Trip down Memory Lane for Old Dunfermline calendar

It dates from a time when traffic was permitted to drive up and down through the Public Park and shows people enjoying a musical performance in the Bandstand.

Jean Murray remembers the park: “I walked through that park everyday when living in the prefabs in Malcolm Street in the Rex Park. I had to walk to Commercial School in East Port Street-no school buses in those days”.

Fiona McGregor has good reason to remember the road through the park: “I remember my dad driving me that way when I was in labour on the way to the Maternity Home. I thought I was going to deliver on route with all the bumps in the road!”.

One of the best remembered cafes in Dunfermline was Malocos that was situated beside the Regal Picture House.

There are a number of photographs showing the exterior of the café but our next image shows the interior and was provided by Dunfermline Press reader Angela De Hollander (nee Maloco).

The interior of Malocos Cafe. (Image: Contributed) Angela describes the photograph as follows: "I finally found one of the interior of the cafe (from after the renovation so around 1966). It's looking up to the back of the cafe, with the door to the downstairs cafe on the left and the door to the flat above in the centre."

Maggie Dempster remembers frequenting the café: “Three generations of our family loved Malocos. Our mum worked there as a youngster and we really enjoyed the treat of going there for food. Great place and a joy to spend time there with family”.

Helen Menzies remembers the downstairs part of Maloco’s café: “I remember those days! I was often in there with my mum and downstairs there was a fantastic high tea place with waitress service and the old style basket chairs”

Janine Leishman also recalls the venue in detail: “I remember the green cane glass-topped round tables and the amazing staircase that led down in a cavernous fashion from the narrower cafe itself. The noise of the barista machine making the milky coffees in my early teenage years is a sound that brings back so many memories!”

Bill Miller also remembers the area: “Malocos was just the other side of the Regal from one of my father's chemist shops, the Central Pharmacy. I had many a cup of coffee there”.

Hoeys on the corner of the High Street and Bruce Street (Image: Contributed) Our final photograph is of a department store that was situated on the corner of the High Street and Bruce Street called Hoeys, with the staff lined up outside.

The ‘Old Dunfermline’ calendar is on sale in the shops in Abbot House and Dunfermline Carnegie Library and Galleries, as well as online at olddunfermline.com/shop.

More images like these can be seen in DCLG as well as online at facebook.com/olddunfermline.

The Old Dunfermline 2025 calendar. (Image: Contributed) With thanks to Frank Connelly.