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Big Alex · Joined: 12 Jul 2008 Posts: 468 Location: Cotswolds

Need some help from some oldies like me Sad

I was a kid in KDY in the 50s/60s and my Gran had a flat on the High Street. My own grandkids have been asking about my life in KDY back then and I was trying to tell them about visiting MY grandparents. I tried to show them the flat in the High Street, but clearly things have changed in 60 years!!!!!!!

Can anyone confirm that the Nickel and Dime hardware shop was a picture house (Gaumont?) back then? My gran's flat entrance was immediately to the left (Red sandstone, gated). It looks correct but it was long ago and a bit hazy.
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scotty · Joined: 12 Jul 2008 Posts: 8723 Location: Almost Dysart.

Nope Alex, Nicle and Dime is further east between the ABC Cinema and the old Woolworths, it sits on the site of the SSEB showroom and before that what was Coopers fine fare.

The Gaumont (old Odeon) burned down around 1974-76 and is opposite where McDonalds was in the new builds where the early learning centre and Greener Kirkcaldy was, if you look at photos of the street you see the 3 newer stone fronted shops of which the post office is the last before Rymans Stationary(?) that was the site.
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Big Alex · Joined: 12 Jul 2008 Posts: 468 Location: Cotswolds

Thanks Scotty.
Just had a look on Google Maps / Street View and what was my Gran's flat is above Greener Kirkcaldy and Apollo Blinds, to the left (East) of Nickel and Dimes.

Just shows how hazy things get in old age................I was sure Nickel and Dimes was on the site of a picture house (whether the Gaumont or ABC - can remember there was the two but which was close by is the hazy bit.)

Thanks again
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