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This photograph shows the bus stop opposite the site of the Kinema picture house and outside Johnsons nightclub, previously the Belleville Hotel. The area is now the entrance to the service deck of the Kingsgate Centre.
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Used to get the bus to Whitelaw Rd at that stop MANY MOONS AGO
Got the last bus home from there after the Belleville and the Green Tree
At one time it was a very busy stop. I have old timetables showing a bus every 5 minutes all afternoon to Abbeyview via Cottage Inn and Whitelaw Road, one every 10 min to Woodmill Road via Wedderburn Street (before that was joined on to the Townhill service and even Izatt Avenue had one every 15 mins in the afternoon. Occasionally a service also ran to Halbeath (having started in Wellwood). Country buses drove past the stop in the years when such things were just matters of common knowledge and didn’t need registered at the Traffic Commissioners like now.
Many happy memories of nights out in the Belleville, the disco at the back which doubled as a cafe during the day
Bellville hotel! A blast from the past!
I remember Johnsons had women on the doors
When I was in the police in Dunfermline we used to go to the Belleville to collect prisoners food
I used to go to brownies in the st Andres erskine church & get the bus back to abbeyview from there to the terminus at Trondheim parkway, used to cost me 1p for my bus fare
Remember it well l used to work in the Belleville as a kitchen maid served the police with the prisoners meals
I see that by this time, buses were single deck. Prior to that, Dunfermline seemed full of double Deck buses.
had many a good night in the Belleville and used that bus stop to get us back to Trondheim xx
The lane at the side of the Belleville (Youth Centre in “my” day) used to lead to Canmore Primary School. The building partly obscured by the bus was a school clinic and domestic science class rooms for Queen Anne School. The upper part was one of the halls of Erskine Church. Brings back many memories! 🙂
That is not a very old photos when I got the bus there, there was no shelter to keep you dry.
Bus ran from Beatty place right to the end of Trondheim , brings back memories , coming back from the baths on a Saturday morning
That would be at the time I worked as a bus driver..The bus was a Leyland National..I used one on the 74 route..town centre to Abbey View loop..
One day my regular bus broke down & I was given an older bus..which had a bus blind with places other than the regular places on it..the regulars knew me as “their” driver,paid there fare & off we went..
I put Blackpool up on the front & did four runs before an inspector got on & gave me row!!..
Whatever happened to the Leyland National? Such a well used bus in its day.
The lane up the side of the Belleville led to St Margarets Primary school which was where I started school in 1968. There were I think P1-4 and P5-7 were somewhere nearer St Margarets church I think
It seems like several parts of my life pivoted around that bus stop. I went to The school down the close, went to Kinema picture house, played in the Belleville, went the ballroom and usually caught a Whitelaw Rd bus home from there, or sprinted down to the New Row to catch the Woodmill bus.
I often met my dad there on his way home from Comrie pit.
A familiar spot indeed. My back probably leaned against that wall more than any other.
It was either the bus or a walk through the Public Park for me to get home to Whitelaw Crescent
The registration number on the bus is almost the same as my first motorbike. YSX676W. Dunfermline is so different from when I grew up there.
Spent so many happy happy times at the Kinema Ballroom, opposite the Kinema cinema, oh how super to getb these old photos, got a lump in my throat now!
Just ‘up the close’ between Johnsons & the building behind the bus was the girl’s entrance to my Primary School – Canmore. The boys entrance was round the corner in Reform Street.
Spent many wonderful times at the ballroom in the fifties