![]() Charles I was born there and the bed in which he was born is now part of a mantelpiece in nearby Broomhall, the home of the Earl and Countess of Elgin. It has a famous old abbey where the body of Robert the Bruce is buried, and a lovely palace, now in ruins, which was the home of the early kings of Scotland. ![]() Both the Queen when she married, and Princess Elizabeth, were given large chests of linen from Dunfermline. Up to the first world war it was the centre of the linen industry. Dunfermline is a small country town built on hills. ![]() I had finished my exams, and gone home to rest. Something else, however, was coming my way. I always had a great sense of vocation, and the feeling I had a job to do in life, and I had quite made up my mind that this was what my job was to be. I wanted to do something about the misery and unhappiness I saw all round me. I was at that time very young, and I became fired with a crusading spirit. Here I saw a great deal of poverty, and had to do with children who were not very bright because they were undernourished. ![]() I studied at the Moray House Training College in Edinburgh, and my training had taken me into the poorer parts of the city. My father died when I was a year old, and five years later-when I was six-my mother remarried and we came to live in Dunfermline. I was born on 5 June 1909, in the same house where my mother, and her father before her, had been born-Woodside Cottage, near Kilmarnock in Ayrshire. I had always wanted to teach, but I had certainly never intended to become a governess. ![]()
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