by Robin Thompson | 6 Dec 2018 | Articles
James Stewart and Sons, Builders and Quarrymen Dunfermline’s Industrial Past by George Beattie Born in Falkland but brought up in Dunfermline, James Stewart served an apprenticeship as a stone-mason with a then noted country builder at Cowstrandburn, near...
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 | 28 Jan 2018 | Articles
Dunfermline’s Industrial Heritage Ralph W. Stewart & Co, Ltd., Scottish Central Rubber Works, Elgin Street, Dunfermline. by George Beattie In the late 1890’s, the linen industry in the Dunfermline was passing through a period of serious depression. Most of...
by Robin Thompson | 6 Nov 2017 | Articles
By George Beattie This business had its origins in Cowdenbeath where, in 1897, Mrs Janet Hill began a small hand-washing enterprise in Moss-side Road. A short time later, Mrs Hill was joined in the business by her husband, Charles Hill, with the enterprise then...
by Robin Thompson | 4 Oct 2017 | Articles, Did You Know?
In “Update on Dunfermline’s Coloured Rows”, Jean Barclay provides new evidence which appears to solve the problem of the location of the long demolished Blue Row. In the mid 19th Century the Red, Black and Blue Rows were a set of streets north of the...
