by Robin Thompson | 3 Dec 2023 | Articles
As many articles in our industrial and commercial series have shown, medium sized towns such as Dunfermline, supported all sorts of businesses and activities which have now long been centralised at a national or international level. To brewing, engineering, food...
by Robin Thompson | 9 Jun 2023 | Articles
Our seafaring ancestors had to deal with many hazards with little assistance, but they also came across some strange occurrences during their travels. In “The Jessie Thoms of Limekilns and the May Queen: A Seafaring Adventure” Jean Barclay tells us what...
by Robin Thompson | 16 May 2022 | Articles
In the third of his series on aerated water manufactures in Dunfermline, George Beattie presents the history of James Woodrow and Sons, the largest and longest lasting of the these businesses. For 100 years from 1908 this firm produced, bottled and distributed a wide...
by Robin Thompson | 9 Jan 2021 | Articles
George Robertson starts today a new series of articles on local history in which he features stories from “Reminiscences of Dunfermline – Sixty Years Ago”. This book by Alexander Stewart was published in 1886 and so these articles take us back in two...
by Robin Thompson | 27 Nov 2020 | Articles
William Stevenson & Sons, House Furnishers, Auctioneers and Removal Experts, is the next article in George Beattie’s series on Dunfermline’s Industrial and Commercial past. William Stevenson, worked at several trades before starting this successful...