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Category: Hospitals

20th Anniversary of the Dunbar Harbour Trust – a talk by Alasdair Swan

View of Dunbar Battery looking north

The first talk of the new DDHS season was given by Society Treasurer Alasdair Swan and he sent this summary of his…

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Published September 28, 2024
Categorised as Buildings, Castles, Entertainment, From the Archives, Harbour, History, Hospitals, Past Talks

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

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

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

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