On January 9th 1736 Andrew Wilson, a baker, from Pathhead, and incorrigible smuggler, tried to rob John Stark, the collector of excise in...

Kirkcaldy 777 years ago, on Tuesday, March the 21st 1245, the Bishop of St Andrews, David de Bernham, 'maximus episcopus Scotorum'...

William Williamson, one of the most notable architects from Fife, and one of the most accomplished of his generation, was born at a house...

Valentine Rose - Vettriano Flowers and Fruit with a Japanese...

An exciting new social and industrial history project has just been launched by OnFife. Flooring the World – Exploring the Fife Linoleum...

The 1863 book, ‘Historical Sketches of Pathhead and Vicinity’ by Robert Brodie, contains what may be one of the earliest documented...

The Edinburgh-based Robert Rowand Anderson (1834 - 1921) was generally regarded as the pre-eminent man in Scottish architecture during...

Three of the finest late-Victorian villas in Kirkcaldy are conveniently grouped together near the roundabout on Bennochy Road where it...

On 25 January 1956 one of the architects who helped to shape Kirkcaldy in the Edwardian era, JD (John Daniel) Swanston, died aged 88 at...

Our story on Law’s Close published earlier this month brought some interesting information from the other side of the world. In fact, it...

Very few Kirkcaldy people now will have heard of Dr John Smith of Brycehall, a man who practised medicine in Kirkcaldy with great...

When the research has been completed, the narrative written, the end result added to the website and the computer lid closed – that...