A Fife teacher who has taken hundreds of pupils to visit First World War battlefields has been given an unusual honour.
The owners of the hotel at which Harry Gould and the youngsters stayed have named their new extension after him.
The 62-year-old former history teacher was invited to an opening ceremony at the Munchenhoff Hotel near Ypres, where owner Hubert D’Hoine named the 22-room annexe Block Gould.
Mr Gould, who recently retired after 36 years at Bell Baxter High in Cupar, had been visiting the hotel with pupils for more than 30 years and had become friends with the owners.
However, he said to have part of the building named in his honour was a huge surprise.
”I started going to that particular hotel way back in 1979 with the first Bell Baxter history trip,” he said. ”Thirty years later they were building the extension and they named one part after Hubert’s mother and the other part after me.”
Mr Gould attended the opening with his brother, Brian, and former colleague, Timmy Miller.
”We’ve probably taken not far off 1,000 kids there over the years, and as the years went on there was more and more to interest them,” he said.
As well as naming the block after the teacher, who lives in Markinch, all the electronic room keys and direction signs in the corridors bear pictures of his face.
”The pictures of me pointing to the rooms are all right but there’s one pointing to the bar with my photo on it!” he laughed.