An ‘Old Dunfermline 2025’ calendar is now available and our first image in this week’s trip down West Fife’s Memory Lane features in it.

It is a view looking east along Dunfermline High Street showing the Royal Hotel that used to be situated next to where the Guildhall and Linen Exchange pub is today.

Lipton's supermarket later operated from the cleared site which can be seen in our next image.

Lipton's Supermarket in Dunfermline. (Image: Supplied) Joem Appy remembers working there: “I worked in Lipton's in 1955/6. Great times and a lovely boss. I remember the lady sat up in the room who was the cashier. She had to total costs up in her head - no calculators back then.”

Jenny Simmonds also remembers Lipton's: “ My Grandma and Grandpa used to live next door in the upstairs flat of what was the old Sheriff Court House (now the pub). We were always in and out of Lipton's and the cafe. Mum says one of her earliest memories was watching from the steeple window when the German planes flew up the Forth during WW2.”

The photograph also brings back memories for Rita Inglis: “My mum worked here. I can remember being allowed to stand at the window in the cafe to watch the Pars bringing the Scottish Cup back”.

Our next photograph shows the interior of Dunfermline Post Office when it was situated on the corner of Pilmuir Street and Queen Anne Street.

Inside the Dunfermline Post Office.  (Image: Supplied)John Charles Bosshardt remembers it: “I used to pick up the mail there for Winterthur Silks as their mailboy around1954-1956 when school was out.”

Janet Gibson has some painful memories: “When someone slammed the wooden door on the telephone booth, it took the top off my finger. My dad was so upset. We had a visit to A&E West Fife Hospital in Reid Street so they could stitch it back on. I can still see the sweat on his brow!”

Lynn Clark recalls going there as a child: “Old memories are the best. I remember going in with my mum as a child then opening my own post office account and feeling all grown up.”

Eileen Davidson notes changing attitudes to fashion: “I love the woman in the fur coat. We would certainly be scared to wear one nowadays.”

Our final image is a painting by Adam Westwater of the Post Office building. It was built on the site of the Grammar School which burnt down in the great fire of Dunfermline in 1625.

Painting by Adam Westwater of the Post Office building. (Image: Supplied)

Several stones were retained from the Grammar School which can be seen in the painting and which are still there today on the wall to the right of the Post Office.

This was where Dunfermline High School was situated before relocating to Priory Lane, and later to where it stands today.

The ‘Old Dunfermline 2025’ calendar is available from 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 at facebook.com/olddunfermline.

With thanks to Frank Connelly