Old Dunfermline

Photograph of the Auld Toll Tavern (formerly known as Jennie Rennie’s Pub). Although it still stands today, the Burmah Garage and Margot’s hairdressing salon which stood opposite on the corner of Tollage and Hospital Hill in this photo from 1971…

This photograph shows the annual West Fife Agricultural Show. It used various locations and this one in 1958 took place at Broomhead Park in Dunfermline where the Broomhead Flats now are.

Photograph from 1986 of the approach to Dunfermline on Grange Road and the south end of Elgin Street. Now the site of an industrial estate, the housing on the left housed many of the workers from the adjacent ‘Stewart’s Rubber…

Photograph of Laidlaw’s Garage in the town’s Hospital Hill area being demolished in 1971 as it was moving to new premises in Halbeath Road. A petrol station was built on the site that closed in 2001, and it now hosts…

Photograph of Lipton’s supermarket around 1966 built on the site of the old Royal Hotel. The building on the right had its foundation stone laid in 1807 and was used as a guildhall (town hall) and linen exchange. The eye-catching…

This photograph is from seventy years ago when Dunfermline marked the end of the war in Europe. It shows people making their way up the High Street towards the Public Park on 9th May which had been made a holiday.…

The first photograph shows one of Dunfermline’s best known Italian family’s ice cream cart, Maloco’s, at the Gala Day in 1951 when all the ice cream shops in Dunfermline were allocated a booth in Pittencrieff Park. The team preparing for…

This picture taken in 1958 shows the Public Park. On the right hand side is the Upper Railway Station where B&Q is now, and the public tennis courts can be seen in front of the Carnegie Hall which is now…

Taken in 1950 looking towards the town centre from the Public Park and is now the site of the extremely busy Sinclair Gardens roundabout. On the left, past the Carnegie Hall, is Viewfield Baptist Church, the spire of which was…