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Category: Fishing

A Walk Around Historic Dunbar Exhibition

August 2024 DDHS’s new exhibition – curated by Pauline Smeed – complements the 4th edition of Stephen Bunyan’s A Walk Around Historic…

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Published August 14, 2024
Categorised as Buildings, Fishing, From the Archives, Harbour, History, Place names

T Wilson Fish: Dunbar Benefactor and Historian

A Talk by Will Collin and Gordon Easingwood The February 2024 DDHS talk was on the little known T Wilson Fish, who…

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Published February 21, 2024
Categorised as Buildings, Churches, Fishing, From the Archives, History, Past Talks

DDHS activities 2022-2023

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…

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Published May 14, 2023
Categorised as Buildings, Fishing, From the Archives

The Building and Opening of Dunbar Harbour Bridge in the Early 1860s

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

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Published April 14, 2023
Categorised as Buildings, Fishing, History, Hospitals

Fisher Lassies

Fishing family sorting fishing lines at Dunbar harbour

This month, we are going back to Dunbar harbour in the early 20th century. We do not have exact dates for these…

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Published April 1, 2018
Categorised as Fishing, From the Archives

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