FIFE FAMILY HISTORY SOCIETY
"OLD KENNOWAY, STAR AND WINDYGATES"
Picture and text reproduced by kind permission of
Stenlake Publishing
Station Road, Windygates
The line of children standing in the middle of the
road in this 1909 picture contrasts sharply with the same view in
more recent times. The Cross at Windygates became East Fife's most
notorious bottleneck, and by the 1960's peak time traffic was
gridlocked beyond the edges of the village in every direction, as it
inched it's way to the lights. After a long campaign, the first
section of the village bypass, to the Standing Stone Road, was
completed in 1987. The rooftop of one of the Cameron Bridge bonded
warehouses, demolished in the early 1980's, can be glimpsed on the
right.
(Text by Eric Eunson)