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Summer Exhibition 2025
An unexpected visitor to our exhibition on Thursday 21st Aug.
Anas Sarwar dropped into our exhibition on Thursday 21st., he was accompanied by MSP Clare Baker who lives in the town. He enjoyed our fossil exhibition, especially the 300 million year old Burntisland shark. Our volunteer, Gill Patterson, explained her roll in transcribing ancient documents belonging to the town. After a tour of the upper Chambers Anas thanked our volunteers for their contribution to the town.
Left to right- Claire Baker, Gillian Patterson, George McLauchlan, Anas Sarwar.
Picture of the Parish Church by J. Guy
The above water colour was donated by Ann Morrison (Robertson). It is a watercolour by local man Jim Guy. It joins two others of Jim's works in our collection. Jim worked in the Aluminium and would be best remembered as the local window cleaner in his spare time.
Photographic Miniature on ivory by Andrew Young 1914
This stunning miniature portrait on ivory was donated by Ian Freshwater, Bethany Christian Aid, Edinburgh. We have no indication of who the portrait is of. If you have any idea please tell us.
The information on the back says that it has been 'drawn', but the detail is so fine it looks like a photograph. It would need to be more closely examined. There was a method of transferring photograph to ivory in the 1800s. As Andrew Young was a photographer this may be the case. However, we have seen some other 'ivories' of his and they have been painted.
Reverse of backing sheet
One of our Summer Exhibitions
One of our Friends assisting at exhibition
Burntisland's People panel unveiling
King's & Queens unveiling
The Trustees held their final meeting as a Trust in preparation to becoming a SCIO (Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organization).
The above watercolours are by George Thomson, some people in the town may remember him as an art teacher at Burntisland Secondary School. He was a well known calligrapher writing on the subject and carrying out commissions. The above paintings, were donated to Burntisland Heritage, by Mr McCulloch, who's family owned the Sandhills caravan park in Kinghorn.
Antonia Laurence Allen presenting Ian Archibald with baton
The above watercolours are by George Thomson, some people in the town may remember him as an art teacher at Burntisland Secondary School. He was a well known calligrapher writing on the subject and carrying out commissions. The above paintings, were donated to Burntisland Heritage, by Mr McCulloch, who's family owned the Sandhills caravan park in Kinghorn.
Mr George Thomson
Special Constables Truncheon
Antonia Laurence Allen, Regional Curator for The National Trust for Scotland, contacted Burntisland Heritage early in January to enquire if we would like to receive a ceremonial baton which was in their collection at Falkland. We were delighted to accept this offer and the baton was duly transferred to Burntisland and the presentation took place on Friday 7th February.
We are currently looking into the history of the object and would be keen to hear from anyone with information.
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