Here’s some photos I took a few weeks ago starting at Pathhead, then going along Nairn St and Victoria Rd, and on down to Kirkcaldy Harbour.
The first photo shows Pathhead main street, Commercial St, which satisfies my love of old chimneys. The second and third photos are of a small church, built in 1869, tucked away from the main road and adjacent to an old cemetery (see photos below).
Pathhead Commercial Street
Congregational Church Pathhead, Kirkcaldy
Congregational Church Pathhead, Kirkcaldy
At the end of the short lane (Pathhead Court) with the church, is a small cemetery, which appears to be locked most of the time. It backs onto the building which used to be the Head Office of Nairn Linoleum works (once, one of the major employers in Fife), but it is now luxury apartments.
Pathhead Cemetery, Kirkcaldy
In the background of the photo above, the last remnants of the Nairn Linoleum Works can be seen.
Pathhead Cemetery, Kirkcaldy, with the old Nairn Head Office in background
Part 2 to follow soon – Photographs from Victoria Rd to Dunnikier Rd.
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Great photos as always. I always loved the smell of linoleum coming from Nairns. Since I print with lino, the smell of the blocks makes me nostalgic.
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Thanks Laura 🙂 That’s got me intrigued, how do you print with lino blocks? I must confess, it’s not one of my most favourite smells, I’m not sure if I would have been so keen to spend a few hours walking around that end of Kirkcaldy when the lino works was in its heyday!! 🙂
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I love smells like linoleum and creosote. Maybe I’m a weirdo. Lino block printing involves carving into the surface of the linoleum and then rolling the block with ink and lifting a print from it. Here’s one of my blog posts (on my art blog) that shows the process a bit: https://pictink.wordpress.com/2014/11/05/danae-block-print/
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Loved seeing those old chimneys too. Reminds me of the house we had when I was s child.
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It sounds like you must have been brought up in a Victorian house Sylvia, many had a fireplace in almost every room 🙂
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I like the black and white shots, but would love to see them in color as well. I don’t mean you need to put them here in color, just that I always enjoy the contrast in mood and feel between B&W and color of the same shot. Hope your week’s off to a good start and nice to see you. Not sure whether you’ve not been posting or I’ve just not had time to visit much on the days you have.
janet
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I’ll do a post at the end just showing the colour versions of each photo Janet, I’m just going through a black & white phase at the moment 🙂
And thank you, the week has started off quite well, and you’re right, I’ve not been on the blog for a while, but hopefully I’ll have the time to get back into it now. I’ve missed chatting to you and the other wonderful wordpress bloggers out in blogworld 🙂
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Beautiful little chapel!
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Thanks Sarah 🙂 It is quite wee, I never knew it was there until very recently, it’s just tucked off the main road – which proves what I’ve always said, you only truly get to know a place by spending time walking around, you miss so much when you’re in a car 😦
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You’re so right!! We all need to slow our pace out and about so we don’t miss all the little treasures hiding in plain sight 😉
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Gorgeous and peaceful place to live 🙂 Happy to see your post today. Way to go 🙂
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Thanks Martina 🙂
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Nicely taken
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Thank you 🙂
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Great monochrome shots, especially the trees in the cemetery and your chimneys are cool too. So a manufacturer closes down, presumably jobs are lost and the building becomes luxury flats, everything is becoming luxury flats! I suppose Nairn’s loss was cheap Chinese imports gain.
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Thanks Gilly 🙂 I agree with you about everything becoming ‘luxury’ flats, it would be wonderful to have seen the place given to all the workers who had lost their jobs!!! And I’m guessing you’re right about the Chinese imports, our various governments and people in general, often take a very short term view on most things. The UK now has virtually no manufacturing left, which can’t be a good thing for anyone, other than the Chinese of course! I must bite my tongue, otherwise I’ll start down the politics route Gilly, and that would keep me writing forever! Lol!
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That last photo is exemplary, Andy! I think it’s one of my all time favorites of your work! Glad to see you back, my friend! Now if I could find a spare moment myself to get back to writing
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Thank you very much Lori 🙂 Glad you like the photo. I know what you mean about finding the time to write some posts, that’s been my problem since Christmas 😦 , but hopefully I shall be back to commenting and posting a wee bit more often now 🙂
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You didn’t nip up the road for a fish supper from Rinaldi’s?
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Wow Su………..you know about Rinaldi’s 🙂 , it’s our favourite fish n chips, but alas it was early Sunday morning, so no fish suppers 😦
Did you know that the ‘English’ and the ‘Cornish’ wouldn’t know what you meant by a fish supper, it confused me when I first moved up here! Lol! 🙂
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A fish supper (or sometimes a white pudding supper) was always a must when I was visiting Kirkcaldy. I haven’t had one for a few years now (much harder to get there from Auckland than from Bucks). My partner still does a double-take when I talk about “suppers”, and he’s had them!
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The ‘supper’ thing confused me at first Su 🙂 My wife is from Glasgow, and when I first moved up here, one of the kids asked me for ‘a piece and ham’ as a snack, so I duly gave them a piece of ham!!! It took me a wee while to get used to that meaning a ham sandwich! Lol!
On the white pudding front, I keep meaning to try it, we have a ‘hogs’ pudding down in Cornwall that looks very similar, and tastes wonderful.
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Hehe. I haven’t heard anyone talk about a “piece” for years. My son discovered white pudding here (there’s one company in the south island that makes it), and has become a convert. It’s easier going than black pudding!
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I think almost anything is easier than black pudding Su! LOL! 🙂 But it’s good to hear that you can still get hold of white pudding in NZ 🙂
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Intellectually, I agree. But I still quite like the stuff!
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Lol!! 🙂
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Dumb question! If Rinaldi’s is your favourite, does that mean it’s also your local. Or is it considered “that good.”
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It’s local-ish Su, we live 5 miles away, so go down there to get a chippy and sit on the beach, either Ravenscraig or Seafield Castle beaches 🙂
Our real local is Dom’s, but we prefer to use KK’s in Leslie 🙂
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Just thinking about a fish supper at Ravenscraig makes me all nostalgic.
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You’ll have to save up your pennies, and come back to Scotland just to have a fish supper, or of course, a white pudding supper, or even a piece and chips! 🙂
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I’m definitely overdue a trip. Funny, I can’t think of bread with chips as anything but a chip buttie.
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It was an unfortunate choice of mine, to have chosen something to have with a piece, I must admit, it’s a chip buttie to me too 🙂
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All lovely photos, Andy, but I must admit my favourite is the first one. I love the chimneys, and the street itself reminds me of so many I saw as a child. I’m a big fan of b/w too.
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Thanks Millie 🙂 I can’t get enough of old chimneys for some strange reason, but there aren’t that many places around here that I’ve located to get photographs that look half decent. And the street itself looked far more atmospheric in the bw version, than in the original colour version 🙂
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I love old chimneys, too. There are some interesting ones to be seen when you travel about. The ones on your photos looked really good, too. 🙂
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