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Gow Crescent, KIRKCALDY, KY1 1EY

This is a substantial stone-built house on the junction of St Brycedale Avenue and Gow Crescent. The house is currently operated as a Bed and Breakfast business. I am advised by the current owner that the house was built in about 1863 for the Hogarth family. They were flour millers, and had a mill nearby. It was probably lived in by at least two generations of the family. When built, the address of the house was 2, St Brycedale Avenue, and only more recently has it been give the address of 1, Gow Crescent.

Located in St Brycedale Avenue. Built 1902 as Burgh Buildings with bell tower, and Category B listed. The building underwent substantial internal alterations in 1997.

From outside the Adam Smith Theatre, left to right can be seen the spire of St Brycedale Church, the police station with its tower and the premises of Fife Centre for the Deaf. For a view in the opposite direction see this photograph Image

Bust of Kirkcaldy's most famous son, author of 'The Wealth Of Nations' and founder of the science of political economy.

Seen from the junction of Abbotshall Road and Bennochy Road the Adam Smith Theatre is on the right. Further up the road the former Station Court Nursing Home is undergoing major renovations (see this photo - Image )

The St Brycedale Avenue side of the Adam Smith Theatre is seen here from just outside the police station in St Brycedale Road. For a view in the opposite direction see this photograph Image

Situated in Bennochy Road opposite the war memorial gardens (from where this photograph was taken) and with the Adam Smith Theatre next door (just visible on the extreme right) This building was first opened in 1903 as the Station Hotel and operated as such until its closure in 1987. It reopened in 1989 as the Station Court Nursing Home which, in turn, closed in 2007 and the building has been vacant since but a planning application has recently been approved for the conversion of the building into 16 residential flats which will mean the welcome rejuvenation of what was a derelict, boarded-up eyesore.

A copper tower, described by Historic Scotland as follows; "CLOCKTOWER: 4-stage. Deep, rectangular, fluted 1st stage with 2-leaf door to N and cornice giving way to 2nd stage with deep plinth and engaged piers with tall urn-like finials to angles. Tall louvred 3rd stage with clock to each face and cornice above. Shallow plinth with finials to each angle giving way to tall fluted stage with ball finial below 7.5' weathervane (see Notes) of St Bryce with symbolic tree." Part of the Category B Listed Town House http://portal.historicenvironment.scot/designation/LB36387 Image

Seen from Station Road, the access road to Kirkcaldy Railway Station, the former Station Court Nursing Home is undergoing major renovations to turn it into 16 residential flats. See this photograph Image

Built 1909. One of several memorials in the town to eighteenth century economist and moral philosopher Adam Smith, who was born in Kirkcaldy.