August 2023 Jim Herring did some research in the National Library of Scotland on The Roxburghe Marine Hotel, later the Roxburghe Hotel.…
Category: Tourism & Hospitality
Up Our Street Exhibition in Dunbar Town House
June 2023 This month, we are going to look at some of the boards displayed in the new DDHS exhibition in the…
Picturesque Dunbar – a Tourist Guide from c1902
January 2023 The Society was recently given two tourist brochures from the early 1900s. We found a similar one in the archives…
Where to stay in Dunbar – in the 1960s
The following photos are of pages in another 1960s brochure produced by Dunbar Town Council. There is no date on the brochure…
Summers in Dunbar
This month’s photos are taken from the exhibition, curated by Pauline Smeed, which is available in the History Society’s room in the…
It’s A Knockout 1969
In Dunbar’s social history, one of the key events – in terms of the visibility of the town to the outside world…
The ups and downs of tourism
This month’s resource comes in the form of a video. It is an extract from the talk given by Jim Herring in…
William Main & Sons
This month features one shop in Dunbar – William Main & Sons – the recently closed Saddlers’ shop and cafe. The shop…
Dunbar Cafe Culture in the 1950s and 60s
This month, we move on to cafes in Dunbar in the 1950s and 1960s. Click on all photos to see an enlarged…
Temperance Hotels
We’re sticking with hotels for February – 2 Temperance hotels and 2 others. Wilson’s Temperance Hotel was where the Bank of Scotland…