Waid Academy, Anstruther
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Image: © Jim Bain Taken: 6 Apr 2006
The Waid was built with funds provided by Lieutenant Andrew Waid who died in 1804 leaving an endowment for a school for boys interested in joining the Navy. The school was built in 1886 and is still the secondary school for the area taking in all pupils from the local schools.