Lighting Dunfermline

Lighting up Dunfermline and Public Announcements. Reminiscences of Dunfermline by George Robertson, FSAScot. Once again we turn to Alexander Stewart’s Reminiscences of Dunfermline, this time for information on the early lighting system in Dunfermline and also on how...

The Tradesmen’s Library

The History of the Tradesmen’s Library By George Robertson, FSAScot. The Library which exists today in Dunfermline is well known and looked upon with much pride by those who frequent it, whether that be when carrying out family or local research, visiting the...

Dunfermline’s Post Office

By George Robertson In 1886, Alexander Stewart published his book “Reminiscences of Dunfermline – Sixty Years Ago”, which contains a selection of fifty-six stories concerning people and events in Dunfermline.  In his Prefatory Note to the book, Stewart remarks “no...