Courtesy of Scottish Screen Archive

A local topical made for Lochgelly cinema proprietor Tommy Timmons, member of the organising committee for the village's annual OAP's excursion. The film would be shown at Tommy's cinema a few days after the event. The old folk are filmed as they walk past the camera to board the buses, the women, dressed to the nines, followed by their menfolk, looking as if they have stepped straight out of the pages of comic strip 'The Broons'. Those were the days when grannies looked and dressed like grannnies. Few have a full set of teeth - it being some twenty years before the introduction of state health service and not all working-class people could afford false teeth.

Janet McBain

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