a few minutes both cars were involved in the blaze, which rapidly spread to the roof of the garage. The local fire brigade was quickly on the scene, and succeeded in extinguishing the fire before the arrival of the St Andrews Brigade. The roof of the garage, however, collapsed.
An accident which was said to be due to an erroneous signal by a pedestrian resulted in a Cellardyke man being fined. He was David Brown, bus driver, 55 Toll Road, Cellardyke, and he admitted that on September 28th on Main Street, Colinsburgh, he drove a motor bus without due care by failing to keep a proper look-out when emerging on to Main Street, Colinsburgh, whereby the bus collided with a motor lorry driven by David Martin, 65 Sutherland Street, Kirkcaldy. He was fined 10s. Mr L W. McInnes, W.S. Cupar, on his behalf, said that as accused approached the junction of the roads he got a signal from a pedestrian at the corner to go on, and he took it that the road was clear. The cause of the accident was the erroneous signal given by the pedestrian.
Scots Boats’ Big Catches At Yarmouth – FIFE CREW LAND 238 CRANS Peterhead Drifter Loses 30 Nets By A Special Correspondent.
Sunday herring fleet’s deliveries at Great Yarmouth yesterday exceeded 15 000 crans, the Agnes Gardner (KY Cellardyke boat landing a total of 238 crans The skipper had to leave 100 crans in the sea as he was loaded to capacity. Industry a Peterhead drifter brought in 200 crans and lost 30 nets as a result of the thick shoals.

Fresh herrings at first realised 19s per cran but the big supply caused values to fall and many sold at 10s to 17s per cran with Is – per cran for overday’s
To restrict the landings the drifters — commencing to-morrow — will be prohibited from leaving Lowestoft and Yarmouth after 2 pm each day until 6 next morning. Yesterday’s big catches again revealed the serious state of the market and a review of the first week of the season shows all too plainly that conditions this year are much worse than the fishermen had anticipated In four days the price per cran for good quality fish dropped from 30s to as low as 12s and many fishermen whom I spoke to in Yarmouth to-day said that unless the prices rise considerably this week they will have no other alternative than to leave The drifter owners cannot be blamed if they do decide to return to the northern ports before the season is over for the market is dead against them Some shots were sold at Yarmouth on Saturday as manure for 3s a cran
Wives Who Keep Their Maiden Names, How Problems Are Solved For the Postman By Dyke Fife.
MISS JENNY LEE has decided to keep her maiden name for public and professional purposes after the Bloomsbury Registrar has made her Mrs Aneurin Bevan to-day. But the Lochgelly young lady is not breaking fresh ground this respect. Many women writers continue to be known by their maiden names, well as actresses like Sybil Thorndike (Mrs Lewis Casson), and advocates like Miss Margaret Kidd (Mrs Macdonald). But indeed, this is no monopoly of the “intellectuals,” nor is it a custom of recent origin. It is as old as the hills, and is still generally prevalent in such places as the fishing communities of the East of Scotland. In the East Neuk. round the ports that fringe the East Neuk of Fife and you will find in Cellardyke, Pittenweem. and St Monance how tenaciously the maiden name of a woman adheres to her all through her married life. Take a fictitious example. Jean Watson may become Mrs Thomson, but Jean Watson she will remain to her townsfolk till ” the end of the chapter.” Her family, indeed, will known as ” Jean Watson’s bairns.” Even her husband, if his name happens to be duplicated in the town, will be referred to as ” Jean Watson’s man,” to distinguish him from 6ome other John Thomson. There is an interesting sequel to this last-named fact which is well worth mentioning. In many of our fishing towns a number of men often bear the same Christian names and surnames, and in order to differentiate them they are referred to in any legal document concerning them, as well as in the address of their letters, by their wives’ names enclosed brackets after their own. Sufficient Indication. example, the postman going his rounds might get a letter addressed “Mr Thomas Brown (Davidson),’* and another to “Mr Thomas Brown (Smith),” or yet third addressed, “Mr Thomas Brown (Anderson).” But the wife’s maiden name in brackets is sufficiently clear indication to the postman of the proper destination of the respective letters, even were the nances and numbers of the streets omitted from the addresses. This peculiar but interesting practice, moreover, is not just East of Fife custom. there would seem to some affinity in this matter between East fisher folk and the people of the Channel Islands, and even with certain native races in tropical countries. The women of Alderney. Guernsey, and Sark retain their maiden names after marriage, and a similar privilege is claimed the women of some African tribes, notably one in East Africa, where is superstitious belief that spirits would cast an evil spell over who exchanged her own name for that the man she married. There are some other tribes which have law providing that, although a wife may choose be known her husband’s name in private, that name, must on account substituted for her own in public

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