by Robin Thompson | 3 Jan 2022 | Video Lectures
The latest Video Lecture from Markinch is this Thursday, and will only be available then. Ian Archibald gave an excellent presentation to Dunfermline Historical Society, in 2016, on a similar topic “Shipwrecks of the Forth” so this should be a good video...
by Robin Thompson | 19 Dec 2021 | Articles
What Dunfermline Would Have Been (And May Become) Without Damask By Dr Jean Barclay The material for this item comes from an article entitled `Dunfermline and the damask trade` from The Weekly News of Saturday, November 4th, 1865, which was included in the Folio of...
by Robin Thompson | 19 Dec 2021 | Video Lectures
We have been sent the latest e-newsletter from the British Association for Local History. It contains links to several on line talks and an invitation to take part in their new Local History Photographer of the Year competition. Please click the link below to read it....
by Robin Thompson | 8 Nov 2021 | Articles
Gilbert Rae’s Aereated Water Works Baldridge Works, Golfdrum Street, Dunfermline by George Beattie Gilbert Rae Gilbert Rae was born in 1841, at Marchwell Farm, Rullion Green, near Penicuik. He was the son of James Rae, who was then a tenant farmer, and his wife...
by Robin Thompson | 27 Oct 2021 | Articles
In the next of his articles based on Alexander Stewart’s “Reminiscences of Dunfermline – Sixty Years Ago”, George Robertson FSA Scot describes the provision of pharmacy and medical care available in Dunfermline in the early years of the 19th...
