I did promise in my one year’s anniversary post that I would put up some pictures of Art Deco in Dunfermline. This is the first set.

Of 1936 vintage, this is very similar in style to the Fire Station in Kirkcaldy which, being constructed a year or so later, is said to be a copy. There is interplay between verticals and horizontals here but this building lacks the painted highlights, the ironwork balconies and the East Coast vernacular chimney stacks of the Kirkcaldy one.

Dunfermline Fire Station is being replaced by a new building lower down the town. It has been proposed that this present building should be turned into an Arts centre.

The view from the west.

Rear view. Typical thirties window styling.

Detail on west side.

Detail on brickwork at front.

Pillar embellishment at front.

View from East.

As this view shows the long window slopes and in its present form obviously dates from the refurbishment of 1986.