AN ARTIST who grew up in Dunfermline is searching for West Fifers that may be able to share some history about his grandfather, who owned a bakery in the auld toun.

Alan Watters found an old sketch of his grandad, John, recently that he drew when he was 15 from a photograph, but he only has vague memories of him as he died when he was a baby.

John Watters had a baker's shop at the corner of Couston Street and Appin Crescent and stayed there until about 1950.

Alan, who now lives in Devizes, Wiltshire, said: "Yes, the drawing must be about 55-years-old and I found it just recently after going through the attic during lockdown.

"I know my father also trained in the bakery and did an apprenticeship in his early years before going off to do something else but I don't really have any more information than that.

"My brother, who is a couple of years older, remembers a bit more and he knows the bakery didn’t have a shop front as such.

"I think you had to go up the close at the side to get to it at the back so he delivered to local people and businesses with a cart selling his pies and baked goods!

"Does anyone recognise him or know anything about the shop?"

Alan thinks that John was born around the 1870/80s and died around 1950.

If you have any information that can help, you can contact him at watters.alan@gmail.com.