Reminiscences of Dunfermline – Pharmacy

In the next of his articles based on Alexander Stewart’s “Reminiscences of Dunfermline – Sixty Years Ago”, George Robertson describes the provision of pharmacy and medical care available in Dunfermline in the early years of the 19th Century. As...

Keeping Dunfermline Safe from Cholera

In the latest of her articles on life in the 19th Century, “Cleaning Up Victorian Dunfermline”, Sue Mowat describes the truly filthy condition of the town in the 1850’s and pulls from the archives the story of how the authorities tried to prevent the...