Aye Leven Lass I remember all the places same as you. I was a regular at Drennans every Saturday to spend my pocket money then my wages once I started working, the greatest record shop ever. If they didn't have it in stock they would order any record specially for you.

I think there was a garage with the name of Harris opposite Paterson's fruit shop on Commercial Road,
They had one of the few taxis in Leven when I was growing up.

Also there was a garage on Links Road near the rear of the old Beach Hotel, now the Festivel Gardens

Hutchison's Electric Shop is it gone ????

Buchanan the chemist was on the High Street

I believe there was a ice cream shop on Scoonie Road named Ferdinandi's or some similar name

Hutchison's is indeed gone.

Ferdinandi's is still there, and probably run by the same family as when you were last in it, Big Rab. In fact, until quite recently, they were still using the same till with the wee tabs with 6d and thruppence and the like.

Big Rab the garage you refer to on Links Road was part of the fiat garage on Scoonie Road - Links Garage.My Dad worked there for 35 years.

Durie the builder had a garage/yard at Whyterose Terrace. The roof was sloped and you could slide down it because the ASBESTOS became smooth and shiny. Thank goodness for H&S.
The back of the garage looked on to the back of Taylor St (drying greens)and when the grass got cut they would pile the cuttings up at the end of the garage so that you could jump/fall the 12-15ft into piles of grass.

Aye,that is him.

That is sad to hear!!!

He was a great old guy, I always remember going into Ferdies the night Italy won the World Cup and he was pished as a fart singing at the top of his voice shouting at everybody in Italian (good humouredly obviously) as his wife was trying to drag him through the back!!!

He was probably telling us to GIRUY!!!

BTW his name was Del Forno, The original Ferdies was way back in the 20's when the building was put up!!!

If you look up the side of it you can still see Ferdinandoes carved in the stonework up the corner of the wall, it was probably cheaper to nod your head when people called you Ferdie than to get it removed!!!

A bloody hell old Del has passed away?

Stotted in there many a time after a few beers in the Steppy.

Now no Steppy and no Del's.

No one has mentioned the best shop for eye candy that was CAPITAL FROZEN FOODS. Oohhh the young man in the navy coat who was in charge and his tall friend with slight gingery hair and claimed to be a goalkeeper on east fifes books who hung about the shop at dinner times jim i think was his name.
They had me and my class mates shaking with there tales of saturday nights at the beach hotel and the way i think one was called paul handled his frozen smoked sauceage oooooooooooooooh and teased us with his beef jerky they were the days we always hated having to jump back on the school bus to go back for afternoon periods.

By the way, Tinsoldier - nice try, but it doesn't really look like this thread is going to catch on.

When the Jubalee was being knocked down for the new road my pals and me snuck down the basement and found guns and grenades that had been left by the Poles during the war.

What aboot Thorrats auld post office & newsagent in Scoonie Road where I used to buy my copies of Oink! comic and scooter magazine.
Aw the scooter boys in the 1970's wi' their stripped doon Lambrettas there were loads of them.
Shorehead hippies, Harry the Bummer used to hang oot there at the shorehead toilets tae, if ye went in fur a pee he wid stand beside ye whistling and trying tae spy yer nob.
The tiny auld guy wi' long white hair that had the flashy motorbike wi' loads o' mirrors and crash bars.

And there was a tall guy fi' mountfluerie who cycled aboot on a racing bike wi' loads o' mirrors, panniers, cat's tails, horns and stuff like that. I still see him but no on his bike.
The Buckhind Billy Boys, when they came intae the Disco Royale me and ma pals were scared to look at them, they always wore Levi jackets and jeans.
The Young Broom Team.
Robertson's shop in Commercial Road where I used tae buy ma scud mags.
Scoonie auction rooms across fae the Den Inn, it's a car showroom now.
Dowie's auctions, now a gym.

I've actually got auld pictures of Norrie Parky's chip shop and Ferdinandi's. Norrie was a right character always farting and blaming it on the mice.

Here's some o' the 1970's scooter boys in no particular order : Zeke Ramsay, Jim Burns, Gordon Downs, Davy Galloway, Jed Livingstone, Ali Thomson, Gordon Moncrieff, Ron Smith, Alan Love, Jimmy Love, Tony Kwiatkoski, Dave Donald, Fergie frae Lergie, Mike Harrison, Mike Berry, Bert Allan, Drew McGovern, Bill Kidd and his brother (cannae mind his first name), Eric Culbert, Jeff Marven, Rab Scotland, George McCue anybody mind o' any mare?

Salmon Bothy
Daft George
Blunderbus (free bus for fathers to be to Craigtoun Park maternity hospital)
Getting yer post before 9 am not 9 pm.
Leven Y.M.C.A.
Postmen with longhair.
Being able to walk hame drunk on a Friday night without the fear of gettin yer head stoved in by a bunch of brainless 16 year olds.
Mountfleurie Neighbourhood Centre

Are you sure about that Livingstone bloke.???Thought he was a hippy,not a scooterboy.

Methilhill Ex-servicemens club, has that been mentioned yet?

This is the best AFTN thread ever, bar none


Talking about cyclists, does anyone mind of a scaffie around the early eighties who would cycle to work wearing his KDC uniform and a top hat?

Fred's Chinese next to Ferdinandi's at Scoonie.

Was licensed to close at 12 but you got in the side door (now a tattoo place) till about 3am. Got Sweet & Sour Pork (known as Pork Baws) or Sweet & Sour Chicken (known as Pork Baws - Chicken wans) then took it up the road and sat in bed eating them at 3am. Then slept fine and no repercussions. These days I have to stop eating about 8pm or my 'bowls' are knackered for days. Okay, too much info.

Btw, is Fred still there. He used to disappear for about 3 years at a time, then suddenly re-appear as if he'd never been away.

Steak pies at 4 AM at the back door of Deas the bakers bakery.

I remember that Jed Livingstone bloke, he had a cool scooter and really long hair. All the local chicks used to swarm roond him at the shorehead when he was hanging oot there.

I remember Eck Marvin he would go about on a scooter wearing his white crash helmet then go fishing on his boat still wearing it,He was also a dab hand on the pinball machine at Jonnies Bingo,sadly he passed away a few years ago.

I remember Eck Marvin, he was at school with me, he had a twin sister called Beth. I knew Eck had died, wonder where Beth is now? They were cousins of Jeff Marvin who was mentioned in the scooter boys post earlier today.

See in the East Fife Mail the Slipstream club is no more now too

Beth married actor Bill McCabe, who played Harry Murdoch in Garnock Way.
I knew Eck Marvin really well and his Dad Bert - me and Delivery driver used to go out fishing with them back in the 1970's.
Last saw Beth at Eck's funeral, which must be around ten years ago now!

Aye I think Fred still stays above the shop with his wife but the shops closed now I think. It used to be Norrie Parky's chip shop if I'm correct. Norries was great I used to frequent it in my youth, playing pinball and listening to "Black Night" by Deep Purple on the jukebox in his cafe. His ice cream was great along with his black pudding suppers.

Who can remember the sweets of the seventies my favs were Texan bars,M B bars and Tudor crisps they were canny.

I hope I am not the Robert you wanted to clip around the ear.

Anyway I didnae use Robert as a name when I lived in Leven I used a Nome-De- Plume.

Does anybody remember the Air Raid Shelter thas was in front of Leven Secondry Shool in Mitchell Street ????

I had a good education at that school did not realize
it until later on, as it has done me well in America.

What about all the level crossing gates?I will start with four.

1.Starkies Wood.Always used to be shut when I was late for Buckhaven H.S.

2. On the road between the Standing Stone road and Muiredge.The gate keeper had his own wee cottage right by the gates.

3. Coaltown of Wemyss by the Primary School.Gate still there I believe.

4. Station Road,Leven.Station gates.

I stayed in Buckhind right across from Kitty's shop. She made Kittys "specials"-ice blocks made in old plastic tubs with lollipop sticks in them.They cost half pence. She always asked us to bring back old sticks so she could reuse them. It didn't matter how dirty they were. I wasn't allowed to go in because it was a dirty shop, so my mum said. She used the same shovel to clear the ice from the freezer as she did to clean the dog "muck" from the pavement. I had to send my pals in for me.
If you managed to aquire a breadboard you didn't give it up they were like gold dust.
Cairns shop was round the corner.
What about the newt pond, well disappeared into the sea now.
The cheesecutter at the park at Factory Road. It was green, and the roundabout and the sandpit.I remember every Sunday night having a fine comb put through my hair my mum said she was looking for sand. Didn't matter how long I protested that I hadn't been near the sand pit.
The toilets at the school on the Globe Brae, wasnae allowed in there either told it was where the bad men were.
Anybody remember the tablet Murrays sold?

Jed the scooter boy is still gawn aboot, he was a postie for aboot 25 years and had the longest hair I've ever seen on a postie. Now it's shorter but he still dresses like a hippie type but withoot the flares. I think he's retired noo, lucky sod.

Does Kennoway count as Levenmouth? If so what about Kennoway Road Club, I spent many a happy time out cycling and racing with the boys from the club. AH those were the days. I still remember some of the members, Ron Munro, Colin Carmichael, Derek ?, Mike ?, Bob ?, Bill Mitchell, Gordon Fenton, Jed Livingstone, Eric Corstorphine, Sandy ?, and many more.

I think at one time there was a shop at the corner of Durward Stret and Waggon Road no ???????

There was a wee shop on the corner of Glebe St and Anderson St, it was No. 1 Glebe St but you're talking a long time ago maybe the 50's. The wifey used to serve folk out of her front window.

I remember the ladies shop in Commercial Road where the male assistant would try on the hats to show how you would look in them. It's now a travel agents. Also Magdalene's in Bridge Street, that's a house now. There was also a dress shop down one of the side streets off the High Street, can't remember name.

The "automatic" system in the Co-op which took your money to, and your change back from, the office.

Bike Boy, did you go to the Friday night youth club at the Hall of Culture then across to the church youth club where the disco was in a cupboard? Did you go o'er the Miggie Den when you were wee. Its just a couple o trees noo.I mind there was lots of playing fields outside the swing park. At the swing park the boy who did the gardens used to chase you if you went near his roses . One time the Boys Brigade were in a football match and one of their team got an own goal. It was hilarious cos they all chased the boy off the field and his mum was chasing them and shouting they were to leave her loddie alone. Think he came from Seaton Terrace. Do you mind Ian Methvens van and Brunton the butchers van and Andy the baker from the Store. I think it was Monday you got brown bread.

I can mind fire watching at the Mill when I stayed in Aitken Place. We used to get the older ones to cover for us so we could go to the dancing at The Jubilee or down the beach to the Go As You Please.

For those to young to know about the automatic change system in the Coop In the grocery dept. there was an overhead wire system where the clerk put your bill and money in a small container this was sent to the cashier cage and any change that was due was returned
the same way.
The clerk who waited on you had in a way no money to look after or give you your change if any.
At least that is the way I remember it.

White dog shite!!!

Brian L

The lines were part of the WPR connecting the Rosie, Wellesley,Lochhead,Muiredge, Pirnie,Cameron,Wellsgreen and Earlseat pits.The Pirnie was where B.H.S and the Council Parks Depot is now.

What about the original Bawbee Bridge.Far better to look at than the present one.

Does anyone remember the Hovercraft's on buckhind beach just in front of the braes, where the bandstand and pool used to be??????

Dave Marshall and Brian L -
I co-wrote (with the Fife Railway Preservation Society) a wee book on the Methil Branch Line about fifteen years ago that contains a sketch-map in the centrefold of the railway lines around the Methil & Wemyss area. Also contains sketch plans that I did of the stations from Methil up to Thornton and some good photos.
See me on Saturday or email me if you'd like a look at it.

The animal centres at Lethem Glen and Silverburn.

Remember there was a Highland Coo at Letham Glen in the field at the top and weren't there boar in an enclosure at one time accross from the deer?

Just to be the 200th post.The Sally Army coming round the pubs on a Saturday night with their mag.

A decient night life down the street on a Sat night.I can remember the days when you would go down there and not be afraid of getting the shit kicked out of you at cloasing time by a lot of little Herberts

Any one remember the ironmongers at methil brae johnny visochis i think it was called.And did Intersport have 2 shops 1 at muriedge and 1 at sandwell street im sure shug greer was manager at 1 time.

I remember the 2 hovercraft down Buckhynd. Must've been the early 70's. Hundreds of kids all clamouring to get inside. The braes used to be epi-centre of the universe back then. Men poking with cleets for crabs in the rocks when the tide was out. Kids bricking jellyfish and sometimes octupus trapped in the tide pools. Kids all used to have fires down the beach too and chucked asbestos slates and aerosols into the flames. Mind of a dead whale washed up on the beach too along at Wemyss. Seemed to be there for months but probably just a memory trick like summers that were never ending sunshine for weeks on end.

The Sporting Post..RIP.

The East Fife Mail in broadsheet

Mostly Methil stuff I remember from the 70's.

Ernie McGarr working in the pools office on Wellesley Road.

Co-op opposite Bayview Park.

Thomsons grocer shop near the pools office, Wellesley Road. ( had a cat with either 3 legs or 1 eye....cant remember which! )

Stuarts the Baker opposite Methil Bowling Club with wee booths for sitting in.

Donaldsons(?) Electrical shop on Wellesley Road near Bayview which sold records.

Visocchis shop Wellesley Road near Barrie st.

AB&B Fruit yard opposite Kirkland High school.

Anderson potato merchant, ( Tawtie Tams ) Wellesley Road and a petrol station across the road.

Gordon Allan (?) Butchers near dock gates.

Pennywise near foot of Methil Brae

Pik & Save near old dock gates

Fisher Joiners at end of McDonald st.

Barrons electrical shop foot of Fisher st.

Old Methil Police office on Fisher st.

Sailors Rest club, lower Methil.

Bakers on Fisher st next to Beatties newsagent.

A shark swimmin in Methil docks watched by East Fife players before we got knocked out the Spring Cup by Clydebank in 1976!

Athols Chippie on west high street, mmmmmm lashings of vinegar and chippie sauce on a fish supper. ..........

what about papa gallo best ice cream van ever

There was Ogilvie's and Allan's ship repairers in Lower Methil near the entrance to the docks.
The Men's Boarding House in lower Methil
Also the Methil Coop had a butchers and grocery store in Leven High Street, opposite Simpson's the butcher.
The bookie shop in Forth Street near the Baptist church hall.

I see into the future but will look back once,The Wonder Store

Big Rab, was the men's boarding house in lower Methil called Cairngreig Mansions?

It was commonly known as the " MODEL " you could reach it from Aberhill by coming down the steps to it
Also it was not to far from Cooper's the junk man's yard, which was also in Lower Methil
Sorry i have been gone too long to remember the street names I just know where it used to be.
An old guy who I worked with on the pit head at the Wellesley, he used to live at the " Model "

The street at the bottom of the steps is called Toboggan Road.

In unrelated matters, there was a toboggonist's shop in Leven High Street next to MacVities Guest. King Kebab knows all about it.

Always knew it as Murray's lodging house. When we were wee if any of the residents were hanging around the door we would walk on the other side of the road because the story was that they dragged youngsters in and they were never seen again.

They could have done us all a favour

Before it was Englands chippie down Lower Methil going back about 40 years sure it was corstophines now after a few pints that was a fish supper.
Showing my age again

I've been reliably informed Del from the chippy is still alive BTW

OOPS!! Glad to hear it.

The Model Lodging House, later to become the Wonder Store furniture dept., was indeed known as the 'Cairngreig Mansion' and, sad Anorak that I am, I can tell you the exact story behind the name.

Are you sitting comfortably? Then I'll begin . . . .

If you look on the opposite side of the road from the 'Model', you'll see there are three quite substantial stone built villas. Once upon a time, when there was little or no housing round about there, they were rather desireable places to live, and had nice views over the Forth. Proposals were then put forward to build a 'Model Lodging House' to accommodate the Navvies that were to be employed on the construction of the new docks.
The owners of the houses objected to the proposals, as they realised that not only was their view about to be blotted out, they would also have to put up with the drunken and rowdy behaviour from the navvies.
The objectors were Mr Cairns, Mr Greig, and the local minister who lived in the adjacent manse.
After a lengthy battle, the objection was eventually thrown out, and the builders of the Model lodging House cheekily named their new building the CAIRNGREIG MANSION after Mr Cairns, Mr Greig, and the Manse.

has any one seen ma wee coco with the powder on his nose l8tly miss him x x

What about the drinking wells that were down the beach.I bet if they were still there no one in their right mind would drink out them now

I spent a year working "down by" (as the Links Road garage was referred to) in the early eighties.

Third division football ,lets hope that stays in the bygone days

there was a an ironmongers in buckhind high street and along from that was Knox's and along at the end was the co-op

Anyone remember the dundee equitable at the bottom of fisher street for your baseball boots and across the road from it on the corner was a camping shop.

As well as the drinking wells there were big shelters, one was across the road from the festival gardens. I had a few snogs there when I was a teenager, those were the days. Also mind the shows on the prom with the Waltzers, Dodgems, Speedway with motorbikes and horses. I always used the motorbikes so I could be a rocker for 5 minutes, great fun.

Does the name Ray/Rey Nicol mean anything to anyone? married to Grace Nicol stayed in Robin Crescent and played dominoes mainly in the Buck n Hind before sadly passing in 92.

In the summer time weather permiting and at a high tide there were rides on a motor boat that usually went out as far as the bouy that was located about a mile offshore from the shorehead pier, and back cost was about 1/6 in them days.

Bob Jolly's the barbers in buckhind,now he gave you a good bowl cut,Birrells the barbers next to buckhind primary,mcclenan's the hair dressers up fae the sport shop.

You were physically assaulted during a "haircut" at Monty`s!!!

A Lucky Bag and a Pink Panther bar from Tammy tait's van on a friday night!!!

The big tree at Methil

King Kebab, Have you still got the Pink Panther wrapper? I sold a 1970's Freddo Bar wrapper on ebay a few weeks ago for £5.51, I'll give you a £1 for it, cash.

I used to get my Pink Panther bar on a Saturday night at a wee shop that used to be near the Medical Centre at Muiredge. Name of the shop, anyone

Charlie Niven's barbers shop in Wellesley Road. He used to be able to cut your hair wi a fag in his mouth that had 2" of ash and it never dropped!!
The Co-op grocery at Aberhill

Does anyone remember a guy who stayed in Taylor St Aberhill just before Janettas shop who moved house using his bike which I'm sure he balanced a wardrobe on. He also had the stair railings up to his flat 'decorated' with all sorts of sweetie papers crisp packets kids windmills etc. I was told he was a miner who had got a large payment for an accident but lived frugally shall we say.

See further up the thread, Stewart.

The garage on near the Festival Garrdens was owned by Nichol (spelling?)Near Ferdinandi's was Parkison's fish and chips too. Across from Parki's was Chalmer's wee shop (in the mid 50s) Thorat's had thw Newsagent/Post Office at The Glen. I delivered papers for them. What about Carmichael's at the end of Victoria Road. Brown's the chippies near the level crossing @ Wagon road. Just heard the Silver Tasse is now toast.

did anyone remembar the good old days at old bayview membar chink thay would call him jesus

we used to call him the dug man n rumour amongst the bairns was he actually ate his dogs,he moved from the house in methil to one in lundin links-which he paid for in cash shortly before he died.The Stuarts (tinks) are pictured in the book never to return by sandy reid-theres even pics ov the old wifie wi the pram!
A remember a visit to the arcade was like what it would be for a bairn to go too Disneyland noo!

What book is that Julie?

East Dock bar

The hoists at the docks

Purple Cat

Wizard Cleaners

Bayview Bar

Bennys cafe on Kirkland Walk for fags

Methil Primary School

The paddling pool at Byron Park

The chip shop behind Old Bayview

The power station in Methil.

Silverburn

Letham glen

Then there was Jeeks sweetie shop opposite the Innerleven Hotel and Moffats sweetie shop in Methil High St.

And steak pies from Gordon Allan the butcher. Never to be beaten.

its called never to return by sandy reid who was the old wife wi the fur coats sisters laddy.its a great but very sad read n talks about many local areas where the tinks camped,rthe sepentine in largo etc,n it has the most wonderful photies ov them wi the mum wi her pram n the guy wi the cowboy hat etc-takes ye right back!Leven library has a copy but its shut the noo

and what about the ice cream hut that was on the prom where ye could go n sit in n have a cone!
Also the Cleek in the golf vodca n coke for 50p
Coalmen getn the sacks filled up fae the lorry onto their backs-nae health n safety then!
playn chap door run fae one end ov casan tae the other
scabbie noarie-ye had ti sneak there tho cos we wer warned that a farmer with his horse n cart had tried to walk through it n wer never seen again cos it was bottomless!!! (Wooooo)

Rock at the Golf on a saturday afternoon( entry fee 50p)....and when a good band finished their set, the shout went up... 50p whoar's the band.

Last but least

Leven Junior Secondry School in Mitchel Street Leven

With teachers like Big Bob Armsrong, Miss Thomson,

Miss Whittet, Paddy Ireland, Jock Swinton and Hamilton

the Art teacher who always had a wee dram at lunch time.

Mr. Mackie the head master to name a few.

Just come across this twenty three years too late...Scabbie Nory and the bottomless swamp (is there really a tractor at the bottom?), The big pipe at the Dam, the tunnel in Starkie's Woods, The Floating head o' Buckhind, Big Johnnies Wee Johnnies, Drennans the record shop and The Auld Hoose on West High Street

You can leave Fife but it never leaves you.

I ask and I will ask again.."Did Woolworths at one time sell Bakery products?"

Also, who was in charge of the programme "bothy" on Kirkland Road?

wheres the tunnel at starkies woods like?

Does anybdy mind ov the hairy catterpillar at the braes n also the wee puppet show machine at Johnnies,5p n u were hypnotised wi the characters on strings

the eton fish & chippy

Etons, with Dirty John and Shiela.

Used to buy my 10 Benson n Sledges there before going to Disco Grim in the Institute.

Hing on a wee minute. Who was Jessie Miller?

WHO WIS .. eh?. . what dae ye mean WHO wis Jessie Miller . .. dae ye no mind o' the price on the sole o' ma shoe in the National??? Aye,you mind ya dirty wee bug*er!!
Aye, and ah mind o' you AND ye nivver payeed me fur the extras!!!

Old Ferdie is still living don't know where that rumour came from old man del forno is still spitting in the fat too see if its hot enough lol

Yes I remember D&E shoes in methil high street I actually worked there for a year, it was good shoes and very cheap.

It was called the farm chippy

Of course Zeke Ramsay had a Lambretta, it was a green and orange stripped down machine. As for Gordon Downs, yes he had a Lambretta too, he sold his to the longhaired guy Jed Livingstone.

Brian,phone us at 01333 420180, 68 High St Leven if you can find us.
And we will book you in for an appointment.
He aint had long hair for years and years and .....
MerviN

Yes, the smelly fox in the pen over the burn from the doos. And the baby goats eating the roses; thorns and all.

I REMEMBER THE MONKEY'S AND FOX IN THE BUCKIE HOUSE. TERRIBLE CONDITIONS WHEN YOU THINK BACK

What a great site and what memories. Thanks Jim for sending me the link. I think a lot of you are Balfour related the greatest company in the World I will never never forget the words of Major Mackie on our first day in the training room next to the iron bridge. He said "you are Balfour men and as such we are respected all over the world" and I can tell you he was right. Wha' like us gie few. Forget the aw deed bit.

Hey Balfourboy, who are you? I think I got the TV 175 from Eric or Ian Westwood, is that you? I don't have it anymore as when I moved from Rose Terrace to Glebe Street I had to sell five Lambrettas as I didn't have space to keep them all. I kept my own stripped down Lammy which I sold just 3 years ago to Dave Donald.

Ali Thomson did have a Lambretta stripped down before the chopper bike, once he passed his test he bought the chopper which was a BSA 650 if I remember correctly? Wish I had taken more photos back then!!!

Deadly what a cheek Westwoods!, I gave you one of the rarest Lambrettas made a series I TV Jed,
but their was a Li as well. I bought 3 Lambrettas from those two Pittenweem skin heads A&N Broons but only wanted the one a slime line Li Registration AXA1A and gave the others to you. Now you have ruined a friendship.

The Ariel Square four belonged to Andy Hutt who's dad owned Hutt's, the store that sold everything. I just checked your email and it is for Jim Burns, is it Mountfleurie JB? If so I tried to email you but they keep bouncing back, feel free to email me Jim and see what happens. As for you giving me a TV I really can't remember that at all!!!!! I met Bugsy about a year ago in Sainsburys it seems he's back here living in Buckhaven.

Well I never being, as a miserable scots bar steward I am devastated at the lock down on the memory. Deadly who has my series I TV? does this have the making of a Discovery history episode. ( hope it's better than the current fiasco with the Myanmar spitfires as a buff this story is driving me insane) Should I come back retrace my steps from the skin heads in Pittenween via Transit van to bygone Leven dropping of the contraband somewhere in the depths of god knows where. Only to find that this icon has been as scraped ? (after all what value had series 1in those days or now in fact ugly buggers )
Come Bert you have listed some of the usual culprits but think they might be a bit long in the tooth by then. Perhaps I should put a reward out for information received. Sadly from all those pics you sent me Jed what an abundance of TV fork's I can only surmise her fait has been sealed and you have not got the heart to tell me she has gone to The big Mod rally in the sky.

Come come now the greatest and only call to fame for bygone Leven in the late sixties and early seventies has to be the Osborne house and buchhaven dancing forget the rest. We can have some serious comments from these venues and era.

I am devastated at the lock down on memory. Who has my Series 1 TV. Should I come back and track it down like a discovery program Retracing my steps from the skin heads in Pittenween via Transit van thru the murky streets of old bygone Leven to god knows where. Jed from those pics you sent me all had TV forks and I can only remember a couple of Tv's in the area. Bert can you confirm the TV's were as scarce as hen teeth. I can only summize that you are scared to tell me she has gone to the big rally in the sky.

Trying to contact Gordon Allan the butcher
in Methil from a old friend and drinking partner
from the 1980's.Any info welcome.

Regards
Des Logan
Jersey

Ferdinandis is now run by the Del Fornos and has been since the mid 70's.

Did Geordie Rodger not have a fish and chip shop in aberhill...across the road from Pete Horne's post office and General Store

The pickled eggs are food of the Gods!!

Am surprised you can remember?

what about Maggie Murphy???I mind of that threat looming over us as kids if we wer misbehaving-did she no stay in kennoway supposedly?

Brought back a few memories of lower Methil - had a look on Google street view, and I'm amazed at how much it's changed. The Palace is gone (I remember going to see the Beatles "Help" there, and a James Bond film) and the old police station. New houses everywhere!

I thought I recalled a big set of wide steps going down to Lower Methil which I suppose must be the Waverley Steps from Whyte Rose Terrace to Toboggan Road, but they don't look like how I remembered them. Were there any other steps down to Lower Methil???

This might sound a bit outrageous, and please correct me if my memory is playing tricks on me,but I seem to recall Glenn Walker buying a round of drinks once,many many years ago.

Daft Davie sinagogas cinnamon sticks the man wi the toupee at the troxy. Mars man. The pak ho chicken marylands the beer lorry at the steelworks brae the bull Stottin oot the tassie. Getting the tawse The flounder pool The broom chippy Brian the starter at the municipal The dcl club The strippers at the beach hotel on a Sunday so I was told I moved to hawick 25 years ago and I have been back up to fife since but reading this has made me laugh out loud daft Davie especially I can see him clear as day pushing the barrow

Cracking picture on the Official Site...

https://twitter.com/EastFifeFC/status/469913045264007168/photo/1

Aah the memories, I think it was only there and the Den, where you were able to get a bottle of Big 'T'!!!

Or running into the wee lounge next door to get any results that were crucial in ragard to the East Fife game that had just finished, this was pre-smartphone and not everybody took their tranny!!!

Would love something like that again at Bayview, won the jackpot out that puggy once, £100 in 50 pences! Nip across to the bookies for a cheeky wee bet and the pre match banter was great, couldn't even get a sniff at a pint last Sunday, Jimmy's is too wee. Be braw to have a decent pub down there, burger and pint, bit of banter and maybe a wee bookies for a pre match flutter.

The wee guy with the shuffle that shouted "Eeeeevnin Paaaaaaapperss". Alec?

Anybody remember the radio-controlled airplane show that took place every Summer in King George V Park?

Also remember hippie / student types doing a 'summer mission' type getogether for the local weans every day for 2 weeks in the Summer - Mornings were held in King George V Park and the afternoons were held beside the paddling pool next to Pleasureland.

Other's - The Beach Disco with Stu Turpie DJing (Before he went to Bentley's)

The Pavillion Discos in the above mentioned park.

No that was Geordie (Dod) Gillies who ran the fish and chip shop in Paterson Street

It as Dod Gillies who had the fish and chip shop next door to the Leven Co-op run by Mr Webster in Paterson Street Aberhill, then there was Lightbody's the bakers and Elsie Davidsons on the corner of Taylor street

It was George (Dod) Gillies who had the fish and chip shop in Paterson Street. He lived above the shop. In the same block was the Leven Coop run by Bob Webster then Lightbodies the baker then on the corner Elsie Davidson had a wee shop. Opposite was Peter Horne's dairy which was previously a shoe repair shop - I think Mr Pye. The there was the Methil Coop butcher shop.

Can't believe it's taken me this long to visit this thread. It's a gem - pure dead brilliant. If you want an intimate archive of Levenmouth history, look no further!

Although I'm only a Sassenach incomer (since 1973), I can empathise with many of these posts, especially the one about the record shop in Leven which the old ladies ran. They knew far more about Jimi Hendrix than I ever did!

AFTN site administrator - for goodness sake get this thread archived for the local history society because once it's gone, it's lost forever.

MON THE FIFE (AND WOLVES)

Don't know if it's been mentioned in a previous post but does anyone remember the auld man's hut at Sandwell park,just down from the dressing rooms.