Pittenweem Library news

Our shelves (and storage areas) are full!

A huge thank you to all the generous people who have donated books and DVDs over the past few months. Some of these donations are added to our stock and the rest are sold to raise funds for the library. Our storage space is full at the moment so we are pausing donations until the new year, and will let…

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Pittenweem Post – Issue 36 – 12 December 2025

Welcome to the December issue of the post, the monthly newsletter produced by Pittenweem Community Library. You can download it here or pick up a copy from the library, Barnetts bakery or One Market Place. Many thanks to the businesses and homes in Pittenweem for their beautifully decorated windows, bringing Christmas cheer to our streets. Featured windows are The Coach…

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A new poetry group – East Poetry

A new venture in Pittenweem – the library is hosting a poetry group, East Poetry, on Wednesday evenings 6.30 – 8.00 starting 5 November. This is an independent group using the library as a venue. If you are interested in coming along please email haikueast@proton.me.

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Pittenweem Post – Issue 35 – 14 November 2025

Welcome to the November issue of the post, the monthly newsletter produced by Pittenweem Community Library. You can download it here or pick up a copy from the library, Barnetts bakery or One Market Place. November's issue includes: Three new interpretive panels telling the story of Pittenweem Priory have been installed by the East Neuk of Fife Preservation Society Pittenweem's…

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Book Week Scotland and Scotland the Bread

This year’s Book Week Scotland theme is Friendship and the library will have some free booklets from Scottish Book Trust. In support of this, Andrew Whitley and Marie Louise Cochrane of Scotland the Bread have risen to the challenge and are putting on an event on 20 November at Coastline Church about the companionship of bread and books. Entry is…

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Pittenweem Post – Issue 34 – 10 October 2025

Welcome to the October issue of the post, the monthly newsletter produced by Pittenweem Community Library. You can download it here or pick up a copy from the library, Barnetts bakery or One Market Place. October's issue includes: Sir Walter Watson Hughes: Empire, copper and an untold family legacy (second in the blue plaque series) Life in 1948 Remembering Walter…

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Get creative at our spooky craft workshop!

Join us for some frightful fun at our Halloween Craft Workshop on Wednesday 22 October at 10.30am. This is a free session for kids who are in classes P1 to P7. If you are under 7, please bring an adult with you and tell them not to be too scared. If you're 7 or over your adults can drop you…

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Reminiscence Café is back

As autumn and winter draw in, the Reminiscence Café is back in the library on the first Monday of the month - see details in the poster (click the picture or title here - or pop along to the library to get details). You'll get a very warm welcome and a hot cuppa to go with the company and the…

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Autumn 2025 – a new series of talks!

We are once again delighted to introduce our new season of talks for Autumn 2025. We are really lucky to have another fantastic line up of speakers who have kindly agreed to support our Community Library in this way. There is something for everyone here, including an important local history anniversary, a look at the history of gold in medicine,…

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Pittenweem Post – Issue 33 – 12 September 2025

Welcome to the September issue of the post, the monthly newsletter produced by Pittenweem Community Library. You can download it here or pick up a copy from the library, Barnetts bakery or One Market Place. September's issue includes Fife Doors Open days, the Fife Seaweed Fest, Pittenweem’s Blue Plaques, business focus: The Woolly Brew, harvest time at Coal Farm and…

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