Old Photographs Leslie Fife Scotland

Tour Scotland wee video of old photographs of Leslie, a large village and parish on the northern tip of the River Leven Valley, to the west of Glenrothes in Fife. Little is known about the history of Leslie before 1300. The village which bears the name of the Leslie family area descended from Bartolf or Bartholomew who was a Hungarian or maybe Flemish tradesman, who according to legend arrived in Scotland with Queen Margaret, the sister of Edgar the Ætheling in 1057. Finding favour with Queen Margaret’s husband, King Malcolm III, Bartolf became the governor of Edinburgh Castle and was knighted and granted with lands in the Garioch in Aberdeenshire. The main industry in Leslie was paper making, in the form of what was known as Fettykil Paper Mill, operated by Smith Anderson, which continued into the 21st century. Leslie House was built for the Duke of Rothes between 1667 and 1674 and this became the seat of the Rothes family.