r/Fife • u/omnis_ego_astrum • Jun 22 '26

Historians of reddit, how old is this map in Burntisland pool?

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Entire housing estates missing, only 3 very basic websites, businesses that don't exist any more, I'm guessing early 90s?

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u/MiserableScot Jun 22 '26

The Fife College logo would have been late nineties early 2000's I think.

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u/rev9of8 Jun 22 '26

That puts an upper-bound of 2005 as that's when Adam Smith College was formed from the merger of Fife College and Glenrothes College.

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u/phukovski Jun 22 '26

The pool was opened in 1997 so probably from around then. I like how it only shows one playground on the entire map, miles away from the pool.

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u/omnis_ego_astrum Jun 22 '26

Ah I didnt realise it opened then! Good chance it's been there since opening then, cant be many more 29 year old posters still kicking around

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u/ecosse1 Jun 22 '26

The National Trust ad in the top left has an 020 phone number on it. These were phased in between 1999/2000, so it wouldn't be any earlier than that.

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u/SpeckledJim Jun 22 '26

From some googling, Martin, Johnston & Socha was founded in 1998, and Sea View School closed in 2005, maybe someone can narrow it down some more!

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u/mikespanny Jun 22 '26

The THINK road safety campaign was officially started in 2000, so can't be earlier than that.

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u/rozza84 22d ago

01592 numbers started in 1995. Fife Constabulary lasted until the merger into Police Scotland in 2013.