This photograph shows Dunfermline High School pupils marching along Holyrood Place in the 1953 Gala Parade accompanied by their teacher Alex McLennan. An annual fixture in many school children’s memories of growing up in Dunfermline. The Parade used to take…
Dunfermline High School pupils
Grange Road
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…
Laidlaw’s Garage
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…
Lipton’s supermarket
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…
Dunfermline mark VE Day
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.…
Gala Day in 1951
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…
Public Park
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…
Sinclair Gardens roundabout
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…
Chalmers Street
Photograph of Chalmers Street in 1962 looking down towards the gates of the Glen. The Chalmers Street Church on the left would be demolished soon afterwards to make way for what is now the entrance to the car park opposite…
Dunfermline and West Fife Hospital
Two photographs of Dunfermline and West Fife Hospital in the New Row and Reid Street that served as the main emergency and surgical hospital for over 100 years until it became redundant when the new Queen Margaret Hospital was built.…