Away From The Numbers
All good things come to an end. Or so they say. AFTN has been around since 1989, first as a fanzine and then making the jump to a website and forum in 2003. We've been through the many ups and down at East Fife in those 12 years but policing the forum has become a giant pain in the ass in recent years. As such, we made the decision not to renew it when it expired.
The forum is no more and will remain as a locked archive until it is eventually deleted by the host. We're looking in to try to save some of the content as an archive.
This is not the end of AFTN though. The site will continue and will be revamped and return in its full glory for the start of the 2016/17 season. Maybe even sooner. There will be a comment sections and possibly even a new, registered forum. Check our Twitter (@aftnwebsite) for all the latest info and we'll also post in on the EFFC memories Facebook page.
Until then, have a last browse here, thanks for all your support over the years, and 'Mon the Fife.
GoF
I thought peter pan aka coco and his bbc crew had stopped drinking in this country and were frequently in europe on cheap flights with there brand of ahem drunk fun
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. 
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
OOPS!! Glad to hear it.
In unrelated matters, there was a toboggonist's shop in Leven High Street next to MacVities Guest. King Kebab knows all about it.
Is that the one that had a minky in the winday???
I think, in dominoes, they call it chapping.
Please note this is intended as a wee light-hearted comment and not meant to be disrespectful in any way. If it doesn't come across in the right way, I'm happy for it to be deleted.
What about Montgomerys at the dock gates that was an apache not a barbers
Ferdies is still there. Unfortunately the owner has just passed away.
Who's being telling porkies or did I see a ghost tonight
Ferdies is still there. Unfortunately the owner has just passed away.
Who's being telling porkies or did I see a ghost tonight
Brian, I was badly misinformed!! I plan to purchase a bag of chips to show there was no malice intended...then again maybe not!!!
A Lucky Bag and a Pink Panther bar from Tammy tait's van on a friday night!!!
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
See further up the thread, Stewart.
Cannae see it?
Posts on Feb 27 at 6:04pm and Feb 28 at 9:22am are two that mention the guy.
Showing my age again
The National bar lower methil, next to the chippie. As young boys our friday nights started there before a good night down the high street. We never did meet the so called lady of the night.
the eton fish & chippy 
WHAT???
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
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.
And steak pies from Gordon Allan the butcher. Never to be beaten.
Have been doing some family tree research and this came up on a google search. Gordon Allan was my great grandfather and lovely to see his shop remembered.
And steak pies from Gordon Allan the butcher. Never to be beaten.
Have been doing some family tree research and this came up on a google search. Gordon Allan was my great grandfather and lovely to see his shop remembered.
My late father-in-law Bob Hunter worked at Gordon Allan's as a message boy during the war, then served his apprenticeship there. He used to tell me about how butchers back in those days knew how to set out their window display, something he always said was lacking in later years. One of his favourite stories was how on a Saturday afternoon there seemed to be an abundance of sausages to sell before the shop closed, and they had to be sold as the shop would obviously be closed on the Sunday. Gordon Allan put a notice in the window to say the sausages had been reduced to clear - and the result was that nobody wanted to buy them as they suspected there was something up with the sausages (which there wasn't, he simply had a surplus!).
With time running out before the shop closed, Gordon simply changed the sign from "Reduced to Clear" to "Special Recipe" . . and cleared the lot!!
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
I remember swinging on the ropes that hung from the hoists! playing in the old power station. Swimming in the docks from the age of 7 ish.
. Mucking about on the coal wagons. Went to lower Methil primary school until the age of 9 ish. Enjoyed the pet shop seeing Snowy the parroit. Can't remember the palace when it was a cinema but remember it being a bingo! Few names from lower Methil durie st area i remember, the Cunninghams, the Taylors 'young Robert RIP was only 7', Staffords, Broons to name but a few.
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.
