Clan Dunbar International

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…

Lest We Forget 

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…

Twinning

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…

The 25pdr gun at Dunbar

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…

Dunbar and John Muir

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…

Dunbar Community Council Awards

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,…