Woodside Hotel, Aberdour

When my department was closed in my previous job, another company in the same line of work hired everyone who was being laid off. We started work for the new company three years ago today, and today we celebrated this anniversary with lunch out.

We went to the Woodside Hotel in Aberdour (http://www.thewoodsidehotel.co.uk/), where we had a very pleasant and reasonably-priced bar lunch. But what fascinated me was the ceiling of the room in which we were eating.

The SS Orontes was a passenger ship of the Orient line, built in 1901. Her maiden voyage was in 1902 from London to Melbourne and Sydney. She was scrapped in 1926 in Inverkeithing in 1926, but not before the hotellier obtained the dining room and set it up inside the hotel.

Today, the ceiling from the ship still stands - it looks great and is a remarkable feature of an otherwise unassuming hotel in Aberdour. What a great find!