by Robin Thompson | 2 Sep 2020 | Video Lectures
As the DHS is unable to hold meetings at present, we have decide to add a new feature to our website – links to videos of lectures on Scottish History. The first one is titled “The Empire Strikes Back : Antonine Scotland” presented by Historic...
by Robin Thompson | 4 Aug 2020 | Articles
David West & Son, Road Haulier of Rumblingwell and Touch. By George Beattie In 1920, David West, a former bus driver with the Autocar Bus Company (ABC), Dunfermline, founded his own road haulage business at James Street, Dunfermline before moving to Foundry...
by Robin Thompson | 4 Aug 2020 | Uncategorized
Dunfermline Historical Society July 2020 Greetings to all Dunfermline Historical Society members! July this year finds us all in a very odd place! I’m sure you would agree, since March, life has been very strange indeed! Hopefully all DHS members have been able to...
by Robin Thompson | 26 Jun 2020 | Articles
By Dr Jean Barclay My Edinburgh City Plan of 1978, like so many plans, maps and atlases, was created by John Bartholomew and Son, Ltd; a family company that loomed large in the business of map-making for some 160 years in the 19th and 20th centuries. The six...
by Robin Thompson | 30 May 2020 | Articles
Fraser & Carmichael Ltd, Grain-Millers, Wholesale & Retail Grocers Monastery Street, Maygate & Chalmers Street, Dunfermline by George Beattie Although the firm of Fraser & Carmichael was founded in Dunfermline in 1866, the family links to the...
