Kirkcaldy’s Art Deco Heritage 12. Nicol Street.
Posted in Art Deco, Bridges, Kirkcaldy at 19:00 on 27 December 2011
I’ve been waiting a couple of years to post this one. When I first photographed this building it looked like this:-
Prior to having been left more or less to rot for a good few years it had been a Vogue Furniture shop – in fact the good lady and I had bought a chair from it not long after moving in to Son of the Rock Towers. Long before that I believe it had been a garage, with those doors that opened very wide so that the cars could be driven in and out. That was many years before we moved to Kirkcaldy, though.
It’s been undergoing refurbishment recently and has now opened as an Undertaker’s – the business moving from a hundred or so yards away round a corner.
So now it’s much more spruce. This one shows a bit of the railway bridge over Nicol Street. And the clock on the wall.
You’ll notice the flagpole has gone. Quite why an undertaker’s needs a clock I don’t know. Here’s the front view. There’s a high tech steel staircase inside that you can barely see due to the reflections.
Crosbie and Matthew seem to call themslves Funeral Directors. (At least it’s not morticians.)
Two more photos – one of the dilapidated building, the other of the refurbished one – are on my flickr.
Tags: Art Deco, Bridges, Nicol Street, railway
Alex McLaren
25 February 2012 at 20:44
This was a car showroom at one time (Harry K. Browns)
Can’t quite remember if it was a dealership for any particular manufacturer or just a general second hand car dealer.
The railway bridge to the left is quite recent as it replaced a sandstone block arch type which was deemed unfit for purpose by engineers.
jackdeighton
25 February 2012 at 21:15
Thanks Alex,
A car showroom makes more sense of what I was told about it. Harry K Browns was before my time in Kirkcaldy.
They had glass slips cemented into the old rail bridge (to see if it was moving) before they replaced it.
Kirkcaldyâs Art Deco Heritage 12. Update. – A Son of the Rock -- Jack Deighton
4 October 2012 at 12:08
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Willie 1250
26 January 2014 at 22:03
It was a Ford main dealer also in Dunfermline very close to East end park
jackdeighton
27 January 2014 at 19:24
Thanks for the info Willie.
And thanks for looking in.