Hotels – Dunbar History Society

Three spectacular Dunbar fires

July 2026 This month, Dr James Herring features 3 significant fires that have occurred in Dunbar – one store, one church. and…

February 2026 The penultimate talk in the DDHS 2025-2026 season was delivered by Dr James Herring and despite a wet, cold and…

Albert Hotel in a 1936 postcard

January 2025 – Research by Dr James Herring One of Dunbar’s long lasting hotels began life as The Albert Temperance Hotel in…

Postcard for the hotel

August 2023 Jim Herring did some research in the National Library of Scotland on The Roxburghe Marine Hotel, later the Roxburghe Hotel.…

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…

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