Kirkcaldy High Street | How times have changed
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- Опубликовано: 8 май 2024
- Today, myself and Jayden took a walk from Kirkcaldy Harbour and through the High Street.
Great to see how times have changed but is it for the better?
Let us know in the comments about anything you can remember and tell us about some things maybe we've missed out.
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I completely agree with you that it's a very sad state of affairs.
Just how many empty shops there are across many large towns in Scotland and the UK.
They have ripped the soul out of our town centres.😭☹💔
You are absolutely spot-on about the former Littlewoods store.
They also had a small record section and a cafeteria.
The internet has a lot to answer for.
Brilliant video well done guys very interesting can’t wait for the Burntisland fair vlogs 😃
Yeah we agree, going to be good 👍🏻😃
I think that the big store was a Co-op Furniture store.
I know for sure that the Kirkcaldy Indoor Market was a big Woolworths store for many years.
I used to really love the record department in Woolworths.
Opposite old burtons corner of whytes causeway was the maypole (60 years ago) a deli with marble counters loved the smell in there! Young lad you are making some really intelligent comments keep it up!
Well done guys…..a few comments I’ve added….hope they help with identifying some of the buildings along the street……try the Stenlake books on old Kirkcaldy…library maybe has copies…..
I remember the Marks and Spencer store in Kirkcaldy it was a real good sized store.
I remember when M/S reallocated to the new retail park opened up by Sainsburys , to me that was the start of the decline . after that all the big names started to disappear one by one .
Kirkcaldy cinema had 3 screens.
In fact I can remember seeing Mission Impossible 2 there with my cousin. Which starred Glenrothes actor Dougray Scott as the villain and rogue IMF agent.
Kirkcaldy cinema was run by a few different companies such as ABC, Cannon Cinemas and MGM.
And directly across from the Cinema was Pinnacle Mountain Sports which was co-owned and run by my cousin's husband.
Unfortunately places like Tiso and Mountain Warehouse did much more business than Pinnacle could, so had to close.
Betty Nicol's has certainly been well visited by my Dad, brother as well as myself and my uncles.
Thank you for the walk along I've not been in Kirkcaldy for at least 30 years but it is unrecognisable but it's the same every where else i hope you are both well
Evening George, we're all good thanks 👍🏻 Hope you're well 👍🏻 It's definitely changed over the years. I first started going down in the early 90s. I stayed in Glenrothes so would be down in Kirkcaldy maybe once a fortnight or so with my parents. It's a real shame High Streets everywhere are going like this but a mixture of online retailers and people using contactless payments i think are at the heart of it.
I have been to the Gurkha restaurant a couple of times in the past.
But a real family favourite is a wee bit further up the High street and that is the Amritsar Indian restaurant where we have often enjoyed very good food and customer service.
Dunfermline glen and abbey guys would be good history learning lol 😊
Great shout 🙌🏻 definitely some great history there 👍🏻
The store that was WH Smith was also John Menzies Newagents before.
John Menzies was a very similar to WH Smith but a lot better and brighter.
It had a far greater diversity of stock than WH Smith and was also a Scottish company.
Menzies closed all their High Street stores because the son tookover the running of the business and he wanted to take Menzies in a different direction. So, he still did newspapers and magazines but just as a Wholesaler and the Menzies Group has even moved into airport services like providing the air bridges for passengers getting on and off an airliner.
Big store was the co-op
Think bows and bells shop you had a glimpse of was the original pet shop when I was a kid 1970’s
@@Dave-gf6ur interesting 👍🏻 I only ever remember the other pet shop in the high street that recently closed
George hairdresser above the old Macdonalds
Wilkies was the old Dunns clothing store
Nice video, I saw you on Walk on the wildside live the other night. I used to help out sometimes when Ian Joy camera shop was up by McD's when staff were off
Hi David, appreciate it 👍🏻 Yeah, Stephen's brilliant on A walk on the wild side. The guy's full of great information and is always interesting to listen to and watch.
@@AWalkOnTheFifeSide I've watched Stephen for years now, great guy. I'm in Fife too, Rosyth, might bump into you sometime. Take care
Cool mate 😎 if you see us be sure, be sure to come and say hi 👍🏻
Mercat was the cause of the high street demise….as the high street was a linear shoping area, bus stop led people down to the mercat…under cover shopping, this stopped people heading to the east and west end….anyone remember the Arcade ( it’s now Olympia) on the west end? Franks Army store….mr Frank a former polish Paratrooper. Took part in the airborne operation Market, Jumped into Driel September 1944.
COOP Store went on fire…. April 1975….
John Menzies before it was WH Smith’s
Boots the chemist has lasted well ?
Just passed my old flat near the former ABC cinema
@@Dave-gf6ur nice 👍🏻 Did you stay there when the cinema was still open?
@@AWalkOnTheFifeSide yes I got the flat in 1984, so the ABC very active then….
A shadow of its former self Wimpy x 2 one at the Halifax and one near opposite Old Woollies 1978 the High Street is a disgrace Fife Council has a lot to answer for
I was born in Kirkcaldy and still have at least 4 different lots of family in the town.
When I say lots, I mean that they stay in different houses in different parts of Kirkcaldy.
I also have relatives living in Inverkeithing, Methil, Glenrothes; Guardbridge and Strathkinness (approx 2-3 miles outside of St Andrews).
Super cuts …wimpy bar…