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Meetings take place in Dunbar Town House on the 2nd Tuesday of each month from 7pm

Dunbar 650

Did you see this flag flying on the Town House on the 8th February 2020? Did you wonder what it…Continue readingDunbar 650

This year, 2020, will mark the 650th anniversary of the granting of the Royal Charter to Dunbar. Dunbar Community Council…Continue readingOccasional Histories of Dunbar

This month features some photos from the 1920s and focuses on Dunbar Gala days. The photos from the Fancy Dress…Continue readingDunbar Gala Days – A Clerical Error

This month’s entry focuses on Belhaven Bridge aka The Bridge to Nowhere. In response to a query to the Society from…Continue readingThe Belhaven Bridge Bazaar

This month sees an innovation in the Resources section in that it features extracts from one of the monthly talks…Continue readingWho lived at the Eden Hotel?

More about the railway in Dunbar again this month. With the re-opening of a second platform in 2019 featuring in…Continue readingMore about Dunbar Station

This month includes a fascinating insight into the contents of Knockenhair House after the death of Sir Reginald Wingate in…Continue readingThe Knockenhair Auction Catalogue

This month, we’re going back to 1950 and The Haddingtonshire Courier to look at some adverts. When reading this advert,…Continue readingThe World’s Greatest Lighter and Bad Men of Tombstone

Continuing the theme of shops in the High Street in the 1950s, the photos below are of MJ and B.…Continue readingWilliamson’s ladies outfitters at 31 High Street

The Society also has a good number of oral history recordings and these will be made available through the Dunbar…Continue readingDunbar Oral History Archive