by Robin Thompson | 22 May 2018 | Articles
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...
by Robin Thompson | 21 Mar 2018 | Articles
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...
by Robin Thompson | 4 Mar 2018 | Articles
In the second of her articles on shopping in Victorian times, Sue Mowat describes the wide range of tailors, milliners, boot-makers and others trading in Dunfermline in the 1860s. Shopping for Clothes in Victorian Dunfermline By Sue Mowat Setting out to buy clothes in...
by Robin Thompson | 6 Jun 2017 | Articles
The Chequered History of Dunfermline’s Cokete Seal by Dr. Jean Barclay Much interest was aroused among antiquarians, patriots, politicians and others when Dunfermline`s medieval cokete seal – or rather the matrices that created it – came up for sale in 2014,...
