by Robin Thompson | 21 Apr 2017 | Diary, Talks
Our next meeting is the 2016/17 AGM. It will take place on Thursday 18th May, at 7:30 pm in the Abbey Church Hall, Abbey Park Place, Dunfermline, and will be followed by “Thirty Years of Fife Constabulary” by George Beattie. George is an old friend of the...
by Robin Thompson | 15 Apr 2017 | Did You Know?
DID YOU KNOW… …the story that Ralph Erskine’s mother “died” before he was born? The Rev. Ralph Erskine was a seccessionist minister in Dunfermline in the early 18th Century, and his statue stands outside the former church in Pilmuir Street. There is...
by Robin Thompson | 17 Mar 2017 | Talks
We meet in the Abbey Church Hall, Abbey Park Place, Dunfermline, at 7:30 pm, on the third Thursday of each month, from September to May. The December meeting is a Christmas celebration for members only, but visitors are very welcome at all other meetings. There is a...
by Robin Thompson | 17 Mar 2017 | Diary, Talks
Our next meeting will take place on Thursday 20 April, at 7:30 pm in the Abbey Church Hall, Abbey Park Place, Dunfermline. Morna Fleming will speak on “Robert Henryson, Dunfermline’s Medieval Poet”. Dr Fleming first developed her interest in Scottish...
by Robin Thompson | 14 Mar 2017 | Articles
Our series on Dunfermline’s industrial past continues with an article by George Beattie on the history of Michael Tod and Sons Ltd., Engineers. This firm traded from 1872 to 1960 and was an international supplier of mechanical engineering equipment to the mining...