BARON BAILLIE PLAQUE

KIRKCALDY CIVIC SOCIETY

Mr Tom Carmichael unveils the plaque

The Baron Baillie's house with outside stairs

Links Street 26th May 2006

On Friday 26th May 2006 at 3pm KCS unveiled a plaque marking the site of the Baron Baillie's house in Links Street, Linktown.

After an opening speech by Mrs Watters Mr Tom Carmichael, a descendant of a Baron Baillie, unveiled the plaque.

Councillor Alice Soper gave a speech after the unveiling and Mr Galloway gave the Vote of Thanks.

The Abbey Hotel, at the junction of Milton Road and the High Street, was the venue for tea and biscuits after the event.

Before 1876 the Linktown of Abbotshall, as the area was known, was a seperate Burgh from Kirkcaldy. The Baron Baillie was the chief official and lived in a house which was also the tolbooth (a jail)

Nowadays the area where the house stood has changed considerably with the new development of Links Street and is almost unrecognisable.

Photographs by Don Swanson, Anne McIntyre & from the KCS archives

Plaque by KCS and Kingdom Housing