As the Mary Campbell Smith poem goes,” For I ken mysel’ by the queer-like smell, That the next stop’s Kircaddy!”
The Fife town was once famed for it’s linoleum production – and the accompanying aroma.
One of the biggest manufacturers was Nairn’s – which still operates in the town as Forbo-Nairn.
In recent years there was a campaign to save the firm’s former factory on Victoria Road, which had lain empty for 30 years, but this ultimately failed and the wrecking balls moved in in 2014.
When Sir Michael Barker Nairn died, the government agreed not to take death duties on his German investments.
