Kirkcaldy is indeed the birthplace of linoleum - Nairn, for example, the
original manufacturer, was from Kirkcaldy (not Nairn!). And the birthplace
of Adam Smith. As Fife is the birthplace of golf!
http://www.thefifepost.com/floorcloth.html
Piers
-----Original Message-----
From: olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of John Hudson
Sent: 18 August 2004 22:58
To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [OM] Re: Gayton Northamptonshire #3
Does Gary mean to say that you enjoyed a layover in Kirkcaldy, Fife? Wasn't
that the home to one or more linoleum manufacturers that pumped out
obnoxious smoke and fumes.
Better to have been on the south shore of the Firth of Forth with one's OM
taking in places such as North Berwick and a round of golf at the Muirfield
links at Gulane just down the road.
Oh, for past memories.
jh
----- Original Message -----
From: "Gary Edwards" <zuikowarriors@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, 18 August, 2004 08:59 AM
Subject: [OM] Re: Gayton Northamptonshire #3
> Uh, no. My cameras continued on to Aberdeen with my wife.
>
> Gary
>
> Chris Barker <ftog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Gary
>
> I hope that you got some decent photos ...
>
> Chris
>
> On 18 Aug 2004, at 3:42, Gary Edwards wrote:
>
> > All I know about British train operation is that they lock the damned
> > doors at the most inopportune times. . .
> >
> > Gary Edwards (who enjoyed his unexpected layover in Kirkcaldy after
> > all)
> >
> > Chris Barker wrote:
> >
> > A few years ago Siddiq, not long after the ghastly Conservative
> > Government privatised the railway system - in the most disorganised way
> > imaginable by the way :-(
> >
> > Branson does not do a wonderful job at running his toc (train
> > operating company); why should he? The taxpayer is paying more to
> > subsidise him and the other 12(?) tocs than British Rail received as a
> > nationalised industry.
> >
> > Chris
> >
> <|_:-)_|>
>
> C M I Barker
> Cambridgeshire, Great Britain.
>
> +44 (0)7092 251126
> ftog at threeshoes.co.uk
> http://www.threeshoes.co.uk
> http://homepage.mac.com/zuiko
> ... a nascent photo library.
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