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Gardening under way
Members of the Neighbourhood Group have already helped with the Spring weeding of the flower bed outside Blair’s works and the wild flower garden beside Colvin Street. We are now just hoping for warmer weather!
Plans are being drawn up to see whether we can turn the area shown in the photo into more of a [...]
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Coastlife Centre – Feasibility Study Report
Phoenix Economics has now published the Final Report for the Coastlife Centre and it makes great reading.
A full version can be obtained by contacting us at shore.harbour@yahoo.co.uk
The essence of the findings was that a Coastlife Centre with Igloovision at its heart would be a great asset to Dunbar. It would run at a small profit [...]
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Dunbar Coastlife Center
Click here to find the Dunbar Coastlife Center website
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Coastlife centre – What it might look like
A simple, elegant, environmentally sustainable structure, designed to accommodate the cinemax auditorium, would be sited in a fully landscaped coastal garden with teaching and seating spaces.
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Coastlife centre – one possible location
The Site and Building
The site that we have identified as offering the best potential for this project, is the old Amusement Arcade site at Lamer Street on the East Beach. This site is privately owned and is currently the subject of a planning application for seven houses.
The Dunbar Shore and Harbour Neighbourhood Group believes [...]
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Coastlife Centre by the East Beach
The Shore and Harbour Neighbourhood Group is behind an exciting concept to develop the currently derelict site adjacent to the Playgarden at Lamer Street.
We have it in mind that this site should be the focus for a small but special attraction which will hopefully appeal to both Dunbar residents and tourists to the town, alike.
Consequently, [...]
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The Fishermen’s Monument
Leigh Bradley has completed her report for us on the Monument which we have submitted to the Harbour Trust today in the hope that it will be of help to them in their deliberations as to how best to restore and maintain this part of Dunbar’s heritage. The Neighbourhood Group is most grateful to Gordon [...]
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The Fishermen’s Monument
Gordon Nicholson has kindly produced this photograph for us. Who can date the soldiers?
Robert Ramsay has helped us by unearthing information to show that the monument was rendered in plaster and painted a pale bluish grey. Its front was smooth. It would seem that the white painted scene originally was not all white. Interesting before [...]
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Woodbush litter bin
Our thanks go to East Lothian Council for moving so quickly to place a litter bin close to where Woodbush joins the East Beach at Woodbush Brae. No excuse for us dog-owners now !
The dog fouling around Woodbush appears to have been much reduced recently which is most encouraging.
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