I started this project as a follow up to the start of the spread of the Corona virus to tell a new generation in Dunbar…
Dunbar in Lockdown– a personal perspective reflecting on the effect of Covid-19 on Dunbar. To find a precedent for the current lockdown, one should go back to the winter of 1337/8…
Clan Dunbar International is a group which was set up in the United States in 1977 by Robert Bruce Dunbar. It was incorporated in the…
As the centenary of the Great War approached interest in the whole story of the war increased. Programmes on television meant that we were reliving…
The seeds which grew into the Jumelage go back a long time. Andre Monrocher had studied in Edinburgh and his wife Danielle had been an…
I came to Dunbar Grammar School as Principal Teacher of History in October 1966. During my time at Hawick High School and at Galashiels Academy,…
The background. There is a long tradition of the presence of artillery in Dunbar 34 Battery of 16 Field Brigade [later regiment] was here before…
John Muir was born in Dunbar on 21st April 1838. The family emigrated to America in 1849. He married Louisa Wanda Strentzel in 1880 and…
The Bowe Cup This cup was handed over to the New Community Council in 1975 by Dunbar Burgh Council in whose keeping it was. I…
The Local Government Act of 1973 made provision for the creation of Community Councils They were designed to act as a channel of local opinion…