Old Dunfermline

[ad_1] This photograph shows Dunfermline Lower Station around 1950 when it had three platforms, long enough to accommodate the long Aberdeen to London trains. There were machines that sold chocolate and chewing gum, and another that embossed aluminium strips to…

[ad_1] This photograph shows some schoolchildren around 1965 crossing a street at the bottom of Townhill Road that no longer exists, Market Street, with Pat Grimes sweet shop on the corner. These buildings were later demolished to make way for…

[ad_1] This photograph from 1964 shows the west end of Priory Lane towards the Carnegie Birthplace Museum being widened, and old cottages on the north side of the road being demolished. [ad_2] Source

[ad_1] This photograph shows the junction at the bottom of the New Row and Woodmill Street under the railway viaduct, and some of the buildings that stood there before the roundabout was expanded to cope with heavier traffic using it…

[ad_1] This photograph taken around 1971 shows Crosswynd still open to traffic.The gent’s outfitters Nicol’s occupied the prominent site on the right-hand corner where Cross Wynd meets the High Street, and the North of Scotland Bank was opposite (now occupied…

[ad_1] This photograph from 1964 is of Moodie Street looking towards the iconic view of Dunfermline Abbey, and is the street where Andrew Carnegie was born in 1835. Many of the old weavers cottages were demolished when this road was…

[ad_1] This photograph looks towards East Port on the left and James Street on the right, which now leads up to the top entrance of the Kingsgate Centre. The tenements have long gone and there is now a green open…

[ad_1] This photograph shows some of the shops in what was Queen Anne Street being demolished in 1983 to make way for the Kingsgate Centre. The Union Inn which had stood on the corner has already gone and a start…

[ad_1] The following three minute silent clip shows Pittencrieff Park in Dunfermline during the heatwave of 1976. https://movingimage.nls.uk/film/7554?search_term=Dunfermline&search_join_type=AND&search_fuzzy=yes Great archive footage showing the paddling pool, Divito’s ice cream van, the playpark and gardens of the Glen. Full record for ‘HEATWAVE’…

[ad_1] When Pittencrieff Park had a wide range of animals for visitors to see including monkeys, fish, rabbits and reptiles, one of the the favourite residents in the Aviary was Billy the white cockatoo. Seen here photographed in 1964, children…