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Toll Road, ANSTRUTHER, KY10 3BJ

Seen from Fowler Place

Looking west, towards Anstruther.

These buildings stood behind the guardroom on the domestic site of RAF Anstruther. All have now been demolished. The one nearest the camera is believed to have been the armoury and the others may have been part of the Police Flight which was normally very close to the guardroom. Thanks to Mr Dennis Anderson who served here in the 1950s for the information.

All the houses in Rodger Street are Category B listed https://britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/200397554-cellardyke-rodger-street-nos-10-14-38-even-nos-including-boundary-walls-and-ancillary-buildings-east-neuk-and-landward-ward#.W_gBgdSLTGg, this one being just one example of the 13 on the east side of the road. The street was built in the late 1870s/early 1880s as paired tenements for fishermen of the town; the houses had net-drying space in front of each, and storage sheds included at the rear along with attics for repair. It is named in honour of Alexander Rodger, a merchant sea captain and owner of tea clipper vessels in the middle of the 19th century, who made significant improvements to Cellardyke harbour in the 1860s.

The guardroom to the former domestic site of RAF Anstruther. Behind me were the barrack blocks for the RAF station which went on to see service as Anstruther's holiday village and have now been pulled down and a modern development is now taking place. The buildings to the right of the old guardroom on Toll Road were married quarters for other ranks. RAF Anstruther was part of the Chain Home system (CH). Chain Home was the world's first RADAR system to see active service. CH was developed in the pre war years by a team led by Watson Watt who to my mind was a bit of an unsung hero of the time. It was primitive, but when your back's against the wall you go with what you have got. In 1939 Britain did and CH worked. RAF Anstruther's operational site and its masts were, to the best of my ability, thought to have been in the area of NO5608. This area went on to become the site of the cold war "secret bunker". Totally open to corrections please email me via the site. Thanks to James Allan and Dennis Anderson for further information about the station.

Since this aerial photo was taken, many of these caravans have been removed and plans are afoot to develop a permanent estate of houses and shops, provisionally entitled 'Silverdykes village' on the site.

This area of Cellardyke still appears on OS maps as a holiday camp caravan site but is rapidly becoming a housing estate with new streets and new homes.

Cellardyke by the police station from the Pitkierie path.

Cellardyke's Church of Scotland Church on Toll Road from School Road. Don't you just love lamp posts, at least this one came with a critic.