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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

Reading the High Street: What Dunbar’s Buildings can tell us.  A Talk by Gareth Jones

February 2025 The February 2025 DDHS talk was delivered by architect Gareth Jones, who sent 3 of his slides to give people…

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Published February 17, 2025
Categorised as Buildings, History, Houses, Past Talks, Shops, Stations

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

DDHS AGM 2024

The Society’s 2024 took place in the Town House on 9th April. Following the main business, there were short presentations by some…

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Published April 29, 2024
Categorised as Churches, History, Shops

George Low & Sons: Shop, Upholstery and Auctions

G Low lorry outside the assembly rooms
G Low lorry outside the assembly rooms

July 2023 This month we are going to look at some new photos (donated by Pam Murray neé Low) relating to her…

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Published August 15, 2023
Categorised as Buildings, History, Shops

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

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

Dunbar High Street Shopping

Tait the Butcher's on the corner of the High Street and West Port

This month, we are back to shops in the High Street and some examples from the Up Our Street exhibition, curated by…

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Published September 1, 2018
Categorised as From the Archives, Shops

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