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Re: Slamannan?
« Reply #36 on: Wednesday 21 January 15 17:11 GMT (UK) »
Quote from: Istrice on Wednesday 21 January 15 16:59 GMT (UK)
Pittencrieff Park in Dunfermline

I don't think so.
http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/26
http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/402853
http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/103053
http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1686759
all show that the steeple on Dunfermline Abbey sits on a square tower which is much wider than the bottom of the steeple. The one in the mystery photo rises straight from the top of the wall of its tower.

Also http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2672551 shows that the Abbey isn't surrounded by trees, and there is no other building nearby with what look like the two chimneys in the mystery photo.

Also the Abbey sits at the top of a slope, and the land in the foreground of the mystery photo is flat.
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Re: Slamannan?
« Reply #37 on: Wednesday 21 January 15 21:04 GMT (UK) »
A bit lush looking for Slamannan, could be an institution and these guys work in it. A hospital, school or assylum, not Larbert, Woodilee, Gartloch or Lennox Castle, possibly long gone.

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Re: Slamannan?
« Reply #38 on: Thursday 22 January 15 09:24 GMT (UK) »
Quote from: daval57 on Sunday 08 July 07 00:51 BST (UK)
Can you recommend any sites that would give me some more background to Slamannan

I presume that you have read the Statistical Account and the New Statistical Account? And looked at the parish page on GENUKI?
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