by Robin Thompson | 10 Jul 2024 | Visits
A visit to Thirlestane Castle- 6th June 2024 by Andreena MacDonald Our well disciplined members all arrived promptly at 9:45 at Leys Park Road Car Park. We boarded our exclusive executive coach on our leisurely journey to Lauderdale. I always enjoy a trip to the...
by Robin Thompson | 8 Jul 2019 | Articles
In “The Auld Weavers’ Drive” Jean Barclay tells us how the elderly, former handloom weavers of Dunfermline were treated to an annual outing. Hundreds of men and women were taken by fleets of horse drawn carriages for visits to “big...
by Robin Thompson | 15 Nov 2017 | Uncategorized
The new Heritage Centre in Aberdour will be open from 1 pm to 2 pm on Wednesdays and from 1 pm to 3 pm on Saturdays throughout the Winter. The Centre, situated in the Aberdour railway station buildings, opened in July this year and provides information on the many...
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...
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...
