SPW027214 SCOTLAND (1929). Kirkcaldy, general view, showing Esplanade and Charlotte Street. An oblique aerial photograph taken facing north-west.

The first road from the left is Glasswork Street. The second is Charlotte Street which then crosses the (almost hidden) High Street and continues as Whytehouse Avenue. Prior to the introduction of steam power in 1807, Kirkcaldy had more than 2000 hand looms producing linen. In the bottom left, the wavy lines are linen whitening in the sun on the bleachfields of Volunteers Green. This green space is the remnant of an area, originally of 9 acres, gifted to the town by Charles I in 1644. The area to the bottom of the picture was radically altered in the early 1970s by the construction of the Mercat Shopping Centre, municipal swimming pool and multi-story car park.

I am fairly sure that the large brick chimney in the centre right was salt works.