The first two photographs in this week’s trip down Memory Lane are of buildings in the Jigburn area of Dunfermline shortly before they were demolished.

The Dunfermline Press of August 1962 described the street: “Jigburn Terrace, a group of 50 working-class houses, was built close on 50 years ago and is falling into decay.

"Not half a dozen houses remain still occupied. The others are empty, with peeling wallpaper, doors swinging open and windows broken, the targets of stone-throwing boys and youths.

"Jigburn is a private street owned by Mrs Jenny Dowds who lives at ‘Jigburn House’, Baldridgeburn, close by the entrance to the Jigburn area.

"Two large tenement blocks, linked by two two-storey blocks, which form Jigburn Terrace (built in 1903) were built by her father, the late Mr John Rintoul.

"Jigburn Terrace was built on the site of an old garden which Mr Rintoul feued from the late Dr Drysdale.

"The early occupants of the houses were mostly miners, whose daughters worked in the local mills."

Four years later in January 1966 the Press reported on the progress of efforts to clean up the area: "The Provost said they now appeared to have the upper hand so far as the demolition and tidying up of old properties and derelict sites within the burgh was concerned.

"'The past few months have seen the demolition of more properties than in any other year, principally in the Jigburn, Baldridgeburn and Moodie Street area.

"I do appreciate that there are still eyesores in other parts of the town and those properties will be dealt with in due course. This year must be unique in as much that more houses have been pulled down than have been built in 1965.'"

The Dunfermline Journal in February 1875 painted a very bleak picture of housing conditions in that area, 100 years previously: “Baldridge Row is within 20 minutes walk of Dunfermline Cross but nobody cares to confess it belongs to Dunfermline.

"It is indeed a most unsavoury place. The interior of some of the houses is enough to make the boldest hold their breath.

"In the first place we are introduced to an old woman of fourscore living in a single apartment which has a low damp-stained ceiling, badly lighted and altogether miserable.

"In her young days she worked in the pits and is now permitted to sit rent free.

"Outside the houses there are no conveniences of any kind."

Our next photograph shows work taking place outside McLean School which was opened on September 30, 1896 by Andrew Carnegie.

The final image is a painting of the Baldridgeburn area by the prolific Dunfermline artist Adam Westwood, who lived from 1844 to 1924.

The number of works that Westwood produced in his lifetime left an invaluable record of what Dunfermline looked like in the late 19th and early 20th century.

Many of the areas of the town that Westwood depicted have changed irrevocably and it is thanks to his work that we are still able to see images of streets and buildings that in many instances no longer exist.

More photographs like these can be seen in Dunfermline Carnegie Library & Galleries and also at facebook.com/olddunfermline