Posted in Architecture, Art Deco, Cinemas at 12:00 on 2 September 2024
I thought I’d posted about this one but it seems I haven’t. Variously the Rialto, Gaumont and Odeon this cinema was at 204 High Street, Kirkcaldy.
See photo on the Scottish Cinemas website.
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Posted in Architecture, Art Deco, Trips at 20:00 on 26 July 2023
On corner of Fort Street and Barns Street:-

On corner of Garden Street and River Street:-

Art Deco detailing on the Kyle Shopping Centre in Ayr, now closed. Carrick Street frontage:-

High Street frontage:-

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Posted in Dunfermline, War Memorials at 12:00 on 10 June 2021
We quite often go into Dunfermline.
Late last October the town (Sorry, it’s a city now) was festooned with poppies in the run-up to Remembrance Day.
Carnegie Library, Abbot Street:-


Lower High Street:-

Carnegie Drive:-


On main roundabout

Appin Crescent:-

None of the last tfour photographs was taken by the driver!
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Posted in Trips, War Memorials at 12:00 on 4 August 2018
Alness is a town in Easter Ross and Cromarty about three miles from Invergordon.
Its War Memorial lies at the end of the High Street at its junction with Obsdale Road.
It’s unusual for a War Memorial to be constructed from red sandstone as this one is. The shape of the curved base is also uncommon.

The inscription on the column reads, “The Great War 1914-1918. This stone commemorates the men of Alness and West Rosskeen who at their country’s call went forth to defend their homes and empire, endured untold sufferings and passed from the sight of men by the path of duty and sacrifice.”
And on the base, above the names, “Their dust is in the deserts and the deep sea and yet triumphant o’er the grave their spirits never sleep but guard the freedom which they died to save.”
View from east, Great War names on curved base, Second World War names on plinth below:-

From west. Again Great War names on curved base, Second World War names on plinth below:-

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