Some of the 1950s and 1960s staff
Frank Beattie (Linotype Operator)
Eddie (Linotype Operator)
Alan Kiddie (Compositor and Linotype Operator)
Tim Williamson (Linotype Operator)
Andy Cook (Linotype Operator)
Willie Smith (Compositor)
Robert McMahon (Compositor Apprentice)
Alan Gray (Compositor Apprentice)
Alex Hird (Printer)
Ian Yardley (Printer Apprentice)
Jim Anderson (Printer Apprentice)
Joe Taylor (Skilled Labourer)
Jock (Rotary Press, Printer)
Betty (Jobbing, Finisher)
Bob McDougal (Compositor Foreman, Jobbing)
David Doig (Compositor Foreman, Newspaper)
Ian C Paterson (Editor, Leven Mail)
Donald R P McIntosh (Works Manager/Executive Editor) smoked a pipe
Joan Miles – Office Manager
Albert Crichton (Editor, Fifeshire Advertiser) - Bertie or Bert
Jimmy McGregor (Chief Reporter)
Betty Carr (Reporter) - married Andrew Fyall in 1958
Andrew Fyall (Reporter)
Christine Shepherd (Reporter)
George Hume (Reporter)
Tom Mustard (Advertising Manger)
George Hume later wrote about his four training years (1956-1960) at the Fifeshire Advertiser in 'Voices of Scottish Journalists: Recollections of 22 Scottish Journalists of Their Life and Work'.
He said, "They (the Advertiser staff and management) really did help you along, instruct you, and so on. The place was full of good fun."
Andrew Fyall went on to work as a Foreign Correspondent with the Daily Express and recently wrote a book about his life as a Journalist - 'First In - Last Out'
