David Ritchie Watt, St Andrews Holiday

Category

Library Item

Item no

27785

Title

David Ritchie Watt, St Andrews Holiday

Description

The Watt family, save for a Holiday trip around the continent in 1938 (just before the outbreak of WWII), took most of their holidays in Scotland, often in seaside locations like St. Andrews and Leven.

Artist / maker

Unknown

Date

1930

Type

Photograph

St Andrews is a town on the east coast of Fife in Scotland, 10 miles (16 km) southeast of Dundee and 30 miles (50 km) northeast of Edinburgh.

The town is home to the University of St Andrews, the third oldest university in the English-speaking world and the oldest in Scotland.The University is an integral part of the burgh and during term time students make up approximately one third of the town's population.

St Andrews is also known worldwide as the "home of golf". This is in part because of The Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews, founded in 1754, which until 2004 exercised legislative authority over the game worldwide (except in the United States and Mexico). It is also because the famous Old Course of St Andrews Links (acquired by the town in 1894) is the most frequent venue for The Open Championship, the oldest of golf's four major championships. Visitors travel to St Andrews in great numbers for several courses ranked amongst the finest in the world, as well as for the sandy beaches.

Image from the David Ritchie Watt Family Album.

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