Found photo: This old photo is of "Dockyard Houses" in Selvage Place, Rosyth, the first address my parents had when they moved west from Cellardyke in the 1950s. We lived at No. 10 which is pretty much in the middle of the picture. This photo looks to have been taken some time in the 1930s, before WWII.
By the time I lived there most of those fences were gone, replaced by privet hedges. These homes were about 40 years old then and in need of upgrading. The houses were pretty basic, a coal fire, no proper heating, no hot water system, jammed windows, ill fitting doors, only basic sanitation and primitive electrical wiring ... I could go on.
One plus point was we had a garden. Nothing special but it was a grassy, private piece of outdoors to play in. As you'd expect and nothing to do with the place, I've not set foot in this street for years. At the time nobody knew any better and just put up with things, after all it was the place we called "home".
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