Kirkcaldy’s Art Deco Heritage 11. High Street
Posted in Architecture, Art Deco, Kirkcaldy at 13:00 on 23 June 2011
Two very minor pieces of deco on Kirkcaldy High Street. I’ve never been inside either of them.
Above is a close-up of the building housing “Artistry” which as you can see now hosts a hairdressers’. I’ve no idea what it was originally. The windows can’t be original but I like the stepped roof. The street frontage is a typical modern glass and steel effort.
This is further along, beyond the pedestrianised part. As you can see this one hosts a cafe (which has been refurbished recently.) It has a nice wavy stepped frontage but seems to have been squeezed in between two others. Modern windows again. Curiously the cafe’s entrance is not from the High Street but rather up a side street and in round the back.
Alex McLaren
25 February 2012 at 20:49
Could be wrong but sure this was what was once called the “Green Cockatoo” (if it is across from the old ABC cinema) a kind of tearooms which was popular with the more mature generation of the time (Circa 60’s & 70’s)
Later became the continental a bar for the younger generation
jackdeighton
25 February 2012 at 21:23
Yes Alex,
It is across from the old ABC. As I recall The Green Cockatoo had an entrance from the High Street selling baking and such and you could go upstairs to the “sit in” part. It did become the Continental. The High Street frontage is now a jewellery shop instead. The Art Deco style bit in my photo is actually offset from that.
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