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...
by Robin Thompson | 4 Mar 2020 | Diary, Talks
19th March 2020 at 7:30pm Unfortunately, due to the coronavirus outbreak, this meeting has been cancelled. We will invite Dr Cook to visit us and present her talk at a future meeting. Dr. Margaret Cook will present “History Meets Fiction in Border...
by Robin Thompson | 16 Feb 2020 | Articles
By Sue Mowat “I remember when all this was all fields”. So many Dunfermline people must have said that, as the town expanded throughout the centuries after King David I granted his tiny burgh to the Abbey in 1124, shortly after he came to the throne. The full story of...
