This month features more photographs from the W Black publication Views of Dunbar. Firstly, there is a photo of Black’s shop and warehouse.…
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.
Views of Dunbar
This month features photographs from a book donated to the Society by Pamela Murray (nee Low). The photographs are late 19th and early…
Fisher Lassies
This month, we are going back to Dunbar harbour in the early 20th century. We do not have exact dates for these…
The Knockenhair Auction Catalogue
This month includes a fascinating insight into the contents of Knockenhair House after the death of Sir Reginald Wingate in 1953. The…
The World’s Greatest Lighter and Bad Men of Tombstone
This month, we’re going back to 1950 and The Haddingtonshire Courier to look at some adverts. When reading this advert, there are…
John the Busman – John Anderson
This month’s resources are a follow up to a High Street photo in the December 2017 section. The following have kindly been…
Bedding and Mattresses Purified and Re-made
A mixed bag of images for December. Firstly, a 1936 bill from George Low and Son, then an undated photo of the…
The East Lothian Banking Company
This month features images of two bank notes from the East Lothian Banking Company which opened in 1810 in Dunbar, but had to close…
Centenary Sale
This month includes another photo of George Low and his staff, probably from the early 1950s (donated by Pam Murray), plus an…
George Low and Mr Spence
The theme of shops in the High Street continues, this time featuring George Low and Son. the following photos, donated to the…