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Photograph of the junction of the High Street and the New Row taken in 1955. It shows the variety of shops on either side of the New Row that once included the likes of Goldbergs, The Hobby and Model shop, the specialist wine shop of D. I Hunter, the Co-op and the radio workshops of James Scott and co.
Copies of ‘Old Dunfermline’ DVD’s can be bought online at www.olddunfermline.com/shop. More old images can also be seen in the Local Studies Dept at St Margaret’s House in St Margaret’s Street.
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I loved the hobby and model shop. Bought all my fishing gear and all my modelling kits.
My stepdads workshops just down through that close ..back in the 70’s tho
Remember trying to hold a car on the clutch at this junction on my driving test!
I took my Portable record player to Scotts workshop for repair I would have been 13yrs old traveled by bus from Crossgates it was the late 50’s remembered they were very friendly and helpful and did a good repair, happy days.
Goldbergs was never there!
Stuck behind a broken down bus on my driving test in 1979 for about 15 minutes certainly took care of the hill start
The 1st David Gray Salons shop in Dunfermline is on the right hand side opposite the 1 today
When that counts as “old” Dunfermline, I realise just how old I am 🙂 🙂
I thought it was Abbey Road …
When I lived in wood mill I had a friend called Ronnie Macintosh we worked at a tyre place called driveonair around 1964 any one knows him ?
Many years after the hobby shop closed I was asked to do a job there. There were a few models still there and owner said take anything you want as they are all broken or missing parts, I got an old Tamiya model. I carried it about for me for years always thinking that one day I would build it and find the missing parts. By the time I did get round to building it I couldn’t see the heads of the screws, they were so small, so I decided to sell it. Went on the internet and sold it for a tidy profit as it turned out to be a vintage collectors model but it still makes me keep a memory of the model shop and all the things I bought there including my fishing tackle, which I still have.
Goldbergs was on Guildhall street.
Sorry but it was not 1955 this picture was taken as David Grays shop is in the picture. That used to be The New Row Library that closed in1963. My late wife worked there till it closed.
I mind of goldbergs being in the toon
Got several Scalextric cars from the Hobby shop when our kids were younger, in the years shortly before it closed. Always sad to see a hobby shop go, but I think the owner was retiring and his daughter didn’t want to take it on.
I worked part time after school in DI Hunters.Great grocers shop.
Who remembers the police or traffic warden in a white coat directing the traffic back in the 80s? Changed days lol
Got the DVD, but I remember too many of the OLD scenes!!! Lol
My dads office was at 8 New Row – you went upstairs beside the Hobby Model Shop – was a large red door x
i remember getting balsa wood plane kits from the hobby model shop
Those were the good old days, a busy town with great shops.
I remember ‘Goldbergs’ being where Lourenzos is!!!
It was a great place to visit in the 50s, proper ice cream, a walk through the Glen and a ride home on a bouncy old bus round Loch Leven on a summer’s evening! Aaahh
The Hobby and Model shop! I remember, lol.