Kirkcaldy Swimming Pool: photos showing it empty and its 2018 demolition

The bulldozers moved in back in 2018 – six years on, the gap site remains undeveloped, and only partially hidden by grey boarding.

There is no doubt the old pool was well beyond its use-by date, but the former owners of the Mercat Shopping Centre – which bought it for £1 –pledged it wouldn’t become a white elephant.

All that remains is the walkway which connects the shopping centre with the multi-storey car park, which offers views down on the empty land.

These pictures recall the demolition, and what it looked like after the last swimmers departed and the doors were locked.