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Tour
Carnegie Birthplace, Dunfermline
Situated
near the centre of Dunfermline in West Fife at 2 Moodie Street
is an 18th-century pantiled weaver's cottage where Andrew
Carnegie the industrialist and benefactor was born in 1835. Now
a museum, it was extended in 1925 with the construction of the
adjacent Memorial Building designed by James Shearer.
Of the £70 million Carnegie gave to charity about £1 million came
to benefit Dunfermline where the Carnegie Dunfermline Trust is
based. Gifts to the town included the Carnegie Centre, the Carnegie
Free Library, the Carnegie Hall and Pittencrieff Park.
If
you would like to visit this area as part of a highly personalized
small group tour of my native Scotland please e-mail me:
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