The first talk of the new DDHS season was given by Society Treasurer Alasdair Swan and he sent this summary of his talk. Text by…
August 2024 DDHS’s new exhibition – curated by Pauline Smeed – complements the 4th edition of Stephen Bunyan’s A Walk Around Historic Dunbar and features…
July 2024 The Victoria Ballroom(Photo) was converted in the early 1960s from being the gymnasium for the Castlepark Barracks into a dancehall, becoming one of…
The February 2024 DDHS talk was on the little known T Wilson Fish, who was a benefactor and historian and the large audience was treated…
Two recent donations to DDHS from members Andrew and Margaret Ashton are interesting documents, relating firstly to the 1953 coronation and secondly to a reference…
The November 2023 talk was given by DDHS member Dr Pat Simpson and entitled Dunglass: Snapshots in Time. Pat has kindly sent 3 slides form her…
Our first talk of the new season in September was very successful as we had an excellent talk on maps of Dunbar through the centuries…
August 2023 Jim Herring did some research in the National Library of Scotland on The Roxburghe Marine Hotel, later the Roxburghe Hotel. Here are some…
May 2023 This month, we are going to look at some more adverts from Picturesque Dunbar, the tourist brochures sold in Dunbar in the late 1890s…
April 2023 This month, we are going to look at some slides from Pauline’s Smeed’s presentation at the AGM, in which she updated the audience…
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