Author: Dunbar Community

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, both as a pupil and teacher, I had been involved with drama, which I considered Read More …

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 about the importance of the Royal Charter which created the burgh of Dunbar on 8th Read More …

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 when Dunbar was besieged by the Earls of Salisbury and Arundel and defended by Agnes Countess Read More …

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 state of Florida in 1982 as a clan society There have been seven chieftains and Read More …

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 much of it. This interest has carried on to the story of the Second World Read More …

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 “assistante” in Dunbar Grammar School. East Lothian District Council c 1990 was enthusiastic about twinning. Read More …

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 the Second World War and was armed with 18 pounders the predecessor to the 25 Read More …

Main Picture Credit: John Muir and Theodore Roosevelt, 1903. Library of Congress 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 lived in Martinez. Read More …

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 consulted Major Alastair Bowe, the grandson of the original donor, to discuss how it might Read More …

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 to the elected councils. They were to be established by the District Councils where there Read More …