In this week’s trip down West Fife’s Memory Lane we look at some old images of Pittencrieff Park. The first photograph shows gardeners working in front of the wooden conservatories (the present conservatories that we know today were built in 1973) that housed tropical plants. In former times this area was known as ‘The Laird s Garden’ as it was a kitchen garden and orchard providing fruit and vegetables for the nearby Pittencrieff House, which was erected around 1610 by Sir Alexander Clerk. An early mention of the Pittencrieff estate is as far back as 1291 when the proprietor of Pittencrieff, William de Oberwill, ‘granted a charter to the Abbot and Convent of Dunfermline bestowing on them the privilege of working one coal-pit, wherever they chose, on any part of his property except the land which was arable’.