Our Home Town - Dunfermline

Main Visitor Attractions

Dunfermline Abbey, the resting place of King Robert the Bruce

Dunfermline Abbey

Andrew Carnegie Statue in Dunfermline Glen

Dunfermline is the birthplace of Andrew Carnegie the Steel Industrialist who was, perhaps, the richest man in the world, but before he died, gave most of his money away.
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Dunfermline Glen was one of his gifts to the town of Dunfermline.


Views of Dunfermline

Dunfermline High Street - the lower end that has not changed much over the years.
Below the Clock Tower is the Town Hall. Dunfermline has many other fine buildings.

Looking across the old part of Dunfermline from the viewing point on the Kingseat Road

Another view from Kingseat Road, but this time across the newer part of Dunfermline.


Other Places of Interest

The new Leisure Park at Halbeath.
At the moment it consists of a Cinema complex and a Health and Leisure Centre.
There are also the inevitable fast food restaurants.

Townhill Loch has been drained, cleaned and landscaped and is now the home of the Scottish Water Ski Association.

This area was once the Dunfermline Upper Railway Station. After lying derlict for many years it was developed as a Retail Park.

The Kinema Ballroom as it is now.
Many famous groups played here in the 60's and 70's

The new Queen Anne High School .

The old school, built in the 1960's, which is about to be demolished

One of the ponds built to handle excess surface water in the new Eastern Expansion for Dunfermline. They have already attracted swans and other birds.