Gardening at a height

This morning I walked to my appointment at the optometrist and noticed a cherry picker being manoeuvred beside the Station Hotel and on my way home the blip shows 2 men up high chopping down a large shrub that has been growing there for years. One of the extras shows the photo I took on my way past before they started the gardening. 

I suspect the Station Hotel has been there for many years not far from Cupar Railway Station but as a little bit of family history I was looking through some old ledgers of my grandfather when he farmed West Pilton farm at that time on the outskirts of Edinburgh. He came back to Scotland in 1928 after having been the manager of a rubber plantation in Malaya. In the ledger it shows that he supplied hay to the Cupar Station Hotel stables in 1931 presumably brought by train for the horses at a cost of 4 Pounds 10 shillings a ton ( £4.50 ) I must try to find out where the stables were. They moved to the farm in Fife in the 1940s  before the end of WW 2 .

On another page of the ledger ( extras )  it shows he supplied wheat straw to be spread on the Murrayfield rugby pitch in the winters of 1930 and 1931 for the SRU. My father did tell us about taking straw there by horse and cart when he was a small boy. I am not sure what straw is worth these days - certainly more than 50 shillings a ton ( £2.50 ) and it went up by 5 shillings the next year !