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Up Our Street Exhibition in Dunbar Town House

Smith the Bakers in the High Street

June 2023 This month, we are going to look at some of the boards displayed in the new DDHS exhibition in the…

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Published July 16, 2023
Categorised as Buildings, Exhibitions, History, Hotels, Shops, 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…

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Published June 23, 2023
Categorised as Buildings, Chemists, From the Archives, History, Place names, Shops, Transport

The Building and Opening of Dunbar Harbour Bridge in the Early 1860s

March 2023 At the AGM on 11 April, Jim Herring gave a short presentation on the original Dunbar Harbour bridge, which was…

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Published April 14, 2023
Categorised as Buildings, Fishing, History, Hospitals

Place-Names of the Original John Muir Way: A talk by Liz Curtis

Scottish Place Name Society

February 2023 This month we will be looking at some slides from a DDHS talk by place-name expert Liz Curtis. Liz studied…

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Published February 23, 2023
Categorised as From the Archives, History, Past Talks, Place names

Picturesque Dunbar – a Tourist Guide from c1902

Picturesque Dunbar

January 2023 The Society was recently given two tourist brochures from the early 1900s. We found a similar one in the archives…

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Published January 21, 2023
Categorised as Buildings, History, Hotels, Shops, Stations, Tourism & Hospitality

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