by Robin Thompson | 2 Oct 2021 | Articles
The Dunfermline Historical Society recently received a portrait photograph of the Reverend Peter Chalmers, a minister of the Abbey Church, a local historian and an influential figure in Dunfermline life in the 19th Century. Jean Barclay has researched his life and in...
by Robin Thompson | 2 Oct 2021 | Talks
Inverkeithing Local History Group Sue Mowat, will present a talk on the Abbey Graveyard on Wednesday 13 October at 7.30pm in Inverkeithing parish church. Non-members £1. The church is the part-medieval one with a clock tower in Inverkeithing main street. It is the...
by Robin Thompson | 8 Oct 2020 | Articles
George Robertson (1835 to 1916), was a businessman and antiquarian who played an interesting part in the life of Victorian Dunfermline. As well as running a shop, he was an officer in the Dunfermline Rifle Volunteer Corps, contributed sketches to Henderson’s...
by Robin Thompson | 16 Oct 2019 | Articles
Many of you will have visited Abbotsford House near Melrose, extravagantly built and furnished by Sir Walter Scott. But did you know that much of the ancient wooden panelling was “salvaged” from the old Dunfermline Abbey Church, when the new church was...
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...