Profaning the Sabbath

In the first of our new series drawn from the Dunfermline Parish Records, “Tales from the Kirk Session”, Jean Barclay provides us with a detailed  insight into how people lived in Dunfermline in the Seventeenth Century, and how the Church sought to stop...

More on Mrs More

In  March 2016  we published a “Did You Know” about Mrs More’s Seminary for Young Ladies in Cairneyhill. Earlier this year, the author, Elaine Campbell received an email from a descendant of one of the pupils, containing further information about the...

Cleaning Up Victorian Dunfermline

by Sue Mowat Reminiscences and histories of nineteenth century Dunfermline present a rosy picture of steadily increasing improvement in all aspects of the town’s life, and in many respects this was true. However, contemporary records reveal a situation of widespread...

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...