Grandpa was a miner

After clearing the grate in my parents' stove, i drove them for a day trip to Kirkcaldy where we were to meet up with Mum's cousin at the library and art gallery by the station. The Library, gifted by linoleum magnate John Nairn, was opened 4 months and 23 days after my mum was born in 1928.

Her dad (my Grandpa) had had to leave mining because of my young uncle's health, and had taken on a small fish restaurant on Thistle St by Volunteers Green. The Local and Family History room was open so we went in to see if the librarians could find for us records of the restaurant, and they could! One of them was in the Valuation Records, where we discovered the rateable value of the flat was £15 p.a. And of the business, £20.

90 years later, my mum the miner's daughter and retired actress and teacher, still burns coal but in a stove that would probably have surprised her dad.

All that and Colourists, and Wemyss pigs too!