This week's Memory Lane feature comes from Jan Liddle, who was prompted to get in touch with her memories of the 1950s and 1960s after reading about a recent footballing milestone in the Press.

"I read with great interest your recent article about Caroline Weir receiving her 100th Scotland cap.

"I had known that Caroline hailed from Dunfermline but hadn’t realised that she had attended the same primary school as myself, Pittencrieff Primary. I was there 60 years ago and the article brought to mind a sad memory for me.

"I was an avid football fan in those days, often found on the terraces at East End Park. I enjoyed playing with the boys in the playground and going ‘down the park at Berrylaw’ with my Dad to play football; my Dad could have been a professional footballer, having been offered a contract by Middlesbrough in the late 1930s, but instead ending up in the Royal Navy fighting in the war effort.

"Imagine then my horror and humiliation when one day the headmaster (a tall man with a mop of curly black hair and thick black rimmed spectacles) came into my P7 class and asked who would like to be in the school football team.

"My hand shot up but was soon to be shot down as I was ridiculed: ‘Why do you have your hand up? Football is only for boys.'

"It’s a memory that has always stayed with me. I did eventually find an outlet with Fife Dynamites, and enjoyed my time with them.

"I also took up orienteering when a new club started up at my secondary school, Dunfermline High, and I did manage to be in articles and photos in your paper in the mid to late 1960s for orienteering successes.

"However, I was born too early to fulfil my professional footballing ambitions.

"I’ve attached a few photos from my primary school days. I was Jan Liddle in those days, and in the first photo (taken c1960) I’m fourth from the right in the front row, and the second photo was taken at Gala Day c1962 where I’m in the back row second from left.

"I’ve also attached a photo (1954) which I found in my sister Valerie’s photo collection when I went to visit her in Vancouver recently. She emigrated to Canada in 1966.

"She went to Queen Anne High School when it was based at Skibo Court, which is where I now live. She is second left in the second row, and amazingly has a record of most the names.

"I've also included an old photo (1957) of Valerie's Guide Troop. Valerie is front row, first on left. The Guide Leader was Miss Butler and I also joined the Troop at a later date. Miss Butler was still the Leader then and we were attached to Holy Trinity in East Port.

"Valerie performed with the Rosyth Dockyard Operatic Society in the late 50s and early 60s, and I have some nice photos taken in Carnegie Hall from those days."

Thanks to Jan for sharing her memories.