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AGM 2025: A Short Presentation by Dr James Herring

April 2025 The DDHS AGM took place on the 8th April 2025 in the Council Chambers in Dunbar Town House. The successful…

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Published April 16, 2025
Categorised as Adverts, Entertainment, Harbour, Health, History, Past Talks, Shops, Sport, Tourism & Hospitality, Transport

The Haddingtonshire Courier Yearbook 1905

June 2024 As a follow up to the post in April about the 1940 Haddingtonshire Courier Yearbook, Jim Herring investigated the 1905…

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Published June 19, 2024
Categorised as Adverts, Health, History, Hospitals, Shops

Dunbar Cottage Hospital: Operations, Incidents and Memories

Tennis courts next to the hospital

The final talk in the DDHS 2023-2024 season was entitled Dunbar Cottage Hospital: Operations, Incidents and Memories and delivered by Dr James…

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Published March 29, 2024
Categorised as Buildings, Health, History, Hospitals, Houses

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…

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Published October 3, 2023
Categorised as Buildings, From the Archives, Health, History, Hospitals, Past Talks, Place names

Dunbar Cottage Hospital talk by Dr James Herring

Yorke Lodge circled

December 2022 This month features a talk given to the Society by Dr James Herring. It is the first of two talks…

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Published December 29, 2022
Categorised as Buildings, From the Archives, Hays of Belton, Health, Hospitals, Local Women, Past Talks, Transport

Yorke Lodge Cottage Hospital

Photo by A P Thomson

More on the cottage hospital in Dunbar this month. We are fortunate to have the booklet produced by the hospital in the…

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Published May 8, 2022
Categorised as From the Archives, Health

The Former Cottage Hospital in Dunbar

Cottage hospital theatre

This month and next month, we will be looking at the former Cottage Hospital in Dunbar. The hospital produced a booklet c1930…

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Published April 1, 2022
Categorised as From the Archives, Health

The Military Hospital

This month continues our look at Dunbar Battery Hospital and focuses mainly on the hospital during World War One.

Published February 24, 2022
Categorised as From the Archives, Health

Dunbar Battery Hospital

This month and next month, we are going to look at information on and photos of Dunbar Battery Hospital, partly from reports…

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Published January 24, 2022
Categorised as From the Archives, Health

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