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Billy's collection

Highlights from his album

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Two decades before anyone else thought of the idea, a very well-known Lochgelly man started collecting old photographs of the town and surrounding villages and farms. Here we publish a selection of images from the treasured album of the late Billy Richardson
 
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Billy Richardson leads a "turn-out" up Auchterderran Road

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Welcome to Glencraig - if you can beat the flood

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Minto House (later Lochview Hotel) which stood to the south of The Avenue

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A typical scene at Loch Gellie in days gone bye

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Another photo of the loch with the fallen tree and boathouse still intact

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Believe it or not the entrance to the Cinema-de-Luxe, now FFDR, was built in this gap

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Original owner Joe Timmons outside the Cinema which opened in 1912

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This part of Main Street now houses a supermarket and Lochgelly Post Office

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Paton & Turpie's van was once a familiar sight in the area

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The gateway to The Beeches has long since changed dramatically

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Richmond Close looking up between Broadways and the Opera House to Macainsh Church

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A magnificent photo of McGregor Avenue in the heyday of the prefabs

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Melville Street - once the backbone of the Happyland

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Looking down Hall Street towards the Happyland and public park

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Looking up Francis Street towards Knockhill Close and Bank Street


Lochgelly is the original Happyland