Category: Royal Charter

The local Government [Scotland] Act of 1973 swept away the Burgh and County Councils and in their place introduced a two tier system of Regional and District Councils. Malcolm Duncan, * the chief executive of East Lothian, reckoned that in Read More …

Dunbar Civic Week is a legacy from the Burgh Council. The final meeting of the Committee of the Organising committee for the sixth centenary celebrations  met in January 1971. It was made up of several Councillors and other prominent townspeople. Read More …

Part 1 The Grand Hotels During the twentieth century the town had developed into a considerable small holiday resort. The historic St George Hotel had been established since 1625 and by the end of the 19th Century two important hotels Read More …

The Burgh Council published another very useful document, a copy of which has surfaced alongside the final minute of its last meeting in 1975, which dates back we think to between 1959 and not later than 1965. It was a Read More …

Vale atque vale … ROYAL BURGH OF DUNBAR MINUTE OF THE LAST MEETING of the PROVOST, MAGISTRATES & COUNCILLORS held within the Council Chambers, Town House, Dunbar On THURSDAY, 15th May, 1575 at 8.30 pm. SEDERUNT The Meeting was attended Read More …

Provost R H (Jimmy) James set up a committee to consider the question of the celebration of the 6th centenary anniversary of the Charter. He invited Peter MacIntyre a former dux boy of Dunbar School and history graduate of, and Read More …

Did you see this flag flying on the Town House on the 8th February 2020? Did you wonder what it was? Did you wonder why it was flying? It is the official coat of arms granted to the Royal Burgh Read More …

This year, 2020, will mark the 650th anniversary of the granting of the Royal Charter to Dunbar.  Dunbar Community Council had plans to make a great celebration of this during June’s Civic Week but with the Coronavirus outbreak all our Read More …