Tag: Lochgelly

Lochgelly ( listen (help·info); Gaelic: Loch Gheallaidh) is a town in Fife, Scotland. It is located between Lochs Ore and Gelly to the north-west and south-east respectively. It is separated from Cowdenbeath by the village of Lumphinnans. According to the 2007 population estimate, the town has a population of 6,834.
From the 1830s until the 1960s Lochgelly was a mining town. With the industry now dead the town has slipped into economic and social deprivation as with other former mining towns. Lochgelly is now classed as town in need of regeneration “economically and socially” and has the cheapest average home price in Britain.
Lochgelly is also the home of the most reputed firm, John Dick (Saddlers), that produced tawses and was hence a synonym for that typically Scottish device for corporal punishment.
Lochgelly, as part of the old parliamentary constituency of West Fife, was known as “Little Moscow” up to the 1950s owing to its Communist political leanings.
An area of Lochgelly was…