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High Street, COWDENBEATH, KY4 9QY

This building erected in 1891 was built by the Cowdenbeath Co-Operative Society butt is now the High Street Presence of the local constablary.

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 — 2018 Livingston have picked up, now promoted to the top division of the Scottish Football League again.

The shopping street looking north. Once a mining town.

A memorial to the eight miners who lost their lives in the Donibristle Colliery Disaster on 26th August 1901.

The High Street in Cowdenbeath on a sunny Sunday afternoon.

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.

Scotrail Class 158 train number 158739 has just left Platform 2 where a service from Edinburgh Waverley terminated. It is crossing to the other track by means of a set of points.

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.

View NNW, Station being on right: ex-NBR Dunfermline - Thornton Junction line, formerly junction of line to Kinross and Perth (closed 4/1/70, which used to be the main line Edinburgh - Perth. The service now runs Edinburgh - Dunfermline - Cowdenbeath - Markinch, Thornton Junction station being substituted by the new station at Glenrothes (for Thornton) opened 11/5/92.

Scottish League Division 2, Cowdenbeath 1 Stenhousemuir 1, Attendance 455 This is one of the most unusual Scottish football grounds, due it being ringed by a stock car race track. The novelty of that might have made up for being a bit further away from the action, but the presence of a very high wire fence, to avoid the spectators later on being decapitated by flying wheels and bumpers, doesn't really add to the viewing experience. Cowdenbeath are regularly one of the worst teams in Scotland, and this year is proving no exception. After this game they were eight points adrift at the foot of Scotland's bottom (fourth-tier) league. It is hard to see them not being involved in the relegation / promotion play-off at the end of this season. There are two non-league leagues in Tier 5 : the Lowland League and the Highland League. The winners of these leagues have a two-legged playoff to earn the right for another two-legged playoff with the Football League's bottom club. On today's showing, a demotion for Cowdenbeath would be no great loss to football as a whole.