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Vikki Armstrong

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Additional info: According to the site Forgottongreens.com: “It is not known when golf was first played on the Fisherrow Links, but the first recorded mention was in 1812.”

“On Tuesday the 14th inst, a young lad, playing golf on Fisherrow Links, happened to miss the ball, and the club swinging round, hit a fine boy on the head, causing his instant death..” (Caledonian Mercury 23.1.1812)

The Links were used mostly by local people for a variety of activities and sports, including golf, football and cricket, also the fishermen had ancient right for drying their nets there. The links were very much a local amenity. They came into prominence when plans to extend the Musselburgh Links to 18 holes included a take-over of part of the links.

“Fisherrow people generally are very strongly opposed to the suggested inclusion of their links, and that for several reasons. Principally these are:- That shopkeepers and others who are in the habit of exercising themselves with a round of the five-hole course at their own doors in the forenoon would be deprived of that privilege.”

(Edinburgh Evening News 28.4.1893)

Thank you to Vikki Armstrong for providing a photo and this additional reference.

Local Authority: East Lothan

Common Good Fund: Musselburgh Common Good

Value: £75106

Moveable? Non-moveable

Asset ID: 69

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Local Authority ID: 1502

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Last Update: 2021

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