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Frank Howie
Ceres, Nr Cupar, Fife,
Scotland |
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Thank you
to Frank Howie, Morningside, Edinburgh, who wrote telling me about his
grandfather, also named Frank Howie.
Was he,
perhaps, related to the Edinburgh
photographers named Howie? |
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Frank wrote:
Grandfather
"My
grandfather, Frank Howie, was born in East Fife, I think in Ceres.
He motor-cycled away from Ceres, to build a number of small businesses:
- a photographic business
- small cinema business
-a painting and decorating
business.
He was an early entrepreneur and also an
inventor. He took out some minor patents, eg 'elastic trouser braces'.
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Photographic Business
"Frank's photographic business was in the
village of Newmills in West Fife,
some 5 miles west of Dunfermline, near the coalfields of High and Low
Valleyfield.
Unfortunately, few of his old
plates have survived, and his old full-plate camera, which I looked after
until recently, was damaged beyond repair in a house-move."
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Newmills Kinema
"In the early years of the film
industry, probably in the 1930s, Frank established 'Newmills Kinema', a
purpose-built cinema, in Newmills, Fife.
My father ran and managed Newmills Kinema
until around the mid-1970s when he died. My mother was the 'Ticket
Lady'." |
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Frank Howie, Morningside, Edinburgh:
December 29, 2004 and January 21, 2009 |
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