The first image in this week’s trip down West Fife’s Memory Lane is a photograph taken from a part of Queen Anne Street that doesn't exist anymore, looking towards the Post Office that has since relocated to Dunfermline High Street.

Linda Gatiens recalls the area: “I remember that corner! I used to go to the City Bakers and wait for the Beatty Place bus there to go up to David Street.”

Dave Fleming notes that although the part of Queen Anne Street where the photograph was taken from is now part of the Kingsgate Shopping Centre, very little else has changed: “It’s interesting how little the fabric has changed. The buildings visible are almost all still there - just the old Co-op building in the distance gone."

Dunfermline Press: The Erskine Church.The Erskine Church. (Image: Contributed)

Eileen Carrick remembers some of the shops and buildings: “Opposite the Post Office was a sweetie shop and above it was Millers Dancing Academy. Past that was the Sanitation Department where my aunty Nell worked. That was on the corner of Queen Anne Street and Cross Wynd. Past that is the 'modern' building that housed Woolies. So many memories."

Lorraine Uniacke was born in Dunfermline and has mixed feelings about some of the changes that have taken place over the years to her home town: “Although I no longer live in Dunfermline, it will always be my home where I grew up. Hardly recognise it now when I do go back to visit. The Glen is still very much how I remember it though, apart from a few changes here and there."

Dunfermline Press: Damside Street.Damside Street. (Image: Contributed)

Tom Rintoul also has memories of this location: “That's the Post Office on the corner, and diagonally opposite where the picture is taken was a television shop. When we were at primary school you could watch the children's programme ‘Bill and Ben’ on the television in the shop window. I think that it might have been Scott the electrician but I'm not sure."

Our next photograph shows the Erskine Church that stood (and still stands today) opposite the Post Office. The building is due to go up for auction later this month.

Our next photograph from around 1932 shows the continuation of Bruce Street that was called Damside Street, with Canmore Works on the right. All the buildings have since been demolished and the area is now where Tesco is situated. 

Susan Rozanski remembers Canmore Works: “It was my first job when I left school. I used to cycle up and down twice a day as I went home for lunch!”

Dunfermline Press: A view looking up St Margaret's Street.A view looking up St Margaret's Street. (Image: Contributed)

Our last photograph is a view looking up St Margaret Street. The gap site where the cars are parked was where St Margaret's Hall was once situated. It had opened in 1878 with a capacity of 1400 people and burned down in 1961.

The new Dunfermline Carnegie Library and Galleries building now occupies the site. 

Lynne Paterson likes the photograph: “I really love seeing these old pics as they remind me of my mum and dad when they were alive and how they saw Dunfermline."

More photographs like these can be seen in Dunfermline Carnegie Library and Galleries, as well as at facebook.com/olddunfermline.

With thanks to Frank Connelly