FAMILIES in one West Fife street were treated to a nostalgic trip down memory lane when an old works truck returned to its roots.

The M A Wilson and Sons eight-wheeler Foden truck stopped off at Robert Wilson Grove in Townhill at the spot occupied previously by its haulier depot.

As the Press reported last year, the icon of Dunfermline's past was brought back home after local businessman Anthony Mitchell and his son-in-law, David Blackburn, found the lorry languishing in Finland.

It made the 2,000-mile journey home from Finland through Germany, France and through England to Scotland last spring.

Bringing it back realised Anthony's 20-year restoration project dream after he had grown up watching the lorries, one of which his dad drove, pass through the village.

David, 30, said since they returned the lorry, they had always planned to come back to the old depot site where a housing development named after it now sits.

"I took it up to get a picture of it outside the old yard entrance and everyone came out to have a look," he said. "I have had it in storage and it's just going in my own yard now to be restored.

"I will have to try and source the parts. I have been in the trade for 15 years, I am a truck mechanic, so I know people who can get bits but it isn't going to be a two-minute job. It will take years. It is a labour of love and will definitely be back to basics."

The haulage company, ‘M A Wilson’, had its origins in 1929 when a Townhill woman named Mary-Anne Wilson, recently-widowed and a mother to three sons and three daughters, bought a second-hand Ford lorry and began a delivery business in the village and surrounding area.

The business came to be known affectionately in and around Townhill as ‘Ma Wilson’s’.

It went from strength to strength over the years with large contracts in the burgeoning mining industry in Fife among the reasons for its growth and success.