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Late autumn in the Beveridge Park

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The spire of Abbotshall Parish Church, Kirkcaldy, catches the last rays of the setting sun in the late afternoon of 14th November, 2024.

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How desperate would you have to be?

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There's a huge Amazon distribution warehouse on the outskirts of Dunfermline, and by the looks of this poster which I saw on a bus stop in Bothwell Street, they're having some recruitment issues. No doubt £1,000 would be enough to get a few folk out of a serious hole, but would it be enough to tempt them to work for an organisation with such a poxy reputation?

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After the storm...

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A view over the Firth of Forth towards Arthur's Seat and Salisbury Crags from the north end of the Esplanade at Kirkcaldy, Fife, on 22nd October, 2023.

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Townhill Loch and Townhill Road

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A view over Townhill Loch, Dunfermline, on 8th August, 2023.

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A laburnum tree in bloom

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A laburnum tree in bloom in the garden of a big Victorian house in Whytehouse Avenue, Kirkcaldy, on 10th June, 2023.

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Kinghorn views

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A view towards the seafront buildings from the braes above the beach at Kinghorn on 31st July, 2024.

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Glenrothes

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A statue of a hippopotamus seen in Glenrothes on 26th April, 2023.

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Christmas has come early!

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It seems that Christmas has come early in Leven! Festive decorations seen in Branch Street on 3rd June, 2024.

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Documentary Photography assignment: Dunfermline

The following is a series of photos which I took for a Documentary Photography assignment for my HND Photography college course. My plan was to replicate the images from a book of historical photos of Dunfermline. I thought this would make a particularly interesting project as Dunfermline must be one of the most comprehensively-ruined towns anywhere in the UK, with its ancient street-layout obliterated and numerous historic buildings demolished to make way for indoor shopping centres, dual carriageways, car parks and gigantic roundabouts. Fabulous for motorists; absolute hell for pedestrians and those reliant upon public transport. Unfortunately, I didn't make a note of the date on which these photos were taken, but I've narrowed it down to sometime between 30th January and 24th April, 2005.

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A view towards Nethertown Broad Street, Dunfermline, from what was formerly the end of Woodmill Road, now obliterated by the St. Margaret's Drive dual-carriageway, circa March 2005. Woodmill Viaduct, built by the North British Railway in 1865 and originally carrying a mineral railway connecting Elbowend Junction on the Elgin Railway and Townhill Junction on the former Dunfermline Branch of the Edinburgh & Northern Railway, is on the left.

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Autumnal colours in the Beveridge Park

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A view along the carriageway in the Beveridge Park, Kirkcaldy, on 28th October, 2023.

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Kirkcaldy, Aberdour and Inverkeithing

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A view at Junction Road, Kirkcaldy, from the upper deck of the bus on which I travelled from Leven to Inverkeithing on 28th August, 2019. This area, like much of Kirkcaldy, was formerly occupied by factories and industrial premises. Most are now moribund or have been demolished. The former Fife Forge in the centre of the photo looks extremely decrepit, but flats of pleasingly Scottish style and scale, as on the right of the photo, have recently been built.

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Bothwell Street, Dunfermline

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I took this photo while waiting for a bus in torrential rain in the dismal no-man's-land that is Bothwell Street, Dunfermline, on 4th July, 2023.

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The Beveridge Park

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A planter with a colourful display of tulips and pansies in the War Memorial Gardens, Kirkcaldy, on 23rd May, 2016.

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A very wet day in the Beveridge Park

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In the Beveridge Park, Kirkcaldy, in the pouring rain in the afternoon of 4th July, 2016.

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Dunfermline City Chambers at dusk

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The clock tower of Dunfermline City Chambers viewed from the bus station at dusk on 18th August, 2016.

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Kirkcaldy and Dunfermline

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Demolition of The Postings shopping centre nearing completion, viewed through the fence surrounding the worksite from Kirkcaldy Bus Station on 9th May, 2023. A new housing development is proposed for the site.

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Along the shore between Kinghorn and Kirkcaldy

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A north-eastward view over the beach at Kinghorn, Fife, on 27th June, 2019.

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Kirkcaldy

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This new building at the corner of the High Street and Oswald's Wynd in Kirkcaldy has been under construction for a while. It occupies the site of the old Co-op department store, where my grandmother worked as an assistant in the footwear department when I was wee. The department store closed and was demolished many years ago and was replaced by an ugly low-rise, flat-roofed building which was completely out of scale and character with its surroundings. It's probably too much to hope that the new building can be described as attractive, but at least it appears to be of a more appropriate scale for its location.

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The rebuilt 'Prom' at Kirkcaldy

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A northward view along the rebuilt 'Prom' at Kirkcaldy on 30th October, 2015. I think the black boulders are basalt that has been brought in from the Orrock Quarry, a few miles outside Kirkcaldy. It's a rusty brown when dry, but black when wet. It'll be pretty hard and dense stuff, but I have my doubts as to how long it'll stay in place as they've just dumped it on the sand.

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The Beveridge Park and the Esplanade, Kirkcaldy

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In the Beveridge Park, Kirkcaldy, on 9th October, 2015.

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Kirkcaldy War Memorial and Art Gallery in the late afternoon of 13th January, 2015.

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Dunfermline nostalgia

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When I worked as an architectural draughtsman in Dunfermline in the early 1980s immediately after I left school, the left-hand corner of The Green Room cafe in the Alhambra Theatre was a tiny record shop. The office I worked in was just around the corner in Abbey Park Place, and I used to hang around in the record shop at dinner times, looking through the album racks. There was a box of 7" singles on the counter and one day I came across Discharge's Realities of War EP. It was a new release and I wasn't familiar with them, but I bought it just because I liked the cover. The raw intensity of it hit me as soon as I got it home and played it, and it turned out to be one of the most important punk records ever. All this came back to me as I was heading up the New Row on 13th March, 2015.

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A walk from Aberdour to Burntisland

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The doorway to the walled garden of Aberdour Castle, with a pediment dated 1632, seen on 20th July, 2015.

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Peafowl in Pittencrieff Park, Dunfermline

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A westward view into Pittencrieff Park, Dunfermline, from the grounds of Dunfermline Abbey on 13th February, 2023.

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A walk from Kinghorn to Kirkcaldy

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Old houses at the foot of Harbour Road, Kinghorn, on 31st August, 2015.

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