by Robin Thompson | 6 May 2016 | Articles
A Tale of Two Houses Dunfermline Historical Society Spring trip, Saturday 23 April 2016 by Lindsey Fowell For our Spring day outing, Society members headed South over the River Forth on a chilly Saturday morning to visit one of Scotland’s finest stately homes,...
by Robin Thompson | 25 Apr 2016 | Articles
by Dr. Jean Barclay DID YOU KNOW… Dunfermline’s new Abbey Church was nearly built south, not east, of the old nave? Until the later 16th century, Dunfermline’s fine abbey church (built in the 12th -13th century) consisted of a conventual...
by Robin Thompson | 18 Mar 2016 | Diary, Talks
Sharron McColl – ‘Louise Carnegie – the Woman behind Andrew Carnegie’ 21 April 2016 Many of us in Dunfermline know quite a lot about Andrew Carnegie, but how much do we know about his wife, Louise? She was an American, who first met Carnegie...
by Robin Thompson | 3 Mar 2016 | Articles
Daniel Thomson, A Man of many Parts by Dr Jean Barclay No street or building in Dunfermline is named after Daniel Thomson but it does not take long for anyone involved with Dunfermline’s past to come across him. In his books The Weavers Craft and The Hammermen...
by Robin Thompson | 28 Feb 2016 | Did You Know?
Did you know… ..that the Manse in Cairneyhill was once a Seminary for Young Ladies? by Elaine Campbell Mrs More was the wife of the Rev John More and they ran a residential school in the Cairneyhill Manse from the 1830’s until the 1860’s....
