THE photographs in this week's trip down West Fife's Memory Lane revisit the famous Scottish Cup win in April 1968 by Dunfermline Athletic.

The first photograph shows the victorious team parading through the streets of Dunfermline with the cup on an open-topped bus in front of the huge numbers of people who turned out for the occasion.

The cup run started on Saturday, January 27, 1968, with a magnificent 2-0 win, with goals from Hugh Robertson and Pat Gardner, over the reigning European Cup-holders Celtic at Parkhead, who were managed at that time by the legendary Jock Stein. Stein had managed Dunfermline between 1960 and 1964 before later taking up the reins at Celtic, and had led the Pars to their first ever Scottish Cup win in 1961.

After defeating Aberdeen and Partick Thistle in the earlier rounds, Dunfermline went on to beat Hearts in the 1968 final 3-1, with a goal from Ian Lister and a brace from Pat Gardner.

The second image shows some of the players and manager at the celebratory civic reception that was given in the team's honour in the town's City Chambers. Ian Lister is on the left of the photograph and Pat Gardner is on the right. In the centre are the club captain, Roy Barry, and the manager George Farm, renowned for his always immaculate appearance and dress sense.

Farm had an illustrious playing career as a goalkeeper prior to becoming manager of Dunfermline, and made more than 500 appearances for Blackpool during their golden decade of the 1950s, including one of the most famous FA Cup finals, the 'Stanley Mathews final' in 1953, when Blackpool came from 3-1 behind to beat an injury-ravaged Bolton 4-3.

In Farm's time at Dunfermline, in addition to winning the Scottish Cup, he guided the team to the semi-finals of the 1969 UEFA Cup Winners’ Cup, defeating Apoel Olympiacos and West Bromwich Albion en route to the semi-final of the competition which they lost by one goal on aggregate to eventual winners Slovan Bratislava (Slovan beat Barcelona in the final).

In the 1968/69 season, Dunfermline also finished third in the Scottish league behind Celtic and Rangers. This is the greatest achievement in Dunfermline’s history, surpassing even that of Jock Stein’s time at the club (with the only other major trophy victory in Dunfermline’s history, Stein also took the Pars to the Scottish Cup but never progressed with them beyond the last eight in European competition).

The final photograph shows Pat Gardner relaxing at the civic reception with his wife and perhaps telling her the story of the two goals he had scored in the final.

More photographs like these can be seen in Dunfermline Carnegie Library and Galleries when it re-opens to the public, and also at facebook.com/olddunfermline. 'Old Dunfermline' DVDs are available online from olddunfermline.com/shop.