From over 100 years ago, this photo was taken at Auchentibber Quoiting Ground, outside the former Auchentibber Inn. Pictured are the male toilets, a small rustic outdoor building made of wood, for the miners and visitors if they were “caught short”. This little building would have been approximately behind where the Auchentibber War Memorial […]
This is the former Beautiful gardens at Auchentibber. The scene is immediately behind the old Auchentibber Inn, and rustic wooden stairs lead up to the Rooftop Terrace overlooking the quoiting pitch. (Surely a great place to stand outside in Summer with a drink!) The arch underneath the stair is made of wood, clad in small […]
Referring to a little souvenir booklet from 1909 written by the workers who created the Auchentibber Quoiting Green and surrounding gardens, these words describe the vision and events leading up to the creation of the lovely gardens. “A Theory in Practice – About 10 years ago (1899), Auchintibber Inn came into the market and […]