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...
by Robin Thompson | 17 May 2020 | Uncategorized
The DHS is a member of the British Association for Local History. They have recently published, for the first time, an e-newsletter and it’s full of links to talks and news. I have reproduced relevant parts of it here, but without the formatting colours and...
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...
