Day 3 Dunfermline and Lochgelly

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We awoke refreshed on a rather cool Sunday morning and made our way up to Dunfermline Abbey and the Palace complex. We secured a car park near the children’s playground and walked to the Andrew Carnegie statue and then up High Street to the Abbey. It was a Sunday morning and there was a church service in the Abbey so visit to Robert the Bruce’s grave on this trip. We then visited Andrew Carnegie’s birth house and museum and left with a good sense of his upbringing and early experiences to be able to understand why he was so successful and At the same time benevolent. A couple of things we learned that stood out - his first ever investment was in a start up company which couriered documents and parcels on the new railway networks of which he was employed as a telegraph operator at the time. The company was called Railway Express and it is known today as American Express. The Parker Brothers game ”Monopoly” was invented in 1935 as a protest against Carnegie and John D Rockefeller.

After Dunfermline, we headed to Lochgelly and spent the rest of the day with Eleanor and Ricky catching up with all the latest news of family members now spread far and wide around Scotland (and Belfast). Much of Lochgelly is still recognisable from 20 years ago but there does appear to be new housing developments popping up here and there. We visited the Lochgelly Cemetery and attempted to drill two small holes in the family headstone to install a plaque dedicated to Andres’s grandfather who is buried there however the solid granite headstone was formidable so we decided that a diamond drill should be sourced the next day to complete the job. In the evening, Ricky and Eleanor took us out to dinner at a restaurant in Dunfermline, a place where Andrew’s mother had frequented many times during her last trip to Scotland.

After dinner, we returned to Lochgelly

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Photos

Dunfermline Palace
Tish with the ruin of Dunfermline Pakace where King Charles was born

Dunfermline Abbey
Stain Glass Window in the old part of the Abbey

Dunfermline Abbey
“Robert the Bruce” on top of Dunfermline Abbey

Andrew Carnegie Museum
Tish outside of the Andrew Carnegie Museum

Comments

[Judy Pople]

You Guys I love you
Love Love

[Maureen]

How well we remember visiting Lochgelly and glad that you are catching up with family.