The first talk of the new DDHS season was given by Society Treasurer Alasdair Swan and he sent this summary of his…
Category: From the Archives
In this section, the Society will provide its members and others interested in Dunbar’s history with examples from the resources held in the Society’s room in the Town House. If you are interested in these resources and would like to see similar resources, please contact the Society. In our collection, we have a range of local history books, pamphlets relating to Dunbar e.g. tourist brochures, old maps of Dunbar, and a wide range of photographs of Dunbar, dating back to the 19th century.
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…
Bands Who Played at the Victoria Ballroom in 1966
July 2024 The Victoria Ballroom (Photo) was converted in the early 1960s from being the gymnasium for the Castlepark Barracks into a…
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…
East Barns: Celebration and Reference and Barneyhill employees
Two recent donations to DDHS from members Andrew and Margaret Ashton are interesting documents, relating firstly to the 1953 coronation and secondly…
Dunglass: Snapshots in Time – a talk by Dr Pat Simpson
The November 2023 talk was given by DDHS member Dr Pat Simpson and entitled Dunglass: Snapshots in Time. Pat has kindly sent 3…
Putting Dunbar on the Map: A talk by Paula Williams, National Library of Scotland
Our first talk of the new season in September was very successful as we had an excellent talk on maps of Dunbar…
The Roxburghe Marine Hotel
August 2023 Jim Herring did some research in the National Library of Scotland on The Roxburghe Marine Hotel, later the Roxburghe Hotel.…
Picturesque Dunbar – a Tourist Brochure (Part 2)
May 2023 This month, we are going to look at some more adverts from Picturesque Dunbar, the tourist brochures sold in Dunbar in…
DDHS activities 2022-2023
April 2023 This month, we are going to look at some slides from Pauline’s Smeed’s presentation at the AGM, in which she…