Old Dunfermline

[ad_1] Photograph of Garvock Hill from around 1965. Covered by woods at one stage, many of the trees were cut down and used in the rebuilding of Dunfermline after the Great Fire of 1624 destroyed a great proportion of the…

[ad_1] Photograph from 1973 of the last night of the fairground that took place annually in the Rex Park on ground that later became the rear car park for Asda St Leonards. The attractions can be seen being dismantled in…

[ad_1] Photograph of Linburn Road and Trondheim Parkway taken around 1964. The open farmland on the left is now built over with the many houses on the Eastern Expansion and Duloch housing estates. The bus about to make its regular…

[ad_1] Photograph of Izatt Avenue housing estate, to the south of Dunfermline High School, which was built just after World War 2. The terraced houses with their own front and back gardens proved very popular. Dunfermline’s Maternity Hospital was built…

[ad_1] This photograph shows Woodmill Road being widened around 1964 as the entrance to Transy Estate on the left would become the main entrance for the new St Margaret’s and Commercial Primary Schools being built there. Ferguson’s Nursery (for flowers…

[ad_1] Photograph of the southern approach to Dunfermline from Rosyth over Hospital Hill, with the view of Dunfermline Abbey and Palace opening up in the distance. The Brucefield Cafe can be seen on the right of the picture, popular with…

[ad_1] Here is a photograph of the area around Bute Crescent/Clunie Road in Abbeyview around 1960. The northern part of Abbeyview had the streets named after Scottish Islands and in the southern part after Scottish rivers and hills. The Co-operative…

[ad_1] Photograph of Bothwell Street taken around 1970. This tenement block housed more than 36 families and was demolished to allow the street to be widened. The Bank of Scotland at the bottom of the New Row, heading towards where…

[ad_1] A photograph of the beach at Aberdour with two ‘Punch and Judy’ shows providing entertainment on the beach from a time when Aberdour would have been a popular destination for holidaymakers, and also a place where many people young…

[ad_1] This photograph shows the junction of the High Street, Guildhall Street and Cross Wynd. The Woolworth store just past the junction on the right seems to be the main attraction on this wet day in the early 1950’s. The…