by Robin Thompson | 6 May 2016 | Articles
by Robin Thompson | 25 Apr 2016 | Did You Know?
Did You Know.. …that Dunfermline’s new Abbey Church was nearly built south, not east, of the old nave? In The New Abbey Church, Jean Barclay tells us how the church was very nearly built between the medieval nave and the fratery. Dunfermline would have looked...
by Robin Thompson | 18 Mar 2016 | Diary, Talks
Sharron McColl – ‘Louise Carnegie – the Woman behind Andrew Carnegie’ 21 April 2016 Many of us in Dunfermline know quite a lot about Andrew Carnegie, but how much do we know about his wife, Louise? She was an American, who first met Carnegie...
by Robin Thompson | 3 Mar 2016 | Articles
by Dr Jean Barclay No street or building in Dunfermline is named after Daniel Thomson but it does not take long for anyone involved with Dunfermline’s past to come across him. In his books The Weavers Craft and The Hammermen of Dunfermline, in his numerous articles...
by Robin Thompson | 28 Feb 2016 | Did You Know?
Did you know… ..that the Cairneyhill Manse was once a seminary for young ladies? Elaine Campbell tells the story of a notorious incident involving a local minister and the ladies of the seminary.