9 Union Street

For over a hundred years this house was a licensed grocer’s shop. From the late 1960s until it closed in the mid-1980s it was occupied by William Findlay. Children were fascinated by the rustic spiral staircase in the corner of the shop, leading to who knew where! Findlay’s first shop was further along the street in the old Royal Buildings. Prior to Mr Findlay, for almost fifty years, the shop-keeper here was Alexander Young. Until fairly recently it was possible to make out traces of the inscription YOUNG’S High Class Provisions painted in huge white letters on the high gable end of the building looking towards Cupar Road.