Posted in Architecture, Bridges, Dunfermline, History at 20:30 on 5 January 2021
It’s mostly the Queensferry Crossing, not the two older bridges, you can see in this photo. (The white sail-shaped objects in the distance are the bridge’s cable stays.)
Looking the other way from the garden area there is a view of and Dunfermline Abbey and, to the left, the remains of Dunfermline Palace:-
Dunfermline Palace:-
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Posted in Architecture, Dunfermline, Kirkcaldy at 12:00 on 5 August 2018
The Carnegie Library in Dunfermline was undergoing refurbishment for a long while. It reopened last year with exhibition and museum spaces alongside the library files. At least they didn’t get rid of the old library bookshelves in the way that happened at the main Kircaldy Library when it was refurbished a few yaers ago.
From one of the upper exhibition spaces at the new Carnegie there is a great view of Dunfermline Abbey (through glass.)
There is also a gardened area right beside the Carnegie Library with figures of Tam O’Shanter and Souter Johnnie in the circular seating space at centre here:-
The box hedging gives way to a grassed area with intervening espaliered trees:-
More espaliered trees finish the garden off:-
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Posted in Bridges, Dunfermline, War Memorials at 12:00 on 29 August 2016
All three bridges as seen from Dunfermline:-
From grounds of Dunfermline Abbey, bridges in distance on middle left, Dunfermline Great War Memorial to right:-
Zoom on Forth bridges from Dunfermline Abbey:-
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Posted in Art Deco, Dunfermline at 12:00 on 23 May 2016
This is in the upper part of Bruce Street. The deco is mainly the “marble” cladding but there’s a kind of “rule of three” in the detailing lines:-
In the lower part of Bruce Street opposite Dunfermline Abbey lies Life. Both photos taken from the Abbey grounds:-
The cartouche says 1907 but that curved window wall and the glass bricks are deco features.
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Posted in Art Deco, Dunfermline, War Memorials at 14:00 on 27 September 2010
Dunfermline’s First World War Memorial is just over the road from Dunfermline Abbey, or more accurately from the ruins of Dunfermline Palace. Being 1920s in origin there is a touch of Deco about it.
The Second World War memorial is in a smaller garden location adjacent to the Abbey grounds.
This is the Palace ruin. The WW1 memorial is behind to the left here.
Dunfermline was once Scotland’s capital, hence the lines from the poem/ballad Sir Patrick Spens,
“The king sits in Dunfermline toun,
Drinking the blude red wyne.”
Here’s my photo of the Abbey, which lies to the right and above the Palace. You can see its pointed turret in the Palace picture above.
The tower’s rim has King Robert The Bruce carved out in stone on its four sides.
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