Glenrothes

Glenrothes is one of the Scottish new towns, created in the post-war era circa 1948, from an amalgamation of small farming communities. Originally the main industry in Glenrothes and the surrounding area was paper-making and coal mining, and it was populated by mining families moving from the West of Scotland, particularly the Glasgow area. However this has now been superseded by a plethora of electronics factories. Since its development, the town has become the centre of Fife Council's operations. Fife House and other Fife Council buildings are situated in Glenrothes' town centre.

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New town - 1948 - Coal mining - Scotland - Glasgow - Fife House

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There is an area in Collydean which hosts a ruin of a castle-like house which was called Pitcarin house. Pitcarin house ruins show that the house was a large rectangle shape and part of it's ruins is on a street corner. It looks like it must have been two floors high - but extremly small inside. It would have been in history situated on top of a hill which now has a bridge built across it to enable people to walk into the Cadham area of Glenrothes.

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Collydean - Pitcarin house - Cadham

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Famous People include the trumpeter John Wallace, the actor Dougray Scott and Henry McLeish, the former first minister who lived there, having been brought up in neighbouring Kennoway. Glenrothes town centre is home to the building involved in the notorious "Officegate" scandal, which led to his resignation in 2001.

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Henry McLeish - Kennoway - Officegate - 2001

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Glenrothes' twin town is Böblingen in Germany. Glenrothes High School has operated a school exchange with the Albert Einstein Gymnasium in Böblingen for several years.

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Glenrothes High School - Albert Einstein Gymnasium

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Glenrothes-with-Thornton railway station (shortened to Glenrothes on tickets) is located in the village of Thornton, between Glenrothes and Kirkcaldy. Markinch railway station is also quite close to Glenrothes, although visitors arriving from afar by train should alight at Kirkcaldy and travel onward by bus.

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Glenrothes-with-Thornton railway station - Thornton - Markinch railway station - Kirkcaldy

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