Fife - 1967. 16mm B&W movie PT2

[@gaudd]

I was 2 at the time living in Cowdenbeath. How so different it was then. I moved away when I was 16 but the memory of what it was and what it was reduced to after Thatcher wrecked it will never leave me.

[@gillianhenderson5910]

I was born in 1967 and I have lived in fife all my life love it x

[@westaussie965]

you must like being really depressed😂

[@alasdairgordon1898]

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

[@jimduffy1967]

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.

[@bobbankshuntly]

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

[@frankinfife]

Bowhill and Dundonald at the end, Great stuff !!!!!.

[@karendalgleish1596]

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!

[@somethingbright4268]

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.

[@loislee4638]

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 😁

[@andrewshepherd5880]

Just visited Fife 2015. Both sides of my family are from Fife. This film adds to the story. Thanks for sharing.

[@TheAspadistra]

Brilliant find! Well done you, for saving it.

[@jimduffy1967]

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.☺

[@lynjones3259]

Great little film - Fife is a wonderful place!

[@jrannandale]

Lived in Ballingry and lochore in the 60s and 70s thanks for posting this it was good to see the old place

[@Parsfan1885]

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.

[@maggiewish234]

what surprised me was the amount of traffic on the roads back then

[@nickdudman82]

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.

[@formonthills]

Great video :-) Thanks for sharing - from Fife

[@Bleubrazil]

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

[@derekmethven6638]

The bing at 2.39 is enormous. I wish Fife had kept some.

[@Bleubrazil]

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)

[@lorrainegronkowska4817]

The last bit is definately the Benarty Square in Ballingry

[@HohnerMadJock]

What a terrific Find BBC or STV would love to show that all over

[@badyin]

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?

[@huggy176]

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

[@MalkyMcCallum]

Sure at 3:00 is Cowdenbeath High Street with the railway passing over the road

[@HendoLawdy]

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

[@darkglobe9398]

Wee bit near the end is Bowhill,

[@StewartNicolasBILLYCONNOLLY]

At 6.06 that is Station Road, Cardenden.

[@martinanderson1995]

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.

[@TheMichellepop]

what a wee gem of a find...did u know what was on it when u bought it?

[@somethingbright4268]

I wish I could find these kind of things too. It's a wee beauty!

[@nickdudman82]

@anneholiday it was the greenside one in edinburgh

[@roberteasson7820]

Bowhill carendenden

[@ionawelsh]

O.O

[@nickdudman82]

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.