Step back in time with World War II military vehicles

By Kenny Smith | September 17, 2018

A World War 2 history festival event is being held later this month. Defend Fife is being run with the Scottish Military Vehicle Group and is a follow-up to last year’s successful World War 2 event centred in Dunfermline. The festival, which attracted around 2000 visitors last year, looks to draw 5000 people into Dunfermline…

Read More

Scottish and Japanese groups to stage an exhibition

By Kenny Smith | August 29, 2018

A cross-continental art show is set to open at a Scottish library. The multi-award winning Dunfermline Carnegie Library and Galleries continues its run of varied exhibitions and events with the opening of ‘Paper from across the sea: Washi Umi o Koete’, a stunning collection of original hand-made fine art prints. Running from 8 September to…

Read More

Burns centenary book located at charity sale

By Kenny Smith | August 14, 2018

A chance find at a charity book sale has been found to be a literary gem. Cassie Kennedy was attending the sale and knew she had stumbled upon something special when she uncovered a copy of The National Burns. After a bit of online research, she came to realise that the book is indeed historically…

Read More

Donations needed to save a Scottish relic from 1716

By Kenny Smith | July 26, 2018

The Scottish public is being urged to play its part to raise at least £3000 to save and restore an 18th century relic. On Saturday, 18 August, Dunfermline Carnegie Library and Galleries will reveal the unique and ancient carrying banner that marked the foundation of Dunfermline’s Ancient Society of Gardeners in 1716. The large banner…

Read More

How one Scottish town floored the world

By Kenny Smith | May 18, 2018

Scotland’s influence on the world is well known through the likes of John Logie Baird, John Loudon McAdam, Alexander Graham Bell and Alexander Fleming. With so many famous individuals, it’s sometimes easy to forget that an entire Scottish town had a dramatic effect of its own. BBC Two Scotland is screening a documentary this Monday,…

Read More

Facts at your fingertips with VIP programme

By Kenny Smith | April 30, 2018

Visitors to some of the country’s most popular historic attractions can now learn more about the local area while delving into Scotland’s past. As part of a new approach to visitor information, 66 Historic Scotland properties – managed by Historic Environment Scotland (HES) – which welcomed a total of almost 2,220,000 visitors last year, have…

Read More

Strutt & Parker launch two new properties to market

By Reporter | November 22, 2017

Property experts Strutt & Parker have launched two new homes to the Scottish market.  Benefiting from stunning scenery and tranquil surroundings,  both Nigg House and Dunfermline House would make the perfect family home.    Dunfermline House, Shore Road, Kingston, Morayshire – Offers Over £585,000 A stunning B listed traditional home with an abundance of period…

Read More

Glad we booked….

By Peter Ranscombe | June 9, 2011

Saturday May 21st…As revenge for dragging her to a Fleet Foxes concert Mrs A kindly took me to see Romeo & Juliet last night, a first class Danish production but the populus of Dunfermline must have different things to do on a Friday night. Cool but fair here today, horses working on the riverbank and the…

Read More