by Robin Thompson | 24 Sep 2019 | Articles
Gray & Harrower Ltd, Grain Millers, Harriebrae Mill, Baldridgeburn, Dunfermline By George Beattie Harriebrae Mill was originally built as a spinning mill during the early part of the 19th century. By the 1840s the spinning industry was in decline locally and...
by Robin Thompson | 23 Sep 2019 | Articles
by Sue Mowat When a twelfth century Abbot of Dunfermline Abbey built his burgh of Dunfermline he included in his plans at least two water mills, powered by an elaborate system of leads (water channels). One of the Abbey’s mill sites was on the slope between the Abbey...
by Robin Thompson | 23 Sep 2019 | Articles
OLD WEAVERS AND OTHER OLD PEOPLE OF DUNFERMLINE, 1900-1915 – A LIST FOR THE FAMILY HISTORIAN. Compiled by Jean Barclay This is a list of the names, addresses and ages of the old men and women who attended the `old weavers` drive` each July from 1900-1915. They are...
by Robin Thompson | 23 Sep 2019 | Diary, Talks
17th October 2019 Ian Scott, “James Watt” 7:30 pm in the Abbey Church Halls, Dunfermline. 2019 is the 200th Anniversary of the death of James Watt, one of the most influential of the pioneering engineers of the industrial revolution. Those of you who were...
by Robin Thompson | 15 Aug 2019 | Visits
On a Wee Highland Daunder 16th-18th June, 2019 By Cherry Allan Day 1. 8.15am on this rather cool, dull summer morning found a group of DHS members, 26 in all, leave the Glen Car Park with driver Martin behind the wheel of our comfortable Bay Travel coach, and head...
