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Chandler's Walk, DUNFERMLINE, KY11 9FH

On the slopes of Letham Hill.

A wooded hill above Dalgety Bay. Rather muddy today.

The grey stone building near the top of the picture is Letham Farm House it used to be one of the few buildings in the square which was mostly farmland. Dalgety Bay has expanded so much in this past ten years the house is now surrounded.

Heading in a generally easterly direction..

Memorial to the personnel who served at Donibristle airfield and aircraft repair yard from 1917 to 1959, at Dalgety Bay railway halt Image

A memorial to the military and civilian personnel who served at Donibristle airfield and aircraft repair yard from 1917 to closure in 1959. At Dalgety Bay Halt, Hillend. Simon Johnston's photo and description from 2005 Image contains a lot of information and links. After 7 years the roundel has become a little flakey and the plaque is not so clear to read Image Currently in the news because many aircraft surplus to requirements were broken up and dumped in the area, and radioactive particles can be found on the nearby beach. These have come from the instruments which had luminous paint on their dials to allow them to be read at night, much as watches did in earlier days.

In recognition of all civil and military personnel (the Donibees or sometimes misspelled Donnybees) who served at nearby Donibristle airfield and aircraft repair yard 1917-1959. Millennium Award. Sited at Dalgety Bay railway station. The immediately recognisable Spitfire wingtip shape is not coincidental. The signal in the background is situated at the west end of Platform 2, Dalgety Bay station on the Scottish East Coast Main Line Railway. The airfield at Donibristle was opened in 1917 as a base for the Royal Naval Air Service (Fleet Air Arm). During World War II as HMS Merlin it was used as a Royal Naval Aircraft Repair Yard. After the war it was renamed HMS Cochrane, and decommissioned in 1959. http://web.archive.org/web/20060925203908/http://www.sepa.org.uk/pdf/radioactivity/dalgety_risk_assessment_report.pdf : see page 9 for an interesting aerial shot of Donibristle area during the time of MOD occupation. More on Donibristle Image Historic photos of Donibristle http://www.scran.ac.uk/database/results.php?&search_term=Donibristle Fleet Air Arm's 805 Squadron of Blackburn Rocs was formed at Donibristle in early May 1940 https://web.archive.org/web/20160303174146/http://freespace.virgin.net/john.dell/blackburn_roc.htm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackburn_Roc Fleet Air Arm's 100 Squadron of Vickers Vildebeests was formed at Donibristle in Oct 1932. Fleet Air Arm's 820 Squadron of Fairey Swordfish http://archive.is/20130502062635/http://www.fleetairarmarchive.net/aircraft/Swordfish.htm and later Barracudas was disbanded at Donibristle in November 1943 after it had helped see off the mighty Bismarck in May 1941 http://web.archive.org/web/20051229094041/http://www.fleetairarmarchive.net/Squadrons/820.html Some Donibee stories: http://archive.is/20120719074004/http://www.bbc.co.uk/ww2peopleswar/stories/66/a3834966.shtml http://web.archive.org/web/20081117192019/http://mcglynnfamily.co.uk/page15.htm http://web.archive.org/web/20070314012218/http://www.bbc.co.uk/ww2peopleswar/stories/66/a4098666.shtml Eric Melrose Brown http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/editors-choice/2008/06/25/record-breaking-scots-pilot-honoured-as-one-of-world-s-greatest-aviator-86908-20619932/

Unmanned station at Hillend on the Aberdeen, Fife and Edinburgh route.

Opened in 1998 by ScotRail on the line from Inverkeithing to Dundee. View east towards Aberdour and Dundee.

On the edge of this new town. As well as the all weather pitch, not red blaes these days, there is a sports hall.