History of Pitreavie (Part 3)
Pitreavie Primary School, which opened in 1969, is located within the Pitcorthie housing estate. There are 17 classrooms, a dual purpose hall, an ICT room, music/resources room, multi-purpose mobile classroom and office accommodation. The main entrance foyer is used as a reception and a display area for children's work.
To the south lies Pitreavie Business Park and Industrial Estate, with Carnegie Campus on the opposite side of Queensferry Road. Notable buildings include Caledonia House, prepared by Mercer Blaikie Architects in 1992, and Dunfermline's new £3.6 million Fire Station built by Hadden Group; it covers a mobilising area which includes 46,209 domestic and 2918 non-domestic properties. There is also a small wind farm here, originally developed in association with TechnipFMC.
When Queensferry Road was improved in 1917, Pitreavie Lodge was purchased and demolished at a cost of £750, to widen the road for the new tramway. Pitreavie Cottages (at 'The Entry') were demolished in recent times to make way for the Rosyth halt roundabout. In 1997, the £1.7 million Pitreavie link road was opened to link Pitreavie with the Eastern Expansion at Masterton.
On the east side of Queensferry Road is Pitreavie Playing Fields. The sports pavilion - built at a cost of £12,000 - was erected by the Carnegie Trust and opened on June 13, 1934, by Louise Carnegie. It was camouflaged during the Second World War, after which its clock tower was taken down.
Pitreavie Athletics Centre was first established as a simple cinder track in 1953 and officially opened in 1954 when the Scottish Schoolgirls’ Championships were held. It is home to a range of facilities and clubs.
Pitreavie Golf Club opened in 1922, and was designed by the internationally-renowned architect Dr. Alister MacKenzie (1870-1934) – most famous for designing one of the world’s finest courses at Augusta National in Georgia, home of the US Masters.
On the southern edges of Pitreavie you'll find the enigma that is the 1-mile long A823(M), one of the UK's shortest motorways. Opened in 1964, it is all that remains of a planned east-west Fife Motorway designated as M92, that would have run from the M876 at Kincardine to Glenrothes - hence the strange unfinished exits at either end of Pitreavie. A short westward extension to provide a bypass for Rosyth was contemplated in the early 1990s, but has yet to materialise.
Thanks to Alastair M. Redpath at Project Dunfermline for the information.
