THE exhibition to mark the 50th anniversary of the death of Joe Corrie had a massively successful launch on Friday night at Lochgelly Centre.

The aim of the project is to celebrate the work of the writer and playwright from Cardenden who had exerted a major influence on British and Scottish drama and literary culture and to re-acquaint a modern audience with Corrie's poems and songs.

Joe Corrie was a Cardenden miner whose plays, poems and songs captured the struggle of the local mining community of the 1920s and 1930s.

Joe's Bowhill Players were people who entertained in the mining communities and the modern Bowhill Players were set up by Lochgelly's Willie Hershaw who has been involved in organising the exhibition and the concert that launched it.

The modern Bowhill Players were to the fore at the Centre's Dance Studio event on Friday.

Willie Hershaw said: "We had a full house which was excellent.

"There were folk there from Tunbridge Wells and Inverness to see it, quite amazing."

The exhibition opened to the public on Tuesday, admission is free and and it runs for several months. The Sair Road book will be on sale at the Centre.