village, apart from the cost, was considered to be insanitary. In 1923 Mr.

Robert Taylor, after complaining several times earlier, that ‘there was no way

of draining the houses on the east side of Main Street except by the ditches,

and in dry weather some degree of offensiveness arose’ was told ‘it is quite

practical to dispose of waste water on the garden as is done in other parts of

Strathkinness and other villages’.

The proposed plan of a series of rams to pump water to the village was

too expensive to implement, but Mr. Younger had a ram installed for the use

of the Youth House built in 1909 and for Bonfield Farm which he owned.

It was not until 1956 that both water and a proper drainage system came

to Strathkinness. Even those who preferred the well water are pleased to

have proper drainage which, as Mr. Thom said in 1910, has been ‘the making

of the village.’

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