by Robin Thompson | 3 Sep 2016 | Articles
Here, George Beattie gives us another article in a series on Dunfermline’s Industrial Past, with the history of a firm which made and sold clay pipes for over eighty years in Dunfermline. William Richmond, Clay Pipe Manufacturer By George Beattie ...
by Robin Thompson | 16 Aug 2016 | Uncategorized
JOHN CRANE OF SALINE, 1942-2016 by Dr Jean Barclay When John Crane passed away in June after a three year battle with cancer the people of Saline recognised that they had lost a wonderful supporter of the local community but how many knew what a first-rate local...
by Robin Thompson | 4 Aug 2016 | Articles, Did You Know?
“PRISON – WHIT PRISON?” By George Robertson DID YOU KNOW…. that there was a prison in Dunfermline until 1950? Take a walk down Dunfermline High Street today and ask anyone where Dunfermline Prison was and it is almost certain, in the majority of...
by Robin Thompson | 17 Jul 2016 | Articles
Dunfermline’s Industrial Past H & J Philp, Joiners, Sawmillers and Builders by George Beattie This fascinating illustrated letterhead gives a vivid insight into one of the largest building and joinery firms in Dunfermline in the late 19th and early 20th...
by Robin Thompson | 4 Jul 2016 | Articles
by Dr. Jean Barclay DID YOU KNOW…. that Adam Smith is said to have shocked the good citizens of Dunfermline on the Sabbath? In his Annals of Dunfermline (1878) under the title ‘Adam Smith, the Kirkcaldy Philosopher, enters Dunfermline in...
