THE photographs in this week’s trip down West Fife’s Memory Lane feature a street that has disappeared, South Inglis Street. It began at the top of Bonnar Street at the junction with Queen Anne Street, and ran north up to what is now Carnegie Drive before the area was swallowed up by the construction of the Kingsgate Shopping Centre.

Our first photograph shows one of the entrances to Goodalls garage in the middle of Inglis Street. The Carnegie Clinic building that is currently being renovated into residential accommodation can be seen in the distance.

Possibly named after a Bailie James Inglis, who was regarded as one of the wittiest and most congenial man of his generation, the Annals of Dunfermline record the origins of the street: "Inglis Street was laid out in the year 1820 and the first house was built in the summer of 1821."

Our next image shows some of the shops just south of Goodalls, including Thomsons the grocers.

Our next photograph shows Elders Mill that dominated the northern end of the street near what was Dunfermline Upper Station. This company originated in 1834 as a firm of grain merchants and started milling oatmeal in 1905. During the Second World War, the oatmeal plant operated day and night producing 5,000 tons of oatmeal, some of which supplied the Allied Forces – it was also a supplier of the nationally-known Scotts Porage Oats.

One of the best-known of the many fish and chips shops that once proliferated in Dunfermline was Catignanis in Inglis Street. Norma Alari, in her book, ‘Italians of West Fife’, documents other Italian families who operated premises in Inglis Street such as Raffaello Giuliani in 1892 at 8/10 Inglis Street.

Norma also recounts a tragic accident that took place on August 11, 1918, involving Giovanni Zaccarini, a restaurant keeper’s assistant staying at 7 Inglis Street: "Giovanni Zaccarini, son of a fish restaurateur in Inglis Street, died from a gunshot wound. About a fortnight ago, a chum of the lad was playing with a revolver which accidentally went off, puncturing his left lung. Giovanni was taken to the local hospital where he died on August 12."

Our final photograph shows the street as viewed from Carnegie Drive which was in the process of being constructed at the time this picture was taken.

Neil Saunders remembers some of the shops that were in this area: “Alexander Thomson Plumbers were next to Minerva Radiators just past the entrance area and parking for the Belleville.”

Gordon Fraser remembers Minerva: “I started my first job at the age of 15 in the last shop on the right-hand side which was called Minerva. It was a car spares outlet with radiators a speciality – that was in 1970.”

More photographs like these can be seen in Dunfermline Carnegie Library and Galleries. A series of ‘Old Dunfermline’ DVDs are available in the shop there, as well as at olddunfermline.com/shop

With thanks to Frank Connelly