A Son of the Rock

I’ve been out and about in Dunfermline with the camera again.

This is an Art Deco building in commercial use fronting onto the street known as the East Port.

A lawyer’s at the moment. Lots of horizontals and verticals.

The side of the building is almost as characterful. You can just see the metal balustrade on the roof towards the rear.

From the side. The extractor fans and fire escape spoil the appearance a bit. The metal balustrade on the roof is more obvious from here. I like the overlaps of the roof edges.

The sticky-out bit at the back. Pity about the fire escape gubbins. Typical rectangular chimney.

The picture below is of the building directly across the East Port. It is the former cinema known in its heyday as the Orient Express. It’s a stitch of two photos. I couldn’t get far enough back to get the whole thing in one shot.

The cinema was built in 1913, before the Deco era, but has some styling to the frontage so I thought I’d post it here. It was converted to a night club in 2004 but that has since closed.