by Robin Thompson | 8 May 2020 | Articles
Back issues of local papers can give us all sorts of fascinating information about the past. When the article itself is about “Past Times”, we are shown even further back in time. George Robertson has found an article in a 1909 copy of “The Leven...
by Robin Thompson | 22 Apr 2020 | Articles
By Sue Mowat Among the papers in the Pittencrieff estate deed box in the Local Studies Library is a small notebook containing details of all the feus granted by the Hunts of Pittencrieff on their estate between 1800 and 1837. Most of the street and place names in the...
by Robin Thompson | 25 Mar 2020 | Articles
Hugh Elder and Son, Grain Merchant and Millers Queen Anne Street & City Mills, Inglis Street, Dunfermline by George Beattie David Elder, born in Dunfermline in 1806, the founder of the above firm, is described as being ‘a man of common stamp’. Apparently cast upon...
by Robin Thompson | 14 Mar 2020 | Diary, Talks
Dear Member, I am writing to you to inform you that, due to rapidly escalating health concerns relating to the spread of Coronavirus , the committee has decided to cancel all further meetings of the 2019/2020 session. We are sorry to have to make this decision but...
by Robin Thompson | 4 Mar 2020 | Articles
Tales from the Kirk Session by Dr. Jean Barclay One of the strange stories in the 18th century Kirk Session Minutes of Dunfermline is that of a Dunfermline widower and a married woman from Crieff. It demonstrates how different Kirk Sessions worked together. When a...
