FIFE FAMILY HISTORY SOCIETY
"OLD ELIE AND EARLSFERRY"
Picture and text reproduced by kind permission of
Stenlake Publications
High Street, Elie
The architectural evolution of Elie High Street is
illustrated by this turn of the century postcard; the wall-height of
the buildings indicates their age, with the lowest dating from the
eighteenth century and the slightly higher ones from the first half
of the nineteenth century. The house and shop on the near left were
replaced in 1906 by the new premises of Robert Thomson, grocer and
wine merchant. Later proprietors of this shop were S.S.Melville in
the 1930's and William N. Speed in the 1950's. The old house three
doors up from it was completely rebuilt in the early 1950's.
(Text by Eric Eunson)