Old Dunfermline

Early photograph of Chalmers Street. The church on the right hand side was later demolished to make way for the entrance to the Glen Car Park.

Photographs of Stephens entry in the Civic Week Parade in 1953 turning down the New Row, and of the old Co-op buildings in the town’s Randolph Street.  

Here are two images of the Abbey View area of Dunfermline, Bute Crescent, and the newly built Co-operative building in the center of the scheme. They were taken by one of Dunfermline’s best known photographers, Morris Allan.  

Classic photograph of Pittencrieff Park, film footage of which is featured in newly released ‘Old Dunfermline’ film.

It shows Bruce Street at its junction with the High Street which used to have two-way traffic negotiating its narrow street. Burton’s shop and the ‘New Victoria’ restaurant can be seen on the right as a Co-operative fruit and vegetable…

This photograph taken in the 1970’s show the area at the bottom of the New Row before the construction of the dual carriageway through the Public Park. This was a busy and dangerous junction at Bothwell Street, New Row and…

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 1971…