Archives » High Street

Kirkcaldy (And District)’s Lost Art Deco Heritage. 4. Gaumont, High Street

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.

 

Scotland’s Art Deco Heritage 35: Ayr (i) Minor Deco

On corner of Fort Street and Barns Street:-

Art Deco Influenced Building Ayr

On corner of Garden Street and River Street:-

Minor Art Deco, Ayr

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

The Kyle, Ayr

High Street frontage:-

Art Deco Kyle Former Shopping Centre, Entrance

Remembrance Poppies, Dunfermline

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:-

Dunfermline Poppies, 2020

More Poppies, Dunfermline 2020

Lower High Street:-

Dunfermline Town Centre Poppies 2020

Carnegie Drive:-

Poppies on Safety Rails, Carnegie Drive, Dunfermline 2020

Dunfermline Roadside Poppy 2020

On main roundabout
Poppies on Roundabout, Dunfermline 2020

Appin Crescent:-

2020, Poppies, Dunfermline

None of the last tfour photographs was taken by the driver!

Alness and Wester Rosskeen War Memorial

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.

Alness War Memorial

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:-

Alness War Memorial  from East

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

Alness War Memorial from West

free hit counter script