Provost Moodie’s Little Troubles

DID YOU KNOW… About Provost Moodie’s Little Troubles? by Dr. Jean Barclay You`ll all know Moodie Street where Andrew Carnegie was born and where his Birthplace Museum now stands.  Called the New Road after it was opened in 1781, it was renamed Moodie...

The Black and Blue Rows

In this article Jean Barclay provides new evidence which appears to solve the problem of the location of the long demolished Blue Row. In the mid 19th Century the Red, Black and Blue Rows were a set of streets north of the Mill Dam, mostly inhabited by workers in the...

October 2017 Diary Dates

Carnegie Hall, Dunfermline Saturday 7th October                Sharron McColl                     The History of the Carnegie Hall At 2:30 pm.                                  Tickets £2. Inverkeithing Local History Society Meetings are held upstairs in the Townhouse,...

John Jackson, Coachbuilders

John Jackson and Sons, Coachbuilders Dunfermline’s Industrial Past By George Beattie John Jackson was born in the hamlet of Shiresmill, near Blairhall, Fife, in 1885.  He founded a firm which, for 70 years, built high quality vehicle bodies in Dunfermline. On...

October 2017 Meeting

19 October 2017 At this meeting George Robertson presented “The Lost Village of Lassodie”, the talk originally scheduled for next April, due to the unexpected unavailablity of our advertised speaker. We were delighted that George was able to present his...