Kirkcaldy - "Linktown Old Men's Club", Buchanan Street at the Esplanade (1956)
*The watermark is for internet copyright purposes only and will not appear on the purchased printCalled "Old Men's Shelter" by the artist. This did not give me any idea of location until May Stokes of Kirkcaldy kindly informed me that it was located at the foot of Buchanan Street tenements (now Buchanan Court) and just behind the old Philp building. An old RIBA photograph - discovered purely by chance - from 1954 shows that it was actually called "Linktown Old Men's Club". This was used by people in the tightknit community of the Links area to congregate and pass some time together while enjoying a view of the Forth. Everybody knew everybody else. May Stokes remembers going with her grandfather to these gatherings.