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An important part of the shop is the Sub-Post Office. Many small shops

and post offices are closing and the only way to make sure that this does not

happen in Strathkinness is to support them. Their loss would be felt especially

by the older inhabitants of the village who in spite of a bus service cannot

always easily get into St. Andrews.

Roy and Ann Verner are carrying on the tradition set by the Galloways.

The are hard-working, and always friendly and cheerful.

‘The Tavern’.

Up until the middle of the 1940s there v~ere at least two pubs in the village.

Today there is only one — at the top of Main Street where two turnpike roads

met and where there was a toll bar from about 1811 to 1865. Part of the old

weighbridge for weighing coal and stones from the quarries can still be seen in

the wall of ‘The Tavern’ on the Main Street side and on the High Road side

there is a large iron ring where horses were tethered at one time. ‘The Tavern’

has been run by David and Jean Coutts since 1980.

As well as being a friendly place where people meet, ‘The Tavern’ raises

money for various causes. Each year a large bottle, into which people have

been putting their change, is broken, with the contents going to the Social

Club (an organisation for Senior Citizens) for their summer outing. In 1985

they collected over £200. ‘The Tavern’ has also raised funds for a guide dog

for the blind.

‘The Tavern’ sponsors a football team, appropriately called ‘The Taverners’,

In 1985 they had an unbeaten record.

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