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To enter a new competition for a copy of the new ‘Then and Now’ DVD (available for sale outside ‘New Look’ in the Kingsgate and from www.olddunfermline.com/shop) just ‘like’ this post. The winner will be announced on Wednesday 7th December. This photograph from the DVD shows a view from the Fire Station around 1970 looking out to the Upper Railway Station (now B&Q) and the old Opera House building where the Kingsgate is now. The Carnegie Clinic can also be seen on the left, with the Bath Tavern (now Coady’s bar) on the corner of the junction on the right of the photograph. Many more photographs like this can also be seen in the Local Studies Department in St Margaret’s House, St Margaret’s Street.
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This photo brings back so many memories. Watching the steam engines . The piles of coal and dreaded visits to the eye clinic when I was a wee girl.
My Grandfather was a engine driver in the fifties working out of the upper train Station, Used to have great Christmas parties for us kids back then. Oh the memories. The old clinic not so good memories..
I love seeing the streets my ancestors lived in, and the surrounding areas.
Used to cross this road every day at the time this picture was taken
What have we done to Dunfermline?! Wasted the heritage beyond, lost good businesses right, left and centre and it looks like ‘gap site central’! Short sighted beyond…
I think that’s the back of St. Margaret’s Church on the left hand side. My old school in front of it. Out of sight.
This makes the dunfermline now look rubbish in comparison thats just my opinion of course
Of all the photos I’ve seen of old dunfermline this is the most informative, and a little shocking! I knew there was a train station in town but I never really understood where it was. Why on earth was this demolished? Much better location than the two we have now! I’ll never be able to look at the B&Q car park the same way again! No kingsgate/bus station. No Carnegie drive. How did you get to appin cres in these days!! Inglis St used to be a bridge??!! The pilmuir junction now a total disaster of a junction.
Am I right in thinking that Wullie Mitchell had his juice factory there?
They must have been clearing the area near the railway station for the police station because I was stationed there in 1974
used to play around there when i was a kid down at the bridge at the bottom of townhill road through the gate in the sleeper fence the had to go into the railway thats all gone now too
Remember all of this and Dunfermline was a busy vibrant town. No derelict buildings and a lovely town centre with a transport service for everyone and everyone used it.
Time moves on and change in Dunfermline has not all been progress.
God the old town has changed so much over the years . So many memories growing up in Dunfermline . Love looking at the old pictures of the town
I lived in Pilmuir street as a child and when travelling by train back from Edinburgh we were always relieved when the train was scheduled to stop at the “upper” station as not all of them did. Saved a big hike back up the New Row !!
I remember the fish shop on the corner of the grass area McBays there was a cafe across from Mc Kissock next to Opera House. On a Saturday night as the Opera House was coming out you couldn’t move on that street of course it was not a dual carriageway then fab times then at the shows with my mum.
There was also DC Motors motorcycle shop, approximately opposite the Opera House. A sad view indeed.
Just noticed the make-up of the cars: all British with only foreign make (Italian). Sad indeed.
It’s so sad to see what they have done to Dunfermline!!!
Used to play in the old cattle market after it closed which is the waste ground just to the right oif the station
The bath tavern the white building to the roght.
Opera House,St Margaret’s Infant School and the Wholesale Company..
Lived in Campbell Street when I was first married, station was still there
the building with the four rooftop windows was James Alston Ltd, wholesale grocers,,,,my first job