Where Was I? Days.

Ah! Yes... 

The Old Western Cinema Where I used To Go With My Brothers Every Sat Morning Matinee.

a musical or dramatic performance or social or public event held in the daytime and especially the afternoon The Saturday matinee was so crowded that we had to sit in the second row. Or in the Balcony Seats Lol.

Located in Methil, Fifeshire. The Denbeath Theatre of Varieties was opened in 1907 as a 1,300-seat variety theatre. The small entrance is in a pre-existing building, with the auditorium laying parallel to the road, behind existing buildings. It was re-named Gaiety Theatre in 1914. It had a 25 feet wide proscenium and two dressing rooms

It was taken over by an independent operator around 1929 and was equipped with a Western Electric(WE) sound system, the owners being so proud of their new equipment that they re-named the cinema the Western Theatre.

In the mid-1950’s it was equipped for CinemaScope and the proscenium was widened to 38 feet. The Western Theatre was closed as a cinema in 1978.

It became a nightclub named Rick’s, and operated as Maxwell’s bar in 2013. By 2018 it was known as The Venue. The original interior decoration has been gutted out.

There was Also another Cinema Along The Road a Bit Called The Imperial Cinema it was Renamed The Gala Theatre For Bingo Enthusiasts Then was made way for Housing.

Many a great Time as Usual...Gone!

Anstruther

My Brothers and I Used To Go Down to the Shore at Dinner time From School And Spend our money at The Fish and Chip Shop and Get our 1p Single Cigarette at the local Shop lol. Cigarettes in those days were cheap and nasty. Always got a Park Drive Cigarette. hehehe. 

Old Anstruther Harbour.

North Carr is the last remaining Scottish lightship. She is 101 feet (31 m) in length, 25 feet (7.6 m) in beam and 268 tons.

The purpose of the vessel was to warn mariners by sight, light or sound of the dangers of the North Carr rocks which are situated 1.7 miles off Fife Ness at the turning point for vessels sailing between the Forth and the Tay. The North Carr is currently berthed in the Victoria Dock, Dundee, awaiting restoration as an exhibition space.

She was built by A. & J. Inglis Ltd, (part of Harland and Wolff) for the Northern Lighthouse Board for £15,000 at Pointhouse Shipyard, Glasgow in 1932 and completed on 27 February 1933. In service she was anchored off Fife Ness until 1975. From then she served as a tourist attraction in Anstruther harbour. She is the third and last vessel to carry the name - the first was borrowed from Trinity House London, the English counterpart of Northern Lighthouse Board. The second was purpose built in Dundee, reported to have sat so low in the water that her decks were always awash and the only way up to the light was up a rope ladder in the rigging - no mean feat at the best of times.

She created quite a stir in Edinburgh on account of her fog horn being tested while lying at ¾ mile outside Granton in the Firth of Forth. As the fog horn had a range of approximately 10 miles, north Edinburgh could hear it loud and clear and the complaints to the office,[clarification needed] newspapers and police were numerous - particularly as it was being sounded in clear weather. "Hundreds of city dwellers have had no sleep over three consecutive nights"; "The most flagrant individual breach of the peace is as nothing compared with the ceaseless boom and consequent suffering of the past three nights"; "Firth of Forth torment"; "An Edinburgh grievance which has left rankling memories in the selection of Granton for the fog horn test" were typical of statements made and written at the time.

On 8 December 1959, the lightship was the subject of a tragic rescue mission. After the lightship broke her moorings and began to drift in heavy seas, the Broughty Ferry lifeboat (The Mona) was launched. Her crew of eight was lost when the lifeboat capsized. The lightship and its crew survived and after repair was towed back to its station.

The lightship was used as a museum in Anstruther for years after she left service. She was purchased from a scrapyard in 2010 for £1 and funds were sought by the charity Tay Maritime Action (Taymara) to restore her as an exhibition space on the Dundee waterfront. However, due to a lack of funding, the lightship is yet to receive the new lick of paint or restoration she needs. She is currently docked in the West Victoria Dock near to HMS Unicorn.

And Also There Were Shows That Came Every Year.

I Remember My First Girlfriend I Had at School (Waid Academy) Joan Blackwood Was Her Name. Who Lived at Lochty Farm Near Anstruther.

And The Song I still Remember Is This One By The Kinks

To Be Continued