by Robin Thompson | 30 Sep 2017 | Diary
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,...
by Robin Thompson | 30 Sep 2017 | Articles
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...
by Robin Thompson | 22 Sep 2017 | Diary, Talks
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...
by Robin Thompson | 22 Sep 2017 | Talks
Prof. Sarah Pedersen of Robert Gordon’s University, Aberdeen, gave a fascinating talk on the history of the Suffragette movement in Scotland. She covered the development of the movement from the constitutional Suffragist organisation of Millicent Fawcett through the...
by Robin Thompson | 13 Sep 2017 | Articles
By George Robertson. Recently, whilst researching the history of Middlebank House near Dunfermline, I stumbled across details of the death of a Polish soldier named Jan Wagner. In 1945 he had been shot and killed while attempting to escape from Middlebank, officially...
