234 – 242 High Street, Kirkcaldy, Fife
The 145th Woolworths store opened in Kirkcaldy in Scotland. There are no photos of it on the internet at all, but we can guess from the photo of the building today, that it had a makeover in the 1950s/60s, being extended to become a huge store.
The store closed down on 28th June 1986.
In the 1990, a Woolworths Music and Video store opened at 148 High Street (Store 1168) and then in the late 1990s, a traditional Woolworths returned to Kirkcaldy at the Mercat Shopping Centre on the High Street (Store 1201).
Today the building of the original store at 234 – 242 High Street houses the Kirkcaldy Indoor Market, which gives an idea of the size of the Woolworths store that was. The Woolworths does are still in use after all these years.
Source: Flickr
And what is exciting is that an original mosaic Woolworths floor still exists in front of the fire doors at the far right of the building.
If you do have any photos of any of the Kirkcaldy Woolworths store, please do send them in, it would be great to see how they looked.
Woolies Buildings - Then and Now 
there are photos of Kirkcaldy Woolworths
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On Saturday 12th March 2022, I was on the Esplanade, and took three photos of the back of this store. It had a rear entrance as a Woolworths, still in use today as Kirkcaldy Indoor Market. The flooring in the market, and the rear entrance, still has the 1970s orange tiled floor! But perhaps most interesting, is that the local electricity board built a sub station into the back of the building when it was Woolworths. The signs have been replaced, most recently mid 1990s, and the details on the Scottish Power signs, give an emergency number, and calls the sub station “WOOLWORTHS”! I can supply you with the photos if you wish!
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Hopefully this link works, a photo of it, from ether the 1960s or 1970s.
https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=702952776426552&set=gm.417806408357465
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The present occupier of this building, Kirkcaldy Indoor Market, will close on 30th December 2023. The future of this building is then unknown. It’s worth saying, I’ve been in and took a few photos for a Woolworths Facebook group, for posterity.
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