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Photograph showing early days of Abbey View housing estate looking down the row of shops in Duncan Crescent and the brand new Cooperative buildings. Copies of ‘Old Dunfermline’ DVD’s can be bought online at www.olddunfermline.com/shop. More old images of Dunfermline can also be seen in the Local Studies Dept at St Margaret’s House in St Margaret’s Street.
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I remember the opening of this Coop building. The Dad of a school friend of mine was Manager of the Coop Pharmacy and it was soooo up to date and modern! 🙂
The pharmacy opened in 1958 Mr Jack May was the pharmacist/manager and his wife Win May ran the front shop,They lived in the flat above the shop. I had the pleasure of working with them from 1975 until they retired in 1982.
I lived straight across the road from there , the bloke of flats on the right .
Catagnanis chippie Bert and Tony were characters great chippie though
Yeh . Lots of memories. We used to call it “the store” the chippy is still there x
Leitch’s paper shop up the far end.
When I was a small child, we lived in Gallatelly Road and my mother would go shopping in that co-op.
Blackies the baker, best well fired rolls in town.
How I remember going to the store as well in the 60s The fish shop and lockarts were round the other side
I remember when it was just all fields
It was braw until that fat bastard ran the coop down and called it veeram wtf lol x
In those days all the men spent their wages in the Cresta Bar. Every one was living on beans on toast. I hated it.
it must have been the height of shopping in its day – it put the “store” in Brucefield into the shade. We used to go up when visiting my auntie may and looked huge compared to what we were used to.
Looked like the future but very quickly became the past.
Lovely memories. My uncle was manager in the coop. Always remember the glass in his office on top floor. He could see all what was going on in the store but shoppers couldn’t see in.
I was a leader in the Abbeyview Youth Centre during the 60’s and early 70’s and lived in Clunie Road. Lots of great memories!!!
The doctor surgery was there I remember Dr Robinson and the library. Upstairs in the co op you could look down over a big round opening and see the shop below. Our divvy number was two double six double two.
Omg, this brings back lots of memories.xx
Katerina who is or was your uncle who managed Abbey View Co-op?
I lived in allan cres at the terminus my grandad was abus driver then they called him adam green
As a child I moved to the Islay Road flats when they were first built. This shopping centre seemed, to me, to be very grand at the time very state-of-art.