by Robin Thompson | 31 Jan 2018 | Articles, Did You Know?
Did you know.. …about the ‘Pernicious Society of Dunfermline Wheepmen? By Dr. Jean Barclay In May 1735 Bailly John Lindsay, maltster of Dunfermline, was a worried man. As First Baillie of the Town Council he deputised for the Provost, the Marques...
by Robin Thompson | 28 Jan 2018 | Articles
Dunfermline’s Industrial Heritage Ralph W. Stewart & Co, Ltd., Scottish Central Rubber Works, Elgin Street, Dunfermline. by George Beattie In the late 1890’s, the linen industry in the Dunfermline was passing through a period of serious depression. Most of...
by Robin Thompson | 20 Jan 2018 | Talks
15th February 2018 The DHS Annual General Meeting will take place this year at 7:30 pm, in the Abbey Church Hall and will be immediately followed by – “Women Pilots of World War II”, given by Roy Johnstone. Roy has been fascinated by history all his...
by Robin Thompson | 2 Jan 2018 | Articles
Shopping for Food and Drink in Victorian Dunfermline By Sue Mowat How different, how very different, was shopping in Dunfermline a century and a half ago! In 1861 there were more than 70 shops in the High Street alone – grocers, greengrocers, bakers, tobacconists,...
by Robin Thompson | 15 Dec 2017 | Diary, Talks
Thursday 18th January “Pictish Settlement, East Lomond Hill” Oliver O’Grady and Joe Fitzpatrick Anyone who watched “Digging for Britain” will have seen a little of this archaeological dig in the 6th December...
