June Trip 2018, Report

On A Wee Borders Raid by Cherry Allan Day 1.  By the time I arrived at the Glen Car Park in the coolness of Sunday morning, 3rd June 2018, most of those people fortunate enough to be taking part in this ‘Wee Borders Raid’ were already on board our Bay Travel coach, 10...

April Trip 2018

Trip to Dundee – April 2018 By Pamela Macleod  It was a bit “dreich” when we set off from the Glen Car Park for our short journey to Dundee.  Fortunately, by the time we reached the Verdant Works, the weather had improved.  We were given a short introductory...

Victorian Homeware and Furniture Shopping

In this, the third of her articles on shopping, Sue Mowat gives us a vivid insight into the home lives of a wide range of our predecessors in the town, as well as a description of the many shops and businesses which catered for their increasing prosperity. Shopping...

May 2018 Meeting

17th May 2018 Our next meeting is the last of this current session. We meet, as usual, in the Abbey Church Halls at 7:30pm where Andy Paterson will present his highly recommended talk “Stars of the Silver Screen”. As this is the last meeting of the year,...

John Goodall and Co Motor Engineers

by George Beattie In 1868, at the age of seventeen years, Mr John White Goodall set up his horse and cab business in a single stall stable in what is now known as Commercial School Lane, off East Port, Dunfermline.  His assets at that time comprised one horse, one cab...