h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Hello

I'm just dropping by to let you know I'll be subediting your article on Charlestown, Fife. I haven't started yet, but you can keep an eye on progress at A805295 - so let me know if there are any changes you want made

Dsatardly

Thanks. I have just tidied up a couple of points, so be sure to take the latest version. There are links to be made within h2g2 to Saltaire, Bradford and Titus Salt and outside h2g2 to The Scottish Lime Trust. Unfortunately I have forgotten how to do them in code, and my little brain is not really up to sorting them out for you. Good Luck!

You're a bit wide of the beam about ship breaking in Charlestown. That was in Inverkeithing, two or three miles to the East of Charlestown. I was actually aboard the Mauritania a couple of times whilst she was moored at the breaker's yard in Inverkeithing.

Of course I am open to correction and memory is not what it was, but I think the information about the Mauritania came from the guidebook (or leaflet) available from the village shop. I may also be that there was a picture. I will find it one day. However, you have the personal experience, and I bow to that. With the proviso that it is possible, I suppose, that we are both right and that the hulk was moved from one place to the other. The really strange thing is that I have visited Inverkeithing several time, have distant relatives there and may even have spent a week or two there in childhood but cannot recall any sort of dock or port there. Rosyth, of course. Limekilns and Charlestown, yes. I didn't even realise Inverkeithing was on the coast! Now I look at the map, of course I see the error of my neuron pathways.