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Most town centres in the country are like this now not just Kirkcaldy, which makes you wonder what its going to be like in this country in another twenty years. Dismall prospect indeed.

Get local artists to decorate and display work on shopfronts rather than having them empty. Murals on boarded up properties would brighten the place up too.This could be done quickly as low cost community projects while longer term solutions are looked for. Grants for much needed roof and rainwater repairs would protect at risk properties on the street from further damage.

There used to be 3 or four cinemas in the High Street - in the days !!!

Such a shame what happened to it !!

I grew up in Glenrother in the 60s and 70s and then Kirkcaldy was the main toon - and the place to be !!! - such excitement about the High Street then

So depressing, what a state.

Yes, it's true that the people in Dundee are super friendly because I have friends from here.

The internet has killed many a high street

It like many other town centres, built around big name 80's shopping entities has suffered from lack of Council willingness to adapt quickly and for owners of bigger sites, like, who own's BHS or M&S; no ones going to take a unit that big on any more. Especially if the town their in isn't thriving. Issues with Tesco and the owner of the Postings spelt the end of that unit, and the 4! fires killed Kitties. We really don't need that sort of environment around a town that's struggling. It isn'y all bad though, My wife has said to me on more than one occasion about how much soon and gloom I'm being. So that attitude about a place, which we all have had, doesn't help; there are businesses that are trying to make a go of it' most of the Indoor Marcet stores have units of their own, the frame shop being an example and there is Krafty Fine drinks a new Drinks merchant and tiny wee pub too boot. There is Fire and Lightning in the Marcet for all your D&D and Warhammer needs. The Merchants Quarter is trying its hardest too. One thing I don't think would help is free parking, that horse has already bolted, there's is no going back from the fact that the Retail park is there and that is where, if you have a car you are more likely to go (here is access to the high st. tue and thur's). What need's to improve is the dire Public infrastructure i.e busses! they need improving. We also need spaces to go too that are not just concrete, like maybe turn the postings site into a green space, for people to go and enjoy the Sun! maybe have an open air section for bands or something. there is infinite possibilities that doesn't require lots of cash to do, if you are not so focused on creating house or vacant shop units for know one to use.

Are you allowed to park your car on the high street these days?

Kirkcaldy council made some absolutely massive mistakes, including paving the high street for pedestrian zones and charging for parking. Make the retail inconvenient and expensive to get to and carry shopping from. Great plan, really worked out.

Next time you purchase something from eBay, Amazon or anywhere else online just remember that you helped to destroy the High Street. It's not the fault of the Councils, or the Scottish Government or the SNP, it's undeniably the fault of you the consumer.

Wow, memories of the high street for myself include ,the pet shop near the harbour, the prize bingo ,the fishing tackle shop ,the old cinema,tesco when it was in the market and you went down stairs ,the absolute hussle and bussle of the footpath ,that's when cars still drove on both sides ,better days the early eighties.

If VAT was higher for internet purchases and the money generated was used to lower high street rates for businesses then maybe we.d see the high street being able to compete better and make all our towns better places to be.I can’t just blame the local councils.I feel government has to step in to change things for the benefit of all our towns nationwide.

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Closure of Tesco supermarket around 10 years ago saw a large decline. Was right at the bus station. New supermarkets like Morrison's eventually appeared but not there. Think it would have made a difference if these were in the high street.

Kirkcaldy has been absolutely decimated over the years. I live in Dunfermline and used to like a day out to Kirkcaly in the early 2000s shopping and stuff but its a ghost town now.

it was only about two year ago I was in the indoor market getting a small breakfast in the cafe they were great only £5

I used to work in Kirkcaldy in late 90,s in a Indian Restaurant and was busy. On the high street. What's happening???😢

It is of no coincident (no matter where we live) we all have exactly the same shops left on our high streets.

The council have done nothing (and I mean NOTHING) to attract any inward investment. The natural attraction of the Promenade has never been developed to attract visitors. The Council did spend Hundreds of thousands of pounds reducing the Promenade road from two lanes to one lane, all thats done is cause congestion. Also, would love to see the council Risk Assessment for fire engines attending a fire in Kinghorn now that the Promenade is down to one lane. Kirkcaldy has millionaires travelling past on the A92, millionaires that land at Edinburgh airport, travelling back and forth to St Andrews, not a single thing to attract them. The Council don’t have a single bit of business strategy between them. Look at the Prom, a car wash, a funeral Directors, The Food Warehouse, Kwik Fit, Lidl & Morrisons. Talking about Morrisons, the Council allowed them to build the Cafe within Morrisons overlooking the car park and the back of Links Street, surely the planning department could have insisted that they build a glass fronted Cafe on an upper level over looking the River Forth, enough said. Decades of sad mismanagement!

Masha allah...wow ...i too recently settled in Scotland....Loved ur vlog

The amount of times I've spoken to people about the High Street and they say 'They should do something about all those shop closures' then I say you ever use the High Street and they say naw a get everything fae Amazon. Tah..Dah...

very nice place

nice video

I left Kirkcaldy after the lockdown, It has become overrun by feral kids and I'm not being hyperbolic either. The redevelopment of the esplanade completely congested the route through Kirkcaldy too.

love ur videos !

My home for many years. I tried to sot my house but it was covered by all the trees.

This video made me so happy ❤️

nice place. good video

That’s class. My gran used to live in one of the houses in the letham glen car park area in 70’s That has taken me back. Duck pond. Used to be the foxes hole. Caged foxes. You didn’t make it to the band stand. Maybe it doesn’t exist anymore. Great video tho. Cheers

its a sad state noo a days no wonder i dine want to go into the toon to buy anything place is honkin everythings done online now a days and its sad councils are robbin bstrds chargin folk to much to keep a shop open

ABC cinema….still lies abandoned….i had a flat along this end…..sad to see this once iconic high street in decline…..shocking to see the posting site and Kittys site, former post office … not been back for a while…..thanks for putting this video up

i moved away in 2009 and im heartbroken to see the highstreet this way, i mind what every building used to be and its not there

Online shopping is always very expensive, of questionable quality, and shipping cost are prohibitive...never a good deal and returns are rarely accepted.

Change it. Bring it back. Stop shopping at the big box or big center lstores. Money spent at the big centers never comes back into the local economy. Protect employment. Also close streets to vehicular traffic, make them pedestrian friendly and of course enclose them against the weather.

Lorna and me used to go to Kirkcaldy every Saturday to do our shopping and we could get anything we wanted in the High street

Online shopping only constitutes around 20% of retail sales in the UK. Out of town retail parks are most likely having the biggest impact on town centres.

When seafield colliery closed it effected kirkcaldy in a huge way

Dirty town ruined in the mid eighties bringing scum grasses in from Glasgow

Hm, thanks for sharing my former old and, now so, so quiet, place!! Doesn't seem to be many Danes left over there anymore - from I, who once loved quite a few of them... 😢

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Something to consider: The stolen Stone of Scone was recovered from Westminster Abby on Christmas Day 1950 ! On the Dead Sea Scroll's solar calendar, after the Vernal Equinox starting the next Biblical Year, it was placed on the altar in the ruins of Arbroath Abbey on the 11th April 1951. With a 21st March Vernal Equinox that year, this means that the Stone of Scone was placed on the altar of Arbroath Abby on the last seventh day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread: a Holy High Day ! So in the same BIBLICAL year: • 1951 was 3400 years and the 68th Jubilee after the Exodus from Egypt ! (Working with a 4BC birth of Christ) • Before the next Vernal Equinox King George VI died on the 6th of February 1951. • Queen Elizabeth II immediately ascended the throne - although only later coronated. i.e. The Stone of Scone was recovered in the Jubilee 7x7 49th year of 1950, and later placed on the High Altar of Arbroath Abby on the seventh day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread - in the Jubilee 50th year of 1951 ! The Declaration of Scottish Independence drafted at Arbroath Abby and dated the 6th April 1320, was also in the midst of the Feast of Unleavened Bread: The vernal equinox was the 20th March that year and the 7th April was the 4th day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread that year: the day of Christ’s resurrection on the Biblical annual calendar. So 631 years later (6+3+1=10), on the last 7th Day of Unleavened Bread, being a High Day, the Stone of Scone was placed on the High Alter in the ruins of that very same Arbroath Abby, wrapped in the “Saltire” or “Saint Andrews Cross” - the national flag of Scotland. Saint Andrew was the brother of Peter, and also an apostle and disciple of Christ. In the 1320 “Declaration of Arbroath” the Scott’s claimed to be Israelites who migrated from Egypt to Spain to Ireland and then to Scotland ! Legend has it that the Stone of Scone would sometimes groan when a king was crowned on it. It is now apparent that the Stone of Scone had a flaw in it. It had a faint fracture that could be the cause of the noise when some weightier kings were crowned sitting on it: the fracture gradually progressed further and further under the weight and hence the “groans”. When it was removed from beneath the coronation throne in Westminster Abby on Christmas Day 1950, it finally broke into two pieces in the process. The smaller piece was secretly returned to Scotland almost immediately and the larger piece was returned sometime later. Once re-assembled and re-enforced into the semblance of one stone, it was placed on the alter as described above. When it was later back in Westminster Abby, Queen Elisabeth II was coronated on a broken Stone of Scone - what is the significance and implication of that as we see history unfold ???

🥺 please do more videos on Fife shopping towns reclining. I was born here went to both schools and come the weekend we’d head down the town, spend hours. I was gobsmacked to see the state of Kirkcaldy town centre. How could the council allow this?.

Geez im nearly 70 now and what a change in Kirkaldy i live in Edinburgh now Too much High Prices now

Haven’t been here in years ,love the video debs xx fan

the government really thinks we're idiots 😅 rate of unemployment is becoming inconducive.it's obvious we are headed for hyperinflation, unfortunately having a job doesn’t seem to guarantee total financial stability rather having multiple streams of income that doesn't depend on the government would be a great decision,*

Westminster spends our money on trying to be big on the world stage thus we in Scotland are a second thought #YesScots