Skip to content

Dunbar History Society

  • Home
  • About
  • Syllabus
  • Meetings
    • Past Talks
  • From the Archives
    • Archives
    • Publications
    • History in Lockdown
    • Copyright Notice
    • Updates
  • Contact

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.

20th Anniversary of the Dunbar Harbour Trust – a talk by Alasdair Swan

View of Dunbar Battery looking north

The first talk of the new DDHS season was given by Society Treasurer Alasdair Swan and he sent this summary of his…

Continue reading 20th Anniversary of the Dunbar Harbour Trust – a talk by Alasdair Swan
Published September 28, 2024
Categorised as Buildings, Castles, Entertainment, From the Archives, Harbour, History, Hospitals, Past Talks

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…

Continue reading A Walk Around Historic Dunbar Exhibition
Published August 14, 2024
Categorised as Buildings, Fishing, From the Archives, Harbour, History, Place names

Bands Who Played at the Victoria Ballroom in 1966

Group 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…

Continue reading Bands Who Played at the Victoria Ballroom in 1966
Published July 26, 2024
Categorised as Adverts, Buildings, Entertainment, From the Archives, History

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…

Continue reading T Wilson Fish: Dunbar Benefactor and Historian
Published February 21, 2024
Categorised as Buildings, Churches, Fishing, From the Archives, History, Past Talks

East Barns: Celebration and Reference and Barneyhill employees

Barneyhill employees20240114_16480887
Agricultural workers at Barney Hill in 1919

Two recent donations to DDHS from members Andrew and Margaret Ashton are interesting documents, relating firstly to the 1953 coronation and secondly…

Continue reading East Barns: Celebration and Reference and Barneyhill employees
Published January 19, 2024
Categorised as Farms, From the Archives, History, Place names, Royalty

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…

Continue reading Dunglass: Snapshots in Time – a talk by Dr Pat Simpson
Published November 27, 2023
Categorised as Buildings, From the Archives, History, Houses, Local Women, Past Talks, Place names

Putting Dunbar on the Map: A talk by Paula Williams, National Library of Scotland

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…

Continue reading Putting Dunbar on the Map: A talk by Paula Williams, National Library of Scotland
Published October 3, 2023
Categorised as Buildings, From the Archives, Health, History, Hospitals, Past Talks, Place names

The Roxburghe Marine Hotel

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.…

Continue reading The Roxburghe Marine Hotel
Published September 5, 2023
Categorised as Buildings, From the Archives, History, Hotels, Local Women, Tourism & Hospitality

Picturesque Dunbar – a Tourist Brochure (Part 2)

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…

Continue reading Picturesque Dunbar – a Tourist Brochure (Part 2)
Published June 23, 2023
Categorised as Buildings, Chemists, From the Archives, History, Place names, Shops, Transport

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…

Continue reading DDHS activities 2022-2023
Published May 14, 2023
Categorised as Buildings, Fishing, From the Archives

Posts pagination

1 2 … 8 Older posts

We have recently revisited our resource section and converted it into monthly and bimonthly articles, making it easier to search. If you do spot any errors or omissions please let us know, it is work in progress.

Resources by year

  • 2025
  • 2024
  • 2023
  • 2022
  • 2021
  • 2020
  • 2019
  • 2018
  • 2017

Sitemap

  • Home
  • About
  • Syllabus
  • Meetings
    • Past Talks
  • From the Archives
    • Archives
    • Publications
    • History in Lockdown
    • Copyright Notice
    • Updates
  • Contact
Copyright © 2025. Images on this website may be used for non-commercial purposes, providing that the user of the image(s) acknowledges the source of the image i.e. Dunbar and District History Society’s and links back to the website at https://dunbarhistory.org.uk If any image is to be used in a publication – print or digital – the author must gain permission of Dunbar and District History Society for the use of that image.
  • Home
  • Contact
  • About
  • Cookie Policy (UK)
Manage Consent
To provide the best experiences, we use technologies like cookies to store and/or access device information. Consenting to these technologies will allow us to process data such as browsing behaviour or unique IDs on this site. Not consenting or withdrawing consent, may adversely affect certain features and functions.
Functional Always active
The technical storage or access is strictly necessary for the legitimate purpose of enabling the use of a specific service explicitly requested by the subscriber or user, or for the sole purpose of carrying out the transmission of a communication over an electronic communications network.
Preferences
The technical storage or access is necessary for the legitimate purpose of storing preferences that are not requested by the subscriber or user.
Statistics
The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for statistical purposes. The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for anonymous statistical purposes. Without a subpoena, voluntary compliance on the part of your Internet Service Provider, or additional records from a third party, information stored or retrieved for this purpose alone cannot usually be used to identify you.
Marketing
The technical storage or access is required to create user profiles to send advertising, or to track the user on a website or across several websites for similar marketing purposes.
Manage options Manage services Manage {vendor_count} vendors Read more about these purposes
View preferences
{title} {title} {title}