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Dunglass: Snapshots in Time – a talk by Dr Pat Simpson

Dunglass Collegiate Chapel

The November 2023 talk was given by DDHS member Dr Pat Simpson and entitled Dunglass: Snapshots in Time. Pat has kindly sent 3…

1893 Ordnance Survey extract

Our first talk of the new season in September was very successful as we had an excellent talk on maps of Dunbar…

Postcard for the hotel

August 2023 Jim Herring did some research in the National Library of Scotland on The Roxburghe Marine Hotel, later the Roxburghe Hotel.…

G Low lorry outside the assembly rooms

July 2023 This month we are going to look at some new photos (donated by Pam Murray neé Low) relating to her…

Smith the Bakers in the High Street

June 2023 This month, we are going to look at some of the boards displayed in the new DDHS exhibition in the…

Rival bike shop to Melville's

May 2023 This month, we are going to look at some more adverts from Picturesque Dunbar, the tourist brochures sold in Dunbar in…

Fisherman's Monument at the Old Harbour

April 2023 This month, we are going to look at some slides from Pauline’s Smeed’s presentation at the AGM, in which she…

March 2023 At the AGM on 11 April, Jim Herring gave a short presentation on the original Dunbar Harbour bridge, which was…

February 2023 This month we will be looking at some slides from a DDHS talk by place-name expert Liz Curtis. Liz studied…

January 2023 The Society was recently given two tourist brochures from the early 1900s. We found a similar one in the archives…