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Site of Cowdenbeath Old Station
View NE, towards Lochgelly and Thornton Junction. This station, located on an earlier course of the line from Dunfermline to Thornton Junction skirting Cowdenbeath to the south, was closed back in March 1919 but the line remained in use until 1/1/68.
Image: © Ben Brooksbank
Taken: 22 Jun 1988
0.07 miles
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Police Office in former Co-Op
This building erected in 1891 was built by the Cowdenbeath Co-Operative Society butt is now the High Street Presence of the local constablary.
Image: © Steve Barnes
Taken: 13 Sep 2013
0.13 miles
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Donibristle Colliery Disaster Memorial
A memorial to the eight miners who lost their lives in the Donibristle Colliery Disaster on 26th August 1901.
Image: © Craig J Seath
Taken: 13 Aug 2005
0.18 miles
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Downtown Cowdenbeath.
The shopping street looking north. Once a mining town.
Image: © Richard Webb
Taken: 24 Aug 2005
0.18 miles
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Inside Central Park
Taken on the last day of the 1982-83 Div 2 season. Cowdenbeath v Meadowbank Thistle, the Ferranti Thistle incarnation of the day, they now play, badly, in Livingston. The Blue Brazil are in err, Blue.
A 0-0 draw, the two promotion places having been settled, it was a dead rubber, Thistle were up starting a long period of success, eventually playing in Europe. Cowdenbeath stayed put, both geographically and in the league. The stock car circuit can be clearly
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2018
Livingston have picked up, now promoted to the top division of the Scottish Football League again.
Image: © Richard Webb
Taken: Unknown
0.18 miles
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Cowdenbeath
This is the entrance to Thistle industrial estate in Church Street. The site was previously occupied by the Central Workshops who provided engineering services to the many pits in the Fife coalfield.
Image: © Paul McIlroy
Taken: 26 Jun 2007
0.18 miles
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Cowdenbeath High Street
The High Street in Cowdenbeath on a sunny Sunday afternoon.
Image: © Colin Kinnear
Taken: 22 Aug 2010
0.19 miles
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Wooden garages
A row of wooden garages in Thistle Street in the east end of Cowdenbeath
Image: © James Allan
Taken: 24 Mar 2006
0.21 miles
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Central Park, Cowdenbeath
Central Park has been the home of Cowdenbeath Football Club since 1917. However, since 1970 the ground has also been a stock car racing venue.
Image: © Euan Nelson
Taken: 5 Oct 2014
0.21 miles
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Central Park, Cowdenbeath
Stock car circuit and home of Cowdenbeath Football Club. Match vrs Meadowbank Thistle (aka Livingston) at the end of the 1982-83 season.
Image: © Richard Webb
Taken: 8 May 1983
0.23 miles