REGARDING Cowdenbeath High Street!! Do the powers that be think that none of us notice how all the false promises have been made for a few years now and never fulfilled.

It really feels like the Council committees and Fife Council are actually purposely forgetting Cowdenbeath.

Let me start with (and not only my) passion, that is the Town House. I have suggested on many occasions, to provide an historical base for Cowdenbeath and the area.

As the Town House itself is a museum of the past with all its hidden mysteries and all involvement with providing jail, courts, male and female charge rooms, magistrate rooms, clerks rooms, a general office, committee rooms, late Burgh Court area and council chambers.

Even the supposed non existing basement which many were researching? To many it will be known as the Town House, or Town Hall. Or New Municipal Buildings.

The power and extra beauty was the very expensive outer stone of the building, seemingly the same as the original Beath High School in Stenhouse Street. Another part of history if interested, someone could chase. Then of course the subject of the town clock with its interior part of the building, along with various sounds/chimes over the years. This being renewed and updated just a few years back. All the extra building works, then all the the interior re-modernising coming shortly after.

So all we have to assume is that the council knew it was was worth doing to prolong our beautiful landmark. Beside all the beautiful and lavish furniture and paintings plus inside.

This is a great piece of land with a great presence about it that being our Town House. Remember too it is a listed building.

This piece of property is a pride that no man should have the power to take away from the people of Cowdenbeath.

But from what is happening, or not happening, it appears that we will all be told it has been sold (for the benefit of Cowdenbeath I am sure!) to prominent businessmen, who will convert it into flats, or demolished to make room for flats.

Strange thing is how the council cannot seem to reach the owners of other buildings , for example the Crown Hotel; and that awful derelict mess behind the McColls/Boots area, which could be utilised to make disabled persons' car parks, especially behind Boots.

It appears that blame seems to go back and forth. So do tell me who could be made responsible? Is a Compulsory Purchase not allowed these days or mandatory closure.

Or any legal procedure to enable those leaving buildings abandoned and distastefully mocking our town to be claimed by the council. Or is the problem that Fife Council do not intervene and leave it to a smaller committee. It seems to have got to the point that no one knows who is in charge of what. By the time they do it is sold, demolished or closed in some form.

But if sold what are the funds then used for?

Surely no one would contemplate the destruction of our Town House in any of these ways.

I wonder what the next announcement will be. History cannot be formed based on notice boards going up in the middle of a park, this is a slight to Cowdenbeath. Lochgelly and Kelty are getting on well with areas and historic projects and I warmly congratulate them. But come on folks why is Cowdenbeath being denied?

People know who strongly I feel about the Town House (look at my book 'The Enigma Of The Town House') via the National Library of Scotland.

This building has always been regarded as the 'Pride of of the Toon' along with special occasions of history involving Royalty.

There has been a lot of power exuded from the Town House at times, Why?

MAUREEN KENNEDY,

Thistle Street,

Cowdenbeath.