New Day: The Birth of Glenrothes (1959)

Commissioned in the 1959 to advertise and show off one of Scotland's new towns, Glenrothes in Fife, Scotland.

[@cbrrocket6]

I still visit " George" his name is Jimmy and lives in Blairgowrie now and is still on the go at 98 years old. Love to see the Old Glenrothes ...been here all my 51 yrs.

[@dundeeutility4899]

Hope jimmy is OK at 102 up in Blair pal 🙏 tell him salute from dundee if he's still with us 👊🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[@JockRFC1]

Then they built macidonia n the glenwood 😭

[@Yorosero]

Passionate gardeners? Walk around those houses now and you'll see weed infested eyesores with junk piled about.

[@towersje]

Different kind of gardening now 😂

[@brucetindal7399]

Trampoline city

[@lks6248]

Ohh the joys of the concrete floored play parks back in the day … plenty broken heads and limbs 😮

[@capt.lovestarii2752]

9:09: swings on concrete. None of that rubber stuff or woodchip to fall on into those days. We got proper injuries.

[@mikem3707]

Hahaha "apart from mountaineering there is no more dangerous pastime for a man, than a woman shopping"

[@MrJamesy1989]

the queen went tae woodside shops

[@jonmurray4930]

She went to the town centre at the Rothes halls

[@alanjames4991]

Aye Looking For Tic

[@jameseadie7145]

Where does the time go, i was 1 year old when this came out.

[@lks6248]

I grew up in Glenrothes…. Couldn’t get out fast enough !

[@tim.timothy.brennan]

Amazing! I was 6 years old in 59 and it is just how it was. The house at the beginning is exactly like the one I lived in, but to the left was lots of trees it could have been the next street before or after though? It was 'Reid Place' anyway. A big van would constantly drive in to the roads to sell groceries then and you would stand in queue, fantastic as a kid rambling about then!

[@davidpanton3192]

Soaring strings! Such optismism about manufacturing and coal! Dressing up to see the Queen! And staggering sexism, of course.

[@ajs41]

The houses look very stark and prison-like compared to the houses in New Towns elsewhere in Britain, like Harlow or Stevenage. It looks like they were trying to save money even more in Scotland compared to England. Maybe something to do with that famous Presbyterian prudence - of never spending a penny more than you could get away with.