THE first image in this week's trip down West Fife's Memory Lane, kindly provided by Press reader Ian Ross, is the view looking up Randolph Street from its junction with the High Street showing the Co-operative shops that once dominated both sides of that street.

The street no longer exists and is now the green space that connects the bus station to the town's High Street. It was originally a footpath that was later widened and named South Chapel Street in 1809. It was later given the name Randolph Street in 1878 in memory of Sir Thomas Randolph, nephew of King Robert the Bruce and one of his most faithful lieutenants who played a major role in the Battle of Bannockburn and whose body was later laid to rest in Dunfermline Abbey.

The range of shops in the street included groceries, clothing, furniture, a chemist, pet shop and jewellers and was one of the most popular and well-frequented areas of the old centre of Dunfermline. The overhead walkway connecting the shops on either side of the street can be seen in the forefront of the image.

The second photograph is a view looking down Randolph Street from its junction with Queen Anne Street. People have fond memories of shopping in this area, articulated here by Lynn Masson: "I'd love, just one more time, to walk down Randolph Street with my mum, holding her hand, going for my first school uniform. I loved going in and watching the money being placed in tubes and flying off to the other part of the building and the change coming flying back. Mum's dividend number was 14005. Going into the massive big chemist and then to the tobacco shop for cigarettes – happy days."

The next photograph shows the ladies of the Check Office in 1954 whose job it was to record meticulously the figures from every sales check issued by every branch and department of the society. Most customers did not retain the check receipts that they were given but some did and were prepared to challenge the staff if the figures did not tally. The dividend payment was quickly spent in the Co-operative stores and further dividend would be accrued on these purchases. Everyone remembered their mother's Co-operative membership number that they had to recite every time 'they went for the messages', even though it's perhaps more than 70 years since they last said it.

The final photograph is of the wines and spirits department of the Co-operative Society which was located in the former premises of the boot and shoe repairers in West Queen Anne Street, Rotten Row: naming it 'The Cobbler' was an understandable choice. It remained there with Ray Thomson the manager until it was moved to the Randolph supermarket to allow the building to be demolished and redeveloped.

More photographs like these can be seen in Dunfermline Carnegie Library and Galleries when it re-opens to the public, and also at facebook.com/olddunfermline. 'Old Dunfermline' DVDs are available online from olddunfermline.com/shop