Thomas Blair – Cairneyhill People and History

Cairneyhill Properties

DUNFERMLINE SATURDAY PRESS, SATURDAY 15TH FEBRUARY 1862 Property in Cairneyhill for sale. Upset [minimum] price, £120. To be sold by public roup, within the chambers of Henry Bardner, Writer, Dunfermline, on Tuesday the 18th day of March 1862, at tow o’clock afternoon. That dwelling house, shop and garden, situated on the south side of theContinue reading “Cairneyhill Properties”

Market Garden for sale

COURIER AND ADVERTISER, DUNDEE, TUESDAY, APRIL 11, 1950 Market garden land and house for sale together or separately: (1) 4 acres (approximately) desirable market garden land at Cairneyhill with 2 sheds. Rent £3. Feu duty £4 4s 9d. Also modern dwelling house, Nashdome, Cairneyhill, containing 5 rooms, bathroom and scullery. Rent £16. No feu duty.Continue reading “Market Garden for sale”

Thomas Blair, Solicitor

[Edinburgh Evening News 15 May 1897] When the solicitors’ firm of Thomas Blair & son closed in Dunfermline in 2016, it was reported as one of the oldest Fife firms in existence, having started in 1840. The firm was started by a Cairneyhill man, Thomas Blair (pictured above) born in 1822 in Cairneyhill to AndrewContinue reading “Thomas Blair, Solicitor”