Places

[ad_1] A fascinating image taken at the corner of Douglas Street and the High Street that attracted a lot of attention when a lorry shed the load it was carrying. The Linen Bank building has recently been converted into a…

[ad_1] Photograph of the junction of Aberdour Road and Queensferry Road. All the buildings are the same as they were fifty years ago when this was taken in 1965. The Cottage Inn pub building can be seen on the left…

[ad_1] This photograph shows the area that is now the big Sinclair Gardens roundabout at the top of the Public Park which is a lot busier now than it was when this picture was taken. Known locally as Park Gates,…

[ad_1] This photograph shows St Margaret’s Hall which was Dunfermline’s primary multi-purpose venue until it was destroyed by fire in 1961 after an evening of boxing. A fire engine can be seen to the left of the photograph and the…

[ad_1] Photograph of Ironmongers ‘Watt and Dewar’ from 1963 of their premises in East Port before they moved to the New Row (opposite the Alhambra). It was situated where the Bank of Scotland building is now, next to the East…

[ad_1] This part of Pilmuir Street was originally called Bath Street because the baths which Andrew Carnegie had gifted to Dunfermline were there on the corner where Sinky’s pub is now. The majority of buildings in this photograph taken around…

[ad_1] This photograph is of the ‘supermarket that never was’. It was built on the site of the former St Andrews Parish Church and various other former co-operative properties in 1988 near where the bus station now is, but never…

[ad_1] Pilmuir Hall was Dunfermline’s first swimming baths gifted by Andrew Carnegie, and later became a public hall when the new Carnegie Baths were built further up Pilmuir Street. The building was later used by the DHSS before being demolished…