THE photographs in this week's trip down West Fife's Memory Lane were provided by Press reader Hendry Bosshardt, whose Swiss father, Walter Bosshardt, was managing director of Winterthur Silk Mills in Dunfermline which opened in 1932.
Pictured is the Glen Bridge being built in the early 1930s as viewed from Chalmers Street looking east, with senior staff from Winterthur visiting from Switzerland and viewing progress of a construction that would improve transport connections into and out of their newly-built factory.
We can see workers waiting to board a fleet of buses for one of their annual outings which Henry remembers his father telling him included destinations such as the 'Heads of Ayr', Pitlochry, Loch Lomond, and the Trossachs.
Another photograph, from around 1940, shows where Winterthur operated from in the former Canmore Works on the north side of the Glen Bridge in the upper part of Bruce Street where Tesco is situated now.
And an image, from the 1940s, shows a horse-drawn cart operating out of the factory.
More photographs like these can be seen in Dunfermline Carnegie Library and Galleries, where 'Old Dunfermline' DVDs are on sale in the shop, and also at facebook.com/olddunfermline.
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