This month’s photos have been generously supplied by Fran Woodrow from the John Gray Centre Archives in Haddington. They all represent some…
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.
Dunbar Gala Days – A Clerical Error
This month features some photos from the 1920s and focuses on Dunbar Gala days. The photos from the Fancy Dress Parade have…
Dunbar in the 1950s – New Publication
The latest publication from The Society is by Dr Jim Herring and the cover is shown above. Please go to the book’s…
The ups and downs of tourism
This month’s resource comes in the form of a video. It is an extract from the talk given by Jim Herring in…
The Belhaven Bridge Bazaar
This month’s entry focuses on Belhaven Bridge aka The Bridge to Nowhere. In response to a query to the Society from Canada, Robert…
Local place names
Following on from last month’s analysis of the 1893 map, this month looks at the remaining two quadrants of the map. Starting…
The 6 inch map of Haddingtonshire
The map this month is from 1893 and is an extract from a 6 inch map of Haddingtonshire as East Lothian was…
Wood’s 1830 map of Dunbar
This month and September 2019 will be devoted to maps of Dunbar at different times. For August, we will look at part…
The Playhouse
This month features the Playhouse and some surviving photos of the exterior and interior of the picture house/cinema. The Playhouse stood at…
William Main & Sons
This month features one shop in Dunbar – William Main & Sons – the recently closed Saddlers’ shop and cafe. The shop…