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 May 2020 | Articles
Back issues of local papers can give us all sorts of fascinating information about the past. When the article itself is about “Past Times”, we are shown even further back in time. George Robertson has found an article in a 1909 copy of “The Leven...
by Robin Thompson | 8 Jul 2019 | Articles
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 houses” around Fife. This fascinating article gives...
by Robin Thompson | 4 Oct 2017 | Articles
In this article 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 Mill Dam, mostly inhabited by workers in 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...
