GRAVESTONE CONFERENCE

KIRKCALDY CIVIC SOCIETY

Photos from the 2006 conference...

Photographs by Don Swanson  

Speakers included:-

Hamish Brown, "The Covenanters"

Edwina Proudfoot "Markinch Church Graveyard"

John Harrison "Aspects of Graveyard Symbolism"

Anne McIntyre "Stained Glass Memorial Windows"

Rosemary Potter "History in the Stones in the Old Kirk, Kirkcaldy"

Kevin Dunion "Stories of Anstruther War Casualties"

Ann Watters "Graves Associated with Robert Burns"

There were two exhibition rooms at the conference.

Kirkcaldy Civic Society, Fife Mining Heritage Society, Fife Family History Society, Scottish Church Heritage

Fife Grave Stones Conference, Saturday 8th November 2008

Photos of  the  Kirkcaldy West Primary School exhibition at the 2008 conference...

Kirkcaldy West Primary School exhibited their work in Exhibition Room 1. Their display included Grave Studies (gravestone recording sheets), the children’s own poetry and artwork.

Maureen Sangster (Poet and Writer in Scots and English) had helped the children along with Mrs Ann Watters and staff from the school.

The children had focused on the Marjorie Fleming

gravestone in Abbotshall Church Graveyard.