Excellent! Starts S.Queensferry not North. Goes up M90 but then confusingly enters Crossgates by the Dales road from InvKthg (1.00). 1.35 looks twds Hill of Beath. 2.25 - 4.06 is all C'beath. 4.06 to 5.13 I don't recognise. 5.15 looks like Beath Senior High. 5.29 - 5.58 is Berry St area of L'Gelly looking through to Hills of Fife cleaners next old cinema. 6.00 - 6.13 is Bowhill shops in Cardenden. Then Ballingry with the primary school at LHS. Ends looking towards Lurgie gas plant I think
Thank you for sharing this. It really takes me back as I grew up in Dunfermline and knew these areas of West Fife well. There have been so many changes since the late 1960s
Brilliant footage of old fife,last section is definitely Ballingry, I grew up there in the sixties and seventies,big thank you for posting this,it should be treasured.
Cowdenbeath just as I remembered it when I lived there. I would be around 6/7 at this time. What a great find and thanks for sharing this! A real treasure!
Was always excited to travel up from Aldershot to get on the ferry from South Queensferry to cross the Forth on my way home to Gran's house in Buckhaven when I was just 6-7. Wonderful memories. You can take the girl out of Fife but you can never take Fife out the girl 😁
This footage is priceless I hope the original is in a museum or someplace , fantastic, I recognize crossgates cowdenbeath lochgelly and without doubt benarty square,ballingry.☺
Starts in North Queensferry and then goes through Crossgates to Hill of Beath (White Elephant pub) followed by extensive look at Cowdenbeath High Street (Picture House, Town House, Central Park) a quick scan of flats in Lochgelly and then on to Cardenden finishing in Ballingry (I think)
About 1 minute 1 it's through Crossgates, then direction Cowdenbeath. The wee white buildigs were pig-pens IIRC Down into Cowdenbeath, The Miners' Training School on the left and the Institute on the right, Leaving the town,from 4 minutes on looks like from Lumphinnans Road towards Lochgelly. @5.20 is that the new school in Lochgelly?
you can see divitos in crossgates on the left very clearly but i cant see in the clip any evidence of my great grandfathers business ( crossgates fruit and potatoe merchants ) was very interested to find this on here though
Great little film - Fife is a wonderful place!
Excellent! Starts S.Queensferry not North. Goes up M90 but then confusingly enters Crossgates by the Dales road from InvKthg (1.00). 1.35 looks twds Hill of Beath. 2.25 - 4.06 is all C'beath. 4.06 to 5.13 I don't recognise. 5.15 looks like Beath Senior High. 5.29 - 5.58 is Berry St area of L'Gelly looking through to Hills of Fife cleaners next old cinema. 6.00 - 6.13 is Bowhill shops in Cardenden. Then Ballingry with the primary school at LHS. Ends looking towards Lurgie gas plant I think
Bowhill and Dundonald at the end, Great stuff !!!!!.
Thank you for sharing this. It really takes me back as I grew up in Dunfermline and knew these areas of West Fife well. There have been so many changes since the late 1960s
Brilliant footage of old fife,last section is definitely Ballingry, I grew up there in the sixties and seventies,big thank you for posting this,it should be treasured.
Just visited Fife 2015. Both sides of my family are from Fife. This film adds to the story. Thanks for sharing.
I was born in 1967 and I have lived in fife all my life love it x
you must like being really depressed😂
Cowdenbeath just as I remembered it when I lived there. I would be around 6/7 at this time. What a great find and thanks for sharing this! A real treasure!
It's such a lovely feeling seeing the places we were brought up. I still think about Fife and how it was when I was wee.
Was always excited to travel up from Aldershot to get on the ferry from South Queensferry to cross the Forth on my way home to Gran's house in Buckhaven when I was just 6-7. Wonderful memories. You can take the girl out of Fife but you can never take Fife out the girl 😁
This footage is priceless I hope the original is in a museum or someplace , fantastic, I recognize crossgates cowdenbeath lochgelly and without doubt benarty square,ballingry.☺
Brilliant find! Well done you, for saving it.
what surprised me was the amount of traffic on the roads back then
Lived in Ballingry and lochore in the 60s and 70s thanks for posting this it was good to see the old place
I remember so much of that, started life in Ballingry and then lived in Dunfermline, I grew up in the 60's so all that if familliar.
thanks very much for the curation!
Ive lived in fife for about 7 years but still dont know it too well... Ill ammend my description.
Thanks again.
4.06 is taken from the old Beath High in Stenhouse Street and shows Central Park and the surrounding waste ground where the No 7 pit was located
Starts in North Queensferry and then goes through Crossgates to Hill of Beath (White Elephant pub) followed by extensive look at Cowdenbeath High Street (Picture House, Town House, Central Park) a quick scan of flats in Lochgelly and then on to Cardenden finishing in Ballingry (I think)
Great video :-) Thanks for sharing - from Fife
The last bit is definately the Benarty Square in Ballingry
What a terrific Find BBC or STV would love to show that all over
this movie should be put onto dvd just in case something happens to it. would like a copy of this so i can take stills from it to put on the wall
Sure at 3:00 is Cowdenbeath High Street with the railway passing over the road
About 1 minute 1 it's through Crossgates, then direction Cowdenbeath. The wee white buildigs were pig-pens IIRC Down into Cowdenbeath, The Miners' Training School on the left and the Institute on the right, Leaving the town,from 4 minutes on looks like from Lumphinnans Road towards Lochgelly.
@5.20 is that the new school in Lochgelly?
you can see divitos in crossgates on the left very clearly but i cant see in the clip any evidence of my great grandfathers business ( crossgates fruit and potatoe merchants ) was very interested to find this on here though
Wee bit near the end is Bowhill,
At 6.06 that is Station Road, Cardenden.
It's to the locals Bowhill, the shops with the sunshades down, was the grocers, on the left, Wm. Low, next door to the right, Hays.
@anneholiday it was the greenside one in edinburgh
what a wee gem of a find...did u know what was on it when u bought it?
I wish I could find these kind of things too. It's a wee beauty!
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thanks very much for the curation!
Ive lived in fife for about 7 years but still dont know it too well... Ill ammend my description.
Thanks again.