Other buildings to rise from the rubble of former Nairn lino factory

Kirkcaldy’s historic linoleum works could rise from the rubble elsewhere.

All that is left of the former A-listed Nairn building in Victoria Road is a massive pile of bricks after demolition got under way at the weekend.

Scottish Enterprise, who own the site, said some of the rubble would be crushed and used as back-fill and the rest would be recycled as building material for other projects.

Bulldozers got to work on Saturday, starting by tearing down the inside of the 130-year-old structure.

By the start of this week, only a mound of debris remained, some spilling on to the street, which was partially fenced off.

With traffic reduced to one lane, a contraflow was in place.

Before it was demolished, the Nairn building was the oldest surviving linoleum works in Scotland.

Built in 1882, the factory was once part of the town’s thriving lino industry and was in operation until 1984.

After lying derelict for three decades, however, the relic had fallen into a dangerous state of disrepair and Scottish Enterprise, which bought the building in 2001 with hopes of transforming it into a business centre, was unable to market it.