Gallacher sat for West Fife in Scotland, a coal mining region in which it had considerable support.

This effectively made the Fife Coal Company one of the largest coal mining concerns in Scotland.

Such was the upsurge in mining activity that the population of Cowdenbeath doubled ( 4, 000-8, 000 ) in the ten years between 1890 and 1900 and gave rise to the nickname " Chicago of Fife ".

Another significant mining-related building, which reflected Cowdenbeath's growing status at the forefront of mining technology, was the establishment of the Fife Mining School in 1895.

This was largely driven by a national energy strategy developed by the Government following the Second World War and was further developed in a report produced in 1946 by Sir Frank Mears to the Central and South-East Scotland Planning Committee which made the case for a new town in the Leslie-Markinch area to support growth in the coal mining industry in Fife.

He grew up in the mining community of Cardenden in Fife, and was educated at Denend Primary School and Auchterderran Higher Grade School.

The family settled in a small mining town, Crossgates, about a mile to the east of Dunfermline in Fife.

The museum of St. Andrews University in Scotland has in its collection a snuff box full of pubic hair of one of King George IV's mistresses, possibly Elizabeth Conyngham, which the notoriously licentious monarch donated to the Fife sex club, The Beggar's Benison.

The town is a major service centre for the central Fife area, home to a swimming pool, theatre, museum and art gallery, three public parks and an ice rink.

Prior to the 1890s Perthshire's boundaries were irregular: the parishes of Culross and Tulliallan formed an exclave some miles away from the rest of the county, on the boundaries of Clackmannanshire and Fife ; while the northern part of the parish of Logie formed an enclave of Stirlingshire within the county.

* The Royal Burgh of Perth originally formed part of the Perth burghs constituency along with burghs in Fife and Forfarshire.

The Shire or sheriffdom of Kinross was formed in the thirteenth century when the two parishes of Kinross and Orwell were removed from the Fothriff area of Fife.

* The Royal Burgh of Stirling formed part of the Stirling burghs constituency along with burghs in Fife and Perthshire.

On the same day the SSCUP was launched, the Scottish Pensioners Party was formed in Fife.

The district was formed by the local Government ( Scotland ) Act 1973 from part of the former county of Fife, namely:

Since June 2007 the Typhoons of No. 3 ( F ) Squadron have formed part of air defence of the UK along with RAF Leeming near Northallerton in North Yorkshire and RAF Leuchars near St Andrews, Fife, Scotland, both of which were equipped with Tornado F3 fighters but Leeming lost its last Tornados in 2008 with the disbandment of 25 Squadron and its concentration on being the RAF's communications hub.

This newly formed constituency replaces the former Central Fife constituency taking in the Leven, Largo and Kennoway ward and excluding the Buckhaven, Methil and Wemyss Villages ward.

Fife Scottish Omnibuses Ltd, in Scotland, was formed as a bus operating subsidiary of the Scottish Transport Group formed in June 1985 from Walter Alexander & Sons ( Fife ) Ltd and is now part of the Stagecoach Group, trading as Stageoach in Fife.

Of the seven original SBG subsidiaries, Alexanders ( Fife ) was the only company to survive the reorganisation intact ; it lost none of its operating area to any of the new companies formed and nor did it gain.

Along with East Fife, it was formed by dividing the old Fife constituency.

Along with West Fife, it was formed by dividing the old Fife constituency.

On the Fife side, while this line hugs the coast, the circle is formed by a line from Inverkeithing that loops back round to Kirkcaldy by an inland route through the old Fife coalfield.

Clark first stood for election in 1992 for the seat of Fife North East, held by Menzies Campbell, but was unsuccessful.

She was the Member of Parliament ( MP ) for Dunfermline West from 1992 to 2005, and then for Dunfermline and West Fife from 2005 until her death after a long series of illnesses.

1992 – 93: 8th Fife League, 25 pts from 26 games ( 2pts per win )

* The A43 Matriline, which consists of siblings A43 ( Ripple ), born 1981 and A60 ( Fife ), born 1992, A43's daughter A69 ( Midsummer ), born 1996 who gave birth to a calf named A96 in 2009.

He was an Advocate Depute from 1985 to 1988 and was appointed Solicitor General for Scotland in 1989, being promoted to Lord Advocate in 1992, at which time he became a life peer as Baron Rodger of Earlsferry, of Earlsferry in the District of North East Fife, and was appointed to the Privy Council.

David Charles Carnegie, Earl of Southesk ( b. 3 March 1961, Marylebone, London ), styled Earl of Macduff until 16 February 1992, is the only son of the 3rd Duke of Fife, and his former wife, now The Hon.

* Fife & Lothians Cup winners: 1992 – 93

Aberdour (;, ) is a scenic and historic village on the south coast of Fife, Scotland.

Kinglassie ( Gaelic: Cille MoGhlasaidh ) is a small village in central Fife, Scotland.

He is the patron saint of Kinglassie in Fife, and is venerated in Kyntire ( Benedictines, Husenbeth ).

The Mitchell Hall, built 1896, was donated to the community by Alexander Mitchell Farmer at Redwells Farm. Alexander also donated the first Parish Church organ. The Mitchell Hall is used by local community groups, and is an asset to the wider Fife community.

* A public house in Taunton is named after Warbeck, a cafe and shop in Fife

Clackmannanshire ( and from the meaning ' Stone of Manau '), is a local government council area in Scotland, and a lieutenancy area, bordering Perth and Kinross, Stirling and Fife.

* King Creosote, is a nickname of an independent singer-songwriter from Fife, Scotland.

Dunfermline Abbey is a Church of Scotland Parish Church located in Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland.

The Stirling Scottish Parliament ( or Holyrood ) constituency created in 1999 is one of nine within the Mid Scotland and Fife electoral region.

Made by industrial trainees at Babcock Rosyth Defence Ltd ship and submarine dockyard in Fife, the new box is made of yellow pine, with a brass handle and lock, covered in scarlet leather and embossed with the Royal initials and crest and the Chancellor's title.

The area committee of Fife council is called City of Dunfermline Area Committee.

Some of these troops established themselves at Kinghorn in Fife, and after they destroyed the house of William Kirkcaldy of Grange, according to Knox, Mary declared, " Where is now John Knox's God?

My God is now stronger than his, yea, even in Fife.

* Camp Fife is located on the Bear River near Cutler Dam, just outside of Fielding, Utah

The Ukiah vicinity is now home to some of the most prestigious wine labels in the nation, including Brutocao, Fife, Parducci, Frey, and Bonterra.

Fife Lake is a village in Grand Traverse County in the U. S. state of Michigan.

The village is situated within Fife Lake Township near the junction of U. S. Route 131 and M-186 ( which serves as an eastward extension of M-113 ).

Fife Lake Township is a civil township of Grand Traverse County in the U. S. state of Michigan.

* The Village of Fife Lake is within the township at the junction of U. S. Route 131 and M-186.

* Fife Lake is the southwest and the Fife Lake ZIP code, 49633, serves the southwest corner of Boardman Township.

The first European settler in present-day Upper St. Clair was John Fife, who settled near what is now the intersection of Washington and McLaughlin Run roads in 1762.