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16/2/2021

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The newspaper piece above from the 11 February 1864 Fifeshire Journal summarises a curling match between Largo Curling Club and their counterparts from Kennoway. Winters were colder at this time, allowing annual schedules of curling matches to take place. This particular one "came off on Largo Pond". This was the rink adjacent to Largo House shown in blue on the 1893 O.S. map below. The occupant of Largo House at this time was Mrs Dundas Calderwood Durham, who clearly took an interest in 'the roaring game', as she watched at least some of this three-hour event. Largo emerged victorious.

Above in an image of another 1860s match from Fife - one held at Raith Lake in Kirkcaldy - from the book 'Curling: An Illustrated History' by David B Smith. It gives an impression of the fashion and the equipment in use at the time. Such a match required an umpire and filling the role on Largo Pond in 1864 was well-known character 
Nicol Malcolm, a farmer from Dubbieside (Innerleven) and a curler with Leven's club. He had a hand in the establishment of Lundin Golf Club in 1868. Below is a memorial to Nicol from the 1900 Fife New Almanac, some years after his death, complete with a photograph of him taken by John Patrick. 

More on the history of Largo Curling Club to follow...


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John Band
16/2/2021 09:49:40 am

My G G Grandfather William Bethune was treasurer of Largo Curling Club in July 1897 when the AGM was held in the Simpson Institute, Upper Largo. During the club annual dinner held in The Commercial Hotel February 1900 the seasons trophies were awarded and William Bethune came 3rd.

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Alistair Bryden
17/2/2021 08:09:02 am

I recall there was also an old curling pond below the Ladies Golf Course...was it fed by the burn? Affiliated with the gold club?

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Vintage Lundin Links and Largo
17/2/2021 08:38:25 am

Yes, there was a two-rink curling pond close to the 9th tee of the Lundin Ladies Course. Fed by the Hatton Burn, the sluice was opened in October to flood the pond and it remained filled until April each year. Not sure how closely affiliated it was with the golf club nor how it came to be sited at that location - something to look into!

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John Band
17/2/2021 10:03:20 am

The first Ordnance Survey map to show the Lundin Links pond by the Ladies Golf course appears to be the edition surveyed 1912 and published 1914.


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