This postcard shows the duck pond to the south of Tayfield House. This pond was excavated by spade and barrow at the end of the nineteenth century for the then William Berry’s collection of water fowl. It was altered later in the twentieth century, this time using a mechanical digger, to provide additional islands as ...
Abercraig, the first house on the river side of West Road, travelling west, was built in 1824-5 as the dower house for the Berry Family.
Tayfield duckpond, where children from the village have fed the ducks for over a century. The cairn is no longer there.
Another view of the duckpond.
This postcard from the early 1900s shows Tayfield duck pond.
A postcard of Tayfield House and rose garden. The summer house just visible on the left with its rather ornate windows. When the old Forgan Church closed in 1841, all the contents and even some of the structure were sold at auction. The windows found their way to the Tayfield summer-house!
The Den cottages were in an idyllic setting and were the subject of many picture postcards in the early 20th century.
A fishing permit for Mr Blyth Martin to fish the March Pond in 1904. The March Pond was on the back road to Tayport and marked the boundary, or march, of the Tayfield and Scotscraig Estates. The pond was perhaps better known by its other names of Jess Philip's dam or Washer Willie's pond.
These four photographs show Tayfield from north, south, east and west.
Nursery school photograph of the afternoon group at Tayfield Nursery, 1985.
Pony rides at Tayfield Nursery in 1971.
One of the annual photographs of Tayfield Nursery, with teacher Mrs Jo Mair, probably early 1970s.
This nursery, widely known as the Tayfield Nursery School, was held in rooms on the ground and first floors of Tayfield from 1963 to 1988.
Jim Smith was born and bred at Tayfield, and spent his whole working life there. In his final year in 2002 he looked back on his life and shared his memories with Gordon Small, who recorded them all. We are fortunate to have this astonishing record which covers everyday life on the estate to events ...
Brownie picnic in Tayfield grounds c. 1950.
A leaflet produced in 1974 by John and Bride Berry for visitors following a guided walk in Tayfield grounds.