The photographs in this week’s trip down West Fife’s Memory Lane look at Dunfermline Athletic’s footballing past.
Coming up on Thursday 31st October in the Carnegie Hall is a ‘Football Comedy Night’ presented by former Pars manager Dick Campbell - and we've got tickets to be won in a competition.
A man of many clubs, he is best remembered for his time managing Dunfermline Athletic after he become Bert Paton's assistant.
Paton and Campbell guided Dunfermline to promotion in the 1995–96 Scottish First Division season, going on to an an impressive fifth place finish in the 1996–97 Scottish Premier Division season, with their team known for their adventurous attacking style of play.
Joining Dick as he takes to the stage with his hilarious stories and football anecdotes will be the very popular after dinner speaker George McNeill and the star of BBC Radio Scotland’s ‘Off the Ball’, Tam Cowan.
Our first photograph shows the Dunfermline Athletic 1968 Scottish Cup winning team celebrating their achievement in Dunfermline City Chambers.
The next image is of East End Park on Halbeath Road when the new stand was being constructed.
Veronica Baxter relates a story she remembers from that time: “My dad, the late Evan Parry (Evie), worked on this construction.
"Every time we passed it he'd tell me he built it single handed!
"It took me many years to realise this could not have been so – I think of this story every time I pass it!”
Graeme Young lived near the ground and also remembers that period: "The 1960s were a great time to support the Pars.
"Two Scottish Cup wins and some great European nights. I lived with my parents and sister in Gowanbrae Drive at the time - Jock Stein used to live round the corner from us when he was manager.”
John Wilson recalls a story surrounding some other work undertaken at East End Park: “I remember being down in one of the foundations when Jock Stein came down the ladder to chat.
"I told him to get out of the foundation and accompanied him up the ladder in time to see the 22 RB crane topple onto the south west corner of the pitch.
"The driver who we thought had suffered a heart attack was actually under the influence!”
Colin Lynch remembers some work he carried out at East End Park: “I installed the PA and music system in the whole stadium.
"Got a telling off for testing loud rock 'n roll music and not knowing a funeral service was being held in the graveyard! I worked for Andrew Thompson in Bonnar Street at the time.”
The final photograph is of members of the 1961 Scottish Cup winning team celebrating their win, again in Dunfermline City Chambers.
More photographs like these can be seen in Dunfermline Carnegie Library and Galleries as well as at facebook.com/olddunfermline.
Tickets for the ‘Football Comedy Night’, supported by Ian Brown Motor Engineers’ and with the Dunfermline Press as media partner, are £20 and on sale now from the Carnegie Hall box office on 01383 602302.
To enter a competition for a pair of tickets simply answer the following question - In what years did the Pars win the Scottish Cup?
Email the answer, as well as your name and contact telephone number, to editorial@dunfermlinepress.co.uk, with Football Comedy Night in the subject box, by 5pm on Wednesday 14th August.
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