Dunfermline

BOOK DUNFERMLINE HOTELS

Rather interesting Dunfermline facts

Click for places to stay in Dunfermline | Today's best rates | Send in your views of Dunfermline | Read visitor reports

Did you know that the first Carnegie Library was opened in Dunfermline in August 1883? Millionaire-philanthropist Andre Carnegie emigrated to the USA from that town as a child. His foundation went on to fund 2509 libraries around the world, most in the USA and Britain, but some in places as far flung as Serbia and Fiji.

If you like this, Share it

Famous Dunfermline people:

Andrew Carnegie
Charles I
David II of Scotland
Dorothy Dunnett
Iain Menzies Banks
James I of Scotland
Joseph Paton
Kenneth Macmillan
Kenneth MacMillan
Peter Mitchell

More famous Britons here

Brit Quote:
Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed. - William Blake
More Quotes

On this day:
Battle of the Boyne - 1690, First Day of the Somme - 1916, Disaster at Chilwell Shell Plant - 1918, Oxfam Opens its First Charity Shop - 1948, Wade wins Jubilee Wimbledon - 1977, Britain hands back Hong Kong to China - 1997, Smoking Ban in England - 2007
More dates from British history

click here to view all the British counties

County Pages