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Fifer, with your mention of Valleyfield, this looks to be one of the 3 coal mines in Perthshire,  mentioned in the 1866 report on the Scottish mining site earlier.

Perthshire
1 Comrie Dumblane Forth Iron Company.
2 Overton    Culross John Watson, Junior.
3 Valleyfield Culross Carron Iron Company.

Maybe Piggots Village was a local name given to land/housing connected to the Valleyfield estate?

Monica

Just what I was thinking Monica (I lived locally for 30 years did a lot of mines research for Mick Martin & I'd never heard of it) but many mining villages were little more than shacks/shanty towns which were left to fall down when mines 'ran out' or became unprofitable and I was wondering if Piggott's Village was a fore runner of High Valleyfield or part of Low Valleyfield? There are modern dwellings where a square/village could have been on the shore road in Low Valleyfield directly below High Valleyfield where the Estate began.

Also have to say Alexander Jamieson *is* on the 1851 (son unmarried 22 & miner) census at Comrie Cottage - possibly another clue.

There are literally hundreds of old mines in that area going right back to earliest times ie monks. Maps in Dunfermline library are most helpful as often the monks were quite good at keeping visual records.

May or may not be relevant but this link connects to the Valleyfield Estate (Sir Robt Preston) next village to Culross & Pigott family.  http://pigott-gorrie.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/pigott-family-of-dysart-queens-county.html

Worth looking in the area of the Valleyfield Estate perhaps?

Thanks for all the replies  I'll get the chap to check this thread something may trigger his memory!

As listed in Old Glasgow Pubs in 1899 > 59 George Street corner of Shuttle Street- John Peters

Once known as The Cabmans Rest, can anyone remember what it was called in the '60s?

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Many thanks

Thank you so much! That local knowledge solves the puzzle of where my great grandmother was when she wrote her final postcard!

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