by Robin Thompson | 25 Mar 2020 | Articles
Hugh Elder and Son, Grain Merchant and Millers Queen Anne Street & City Mills, Inglis Street, Dunfermline by George Beattie David Elder, born in Dunfermline in 1806, the founder of the above firm, is described as being ‘a man of common stamp’. Apparently cast upon...
by Robin Thompson | 15 Jan 2020 | Articles
by George Beattie Around 1843, Messrs Ralph Walker and David Wilson opened a bleach works on the banks of the Lyne Burn at Touch. Within a decade of opening the field, Mr Walker and Mr Wilson dissolved the partnership. Mr Walker established the Elgin Bleachfield on...
by Robin Thompson | 23 Nov 2019 | Articles
Dunfermline’s Industrial Past. This series shows how in the 19th and early 20th Centuries, Dunfermline, like many towns of a similar size, had manufacturing businesses of all types to support the local economy. The Lindsay business produced a wide range of...
by Robin Thompson | 24 Sep 2019 | Articles
Gray & Harrower Ltd, Grain Millers, Harriebrae Mill, Baldridgeburn, Dunfermline By George Beattie Harriebrae Mill was originally built as a spinning mill during the early part of the 19th century. By the 1840s the spinning industry was in decline locally and...
by Robin Thompson | 23 Sep 2019 | Articles
by Sue Mowat When a twelfth century Abbot of Dunfermline Abbey built his burgh of Dunfermline he included in his plans at least two water mills, powered by an elaborate system of leads (water channels). One of the Abbey’s mill sites was on the slope between the Abbey...
