by Robin Thompson | 18 May 2019 | Uncategorized
Sunday 16th to Tuesday 18th June 2019 Full report, with photos, now available at “On a Wee Highland Daunder”. This year’s trip will be a two night visit to the Highlands, based at the Coylumbridge Hotel, near Aviemore. We will set off at 8:15 am from...
by Robin Thompson | 1 May 2019 | Uncategorized
Those who attended our April 2019 talk “Quite Happy – The Diary of James Fyffe, Cattle Dealer, 1836 – 1840” presented by Prof. Richard Oram, will remember that Richard pointed out that the diary itself is available on line from Abertay...
by Robin Thompson | 19 Apr 2019 | Diary, Talks
16th May 2019 Dunfermline Historical Society, 7:30pm Sam Foster, Dunfermline Town Planning Sam is an architect in Dunfermline specialising in contemporary ecological architecture. As a member of “Friends of Dunfermline” he is involved in work to regenerate...
by Robin Thompson | 9 Apr 2019 | Uncategorized
When writing the article about Mary Thomson and the Female Industrial School, a great deal of searching was done to try and find a photograph of Mary or some of her pupils but with no success. This photograph was found in the Journal Almanac 1913, a copy of which is...
by Robin Thompson | 27 Mar 2019 | Articles, Kirk Session
In the fifth of our series of Tales from the Kirk Session, Jean Barclay recounts the stories of two kirk elders from the 1720’s who each got into trouble themselves. One was dealt with swiftly by Robert Ferguson’s case was more complicated. The tale...