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Broadly, 'Old Photos' (this page) are pre-1985, and 'Recent Photos' are 1985 on.
The photos are grouped in the following categories -
School Photos People Streets & Buildings
Beach, Links & Views
Docks, Harbour & Ships
Miscellaneous
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Many thanks to everyone who sent or gave us copies of their old photos and postcards. They are identified below by their full names or initials, and they are Stuart Alexander (SA); the late Bob Angles (BA); John Angles (JA); Douglas Aspinall (DA); Melvin Barnes (MB); David Barrand (DB); Robert Bett (RB); Allan Brown (AB); collection of the late Annie Christie, courtesy of Clark Christie and Chic Hepburn (CC/CH); Chris Claydon (CCl); Lynne Copping (LC); George Coull (GC); David Robertson Collin (DRC); Brian Dewar (BD); Margaret Douglas (MD1); Murray Duncan (MD2); the late James Ewan (JE); Neil Ewan (NE); Michael & Jennifer Griffiths Edwards (MJGE); Ray Fagan (RF); Alex Ferguson (AF); Beryl Guthrie (BG); Janet Henderson (JH); Steve Hodgson (SH); Susan Jarvis (SJ); George Johnston (GJ); Jim Joyce (JJ); Terry Kay (TK); Charles Kilgour (CK); Faye Lane (née Brand) (FL); Keddie Law (KL); Dave Lawson (DL); Helen MacDonald (HM); Gillian Macgregor (GM); Theresa McDougall (TM); Irene Miller (IM); Ian Mollison (IM2); Anita Perna (AP); Tom Plummer (TP); Isabelle Procter (IP); George Maitland Railson (GMR); Tom Reid (TR); Denise Richmond (DR); Pablo Romero (PR); Eric Scotland (ES); Alan Smart (AS); Iain Sommerville (IS); Scott Speedie (SS); Grant Staines (GS); Jim Storrar (JS2); Jimmy Stuart (JS); Brenda Tait (BT); David Tod (DT); Gordon Wallace (GW); Duncan Wardle (DW); Nigel Wedge (NW); Les White (LW); Brian Whitelaw (BW); Maggie Wiggins (née Cook) (MW); Hamish Williamson (HW); Eric Wolske (EW); Maureen Woods (MW); and David Young (DY). Thanks also to John Burnett for helpful information.
March 2016 (Keddie Law).
Keddie Law of Montrose died on 1 March 2016, aged 70. He was born and brought
up in Burntisland, graduated MA Hons
(Geography) at Edinburgh and until his retirement taught Geography and
Geology in Angus. His
support of this website over many years was unrivalled, and I'd like to
formally acknowledge his contribution. Many of the old photos and the
impressive and definitive paper on Burntisland's geology came from
Keddie. I.S.
School
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Burntisland School Board, established in 1873, erected the first building on the Ferguson Place site. It opened in 1876. A second building was added in 1901, to house the new Burntisland Higher Grade School (a basic secondary school). A third building was added at the rear of the site in 1928. The 1901 building (which is the eastern building facing Ferguson Place) and the 1928 building still exist in their original form. A janitor's house was built in about 1900. It is now a privately owned dwellinghouse. (Please click here for the story of James Lothian Mitchell, headmaster from 1892 to 1906.) According to former teacher and school historian Margaret Brown, the 1876 building was reconstructed in 1912. The changes included an expansion of the eastern section from one to two storeys and the incorporation of a gymnasium. Disaster followed shortly after. In March 1913, the 1876/1912 building was largely destroyed by fire. It was speedily rebuilt, and according to Margaret Brown this was "on much the same design, using as much material as could be salvaged from the remains". From 1954 to the 1970s, the Infants' Department was housed in a Medway Hut in Dollar Road. The classes occupying the various buildings have chopped and changed over the years, causing some confusion in the interpretation of the names applied to the buildings. For example, both the 1876 and the 1901 buildings have been described as the "Elementary School", but such a description at a point in time defines the occupants, not the building itself. In due course the two schools on the campus became the primary and secondary departments of Burntisland Junior Secondary School. Attendance at the secondary department was decided on the basis of performance at the Qualifying Examination (equivalent to the Eleven Plus) in Primary 7. Those who passed went on to Kirkcaldy High School, while those who were unsuccessful remained at Burntisland Junior Secondary School, moving from the primary to the secondary department. The
opening of the new
Balwearie Junior Secondary School in Kirkcaldy in 1964 led to the
closure of the secondary department of Burntisland Junior Secondary
School in that year. The primary department of Burntisland Junior
Secondary School then became Burntisland
Primary School.
From 1964, those secondary pupils who would in the past have attended
Burntisland Junior Secondary School went to Balwearie Junior Secondary
School, with the others continuing to go to Kirkcaldy
High School.
In 1972, Balwearie
High School
opened as a fully comprehensive secondary school, and from that date it
took almost all Burntisland secondary pupils (but not those who were
already attending Kirkcaldy High School). St
Marie's RC Primary School and St
Andrew's RC High School, both
in Kirkcaldy, were (and continue to be) options for Roman Catholic
pupils. At the time of writing (early August 2014), Fife Council are working with a firm of architects to develop a feasibility study for the conversion of the listed buildings at Burntisland Primary School into affordable housing. They currently anticipate the delivery of approximately 32 new homes, varying from one-bedroom apartments through to four-bedroom houses, all predominantly within the existing buildings. Included would be a mix of two- and three-bedroom wheelchair accessible houses. The anticipated timetable is: a consultation exercise beginning in mid-August 2014, submission of a planning application in September 2014, and the start of construction in August 2015. Update (December 2014): The planning application for the new housing on the site has now been submitted and can be viewed by clicking here (opens in a new tab or window). There was also a separate Episcopal School in Burntisland, latterly housed in the former Burgh School building at Mount Pleasant. It was a primary school, with the pupils' subsequent secondary education being as described above. As the Episcopal School building latterly had spare capacity, it was sometimes used to house overflow classes from the main school campus. The Episcopal School closed in 1962, with the pupils transferring to the school at Ferguson Place. The building at Mount Pleasant was demolished around 1971. Burntisland
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Mrs Hollingworth's class, |
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Burntisland
Junior Secondary School |
Burntisland
Junior Secondary School |
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Burntisland
Junior Secondary School |
Burntisland
Junior Secondary School (Primary Department pupils, c1949) From Irene Miller, with names. IM. |
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Burntisland
Primary School 1947 From Maureen Woods, with notes. MW. |
Burntisland
Junior Secondary School |
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Burntisland
Junior Secondary School (Primary Department pupils, 1951-52) From Lynne Copping. LC. |
Episcopal School 1952 From Melvin Barnes, with names and notes. MB. |
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Unidentified
1 From George Coull. Please email website manager if you can provide details. |
Unidentified
2 From George Coull. Please email website manager if you can provide details. |
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Unidentified
3 From George Coull. Please email website manager if you can provide details. |
Unidentified 4 From George Coull. Please email website manager if you can provide details. |
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Burntisland
Primary School (1971) From Nigel Wedge, with names |
Infant
School pupils, Dollar Road |
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Burntisland Primary School pupils (early to mid 1930s) From Duncan Wardle, with notes. |
Burntisland
Junior Secondary School (Primary Department pupils, about 1949) From Allan Brown. AB. |
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Burntisland Primary 1a pupils |
Burntisland J. S. School Session 1951-52 |
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Burntisland
Primary 7a pupils (1956-57) From Alan Smart and Keddie Law; with names. |
Burntisland Primary 7b pupils |
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Burntisland
Junior Secondary School (1951-52) 1 From Grant Staines, who is back row, extreme right. |
Burntisland Junior
Secondary School (1957-58) From Jim Joyce; with names. |
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Burntisland
Junior Secondary School (1951-52) 2 From Eric Scotland; with names. |
Burntisland Secondary School pupils |
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Burntisland
Episcopal School pupils |
Burntisland Secondary
School pupils |
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Burntisland
Episcopal School pupils |
Burntisland Primary
School pupils |
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Burntisland Primary
School pupils |
Burntisland Primary
School pupils |
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Burntisland Primary
School pupils |
Burntisland Secondary
School |
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Dollar
Road school building |
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Dollar
Road pupils |
Burntisland
Primary School pupils |
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Burntisland Primary School girls |
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Burntisland
School c1896 |
Burntisland
School c1900 |
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Burntisland
School c1905 1 |
Burntisland
School c1905 2 |
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Burntisland
School c1901 |
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18
old photos from Gordon Wallace |
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Burntisland Silver Band 1925 |
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Burntisland
Golf Club, first winners of the Nairn Trophy (1901) |
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The
Storrar family c1923 |
Crowning
of the Summer Queen |
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British Aluminium 30
Year Club dinner in 1982 From Keddie Law. With names. |
Crowning
of the Summer Queen |
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Burntisland Cubs c1946 Three photos of Burntisland Wolf Cubs, c1946, from Stuart Alexander. SA. |
Four
railway workers c1920s Taken at the old Lammerlaws level crossing, which was roughly where the skate park is now. Courtesy of Terry Kay, York. TK. With notes by Richard Hollingworth. |
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Burntisland Co-op
staff, horses and wagons A collection of eight old photos with notes by Alex Ferguson. AF. |
Staff of Robertson's Kirkton Stores c1954-55 With notes by Les White and comments by Stuart Alexander and George Page White. LW. |
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George
Barrand with the Co-op Bakery horse and van Probably early 1950s. From George's son, David, who lives in Australia. DB. |
The cast of "Jan of Windmill
Land" Probably outside the Music Hall. 1929. JH. With notes by Wendy Hurley. |
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Motor
cycling with the Binn House in the background (1923) |
Burntisland
Pipe Band 1 |
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The summer fair |
Burntisland Pipe Band 2 |
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Burntisland
Pipe Band 4 |
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Street
parade (early 1950s) 1 Isa Duncan's Dancing Troupe. FL. |
Burntisland Pipe Band 5 |
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Street
parade (early 1950s) 2 |
A
public proclamation by the Provost |
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Street
parade (early 1950s) 3 |
Dick Crescent & Rossend Avenue |
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Street
parade (early 1950s) 4 |
Dick Crescent & Rossend Avenue |
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Inside
the aluminium works CC/CH. |
Burntisland
Cricket Club in 1909 BD. |
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British
Aluminium Company workers KL. |
G.
Mitchell, notable Burntisland cricketer |
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Burntisland
laundry ladies and van CC/CH. |
The
King's visit to Burntisland (c1950-51) With notes by Allan Brown. AB. |
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Crowning of the Summer Queen, early 1960s 12 snapshots. CCl. |
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Kirkton |
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High
Street |
High Street west Early 20th centiury. CCl. |
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East
Leven Street |
Porte
Buildings Date unknown. KL. |
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The
Port (circa 1906) |
The Co-op
buildings in the High Street |
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Burntisland
High Street (probably 1960s) |
Craigholm
Crescent and Links |
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Craigholm
Crescent |
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Harbour
Place 1 A good view of the buildings and adjacent railway sidings. KL. |
Buccleuch
Place and Craigholm Crescent |
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Harbour
Place 2 |
Cromwell
Road c1913 KL. |
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Bentfield
c1915 |
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The
High Street and public library |
The East Porte 1 |
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The
High Street |
The East Porte 2 |
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The
old swimming pool 1 |
The East Porte 3 |
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Robertson's
boot and shoe shop |
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The
old swimming pool 3 |
The Binn Hill and Binn
House |
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The
old swimming pool 4 |
The
Sea Mill The old mill was operated by tidal waters. KL. |
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The
Porte junction and Cromwell Road BD. |
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Rossend
Castle
1 |
Cowdenbeath Road and surroundings c1964 With notes by Keddie Law. KL. |
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Rossend Castle 2 |
A
cottage at Newbigging Farm Probably early 20th century. DY. |
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Rossend
Castle 3 |
Ferguson
Place |
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Dick
Terrace |
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James
Park |
High
Street, west end Probably late 19th century. SH. |
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Burntisland from the east |
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Aerial
view of Burntisland |
View
of the Kirkton |
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Kirkton
and Grange |
Kirkton |
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View
from the Binn 1 |
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View
from the Binn 2 |
Burntisland beach 3 |
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The Links 1 |
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The Links 2 |
The
beach tearoom and baths |
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The
Links 3 |
The Lammerlaws |
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The Links 4 |
The
Putting Green 1 |
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The Links and East Porte |
The
Putting Green 2 |
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Burntisland from the golf course |
The beach and pleasure boats c1961 |
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The
Binn and the Beach |
Golfers
on the Links and Craigkennochie Terrace |
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Fishing
village near Lammerlaws |
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The
S.S. William Muir |
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The
M.V. Sincerity in the East Dock |
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The
West Dock
1 |
Burntisland
docks 2 |
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The
West Dock 2 |
Burntisland
docks 3 (with other features) |
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The
West Dock 3 |
The
P.S. Fair Maid |
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The Verrecchia family of
the Imperial Café |
Brian Dingwall's dinghy, "The Morag" DA. |
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Bowling
Green and Tennis Court |
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Doyle's Holiday Camp at Kingswood |
The
old cricket ground |
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The
British Aluminium Works, circa 1938 With notes on the aluminium works by Keddie Law. KL. |
A
steam hauled train on the embankment Probably dating from the 1950s. IS. |
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A British Aluminium Company locomotive With Willie Wishart, Micheal McDonagh and Willie Law. KL. |
An
old postcard with 5 views High Street, Castle gateway, beach, West Haugh, docks. KL. |
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The British Aluminium factory and a freight
train Probably dating from the 1960s. IS. |
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