Sunday 11th Nov: Remembrance Day and Lighting of the Beacon.

6.20pm. Dunbar Pipe Band marched from the Royal British Legion down Victoria Street, across the harbour bridge to Dunbar Battery.

6.30pm. The atmospherically-lit Dunbar Battery was packed as the Battery Theatre Company entertained the audience.

Sharing of Stories – Stories of the men of Dunbar who went to War.

Music and readings from WW1

Songs related to Great War

On Friday 9th Nov., there was a great reception for another wonderful performance by the Battery Theatre Company in the Parish Church -- the church where Rev. James Kirk was minister. Performing in this space for the 100th anniversary of the end of the First World War gave an added poignancy to the play.

(photo credit David Graham).

Armistice concert: 

Dunbar Sings and members of the Dunbar History Society were at the centre of a highly-successful concert in the Parish Church on the Sunday afternoon with highlights from the pupils of Dunbar Grammar School who sang and read their own work for the audience.

 

Scientists from the St Abbs Marine Station are working in cooperation with commercial fishermen to study the population structure of lobsters and brown crabs in and around the St Abbs and Eyemouth Voluntary Marine Reserve (VMR). Around 2,000 lobsters and brown crabs will be tagged within and surrounding the VMR. Tags are a 2" yellow label with St Abbs Marine Station written on it with a unique identification number. The Marine Station will keep the animal to take measurements and release it back into the sea. For more details contact Kevin Scott at the St Abbs Marine Station on: hello@marinestation.co.uk and 01890 771 688

Reward: Lobsters = market value + £10.     Crabs = £10,  To Claim Reward:

1. Record location or position of recovery (latitude & longitude)

2. Bring the tagged lobster(s) and/or crab(s) to the St Abbs Marine Station. (7 days-a-week 9:00-17:00)

From our Harbourmaster:

"Many thanks to those volunteers who turned up today to help check the chains. Unfortunately the tides were not as low as predicted so we checked as many chain plates and adjacent chain as possible. Only minor defects have been found so far. We do try to keep mooring costs as low as possible and therefore volunteers are a great help in achieving this. When the planned extension to the slipway is completed we are hoping that a JCB may be able to be brought into the harbour to allow more comprehensive checks of buried chain to be completed. Many thanks to the volunteers who turned up again the following morning to assist with some basic checks. It highlighted a few minor defects and jobs needing doing so I will be in contact again later in the year / New Year to see if anyone is able to come and assist completing the work. The plan is to systematically check all cross chains as well as the main and secondary chains and to keep a written record as well as photographic records of our findings.

Also a mooring committee meeting is due to take place within the next fortnight. There have been a couple of new vessel applications so we are going to have to be flexible in some cases with current mooring allocations. We will be in contact about this at the earliest opportunity to give plenty time to everyone concerned to readjust their mooring location, should it be deemed necessary by the moorings committee.

best regards,  Quentin"

Here's an old plan, to give you a general idea of the layout.

A Harbour Users Meeting was held recently in the Methodist Church and gave attendees a chance to discuss with the Board recent harbour improvements and the future improvement plans. These included a strong emphasis on environmental matters and the need to keep our harbour tidy.

Presentations:

Walls - Robin Hamilton

Dunbar Battery - Steve Anderson

Battle’s Over - Alison Fisher.

Keep our harbour tidy - Yvonne Wymess

Improvement projects, future

Open forum for all to comment.

The Rowing Club's previous dolly was badly-rusted, plus shoving cast-iron up the slipway was proving hard work, so the club now has a fine, new, galvanised, lighter, steerable, tailor-made dolly/trolley made by local man, Andrew Watson.   Andy can be contacted on:-- 07746344220

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Steven Anderson, on behalf of the Harbour Trust, has received the Retrofit Award for 2018 from the Architect’s Journal. The jury decided that Dunbar Battery is “a playful and joyful space which is so engaging for adults and kids”. The panel also liked the way in which the existing wall on the site was salvaged and re-used to create a simple but effective design. It's been a very successful year from the Battery perspective. It has received the following recognition in the design world;

- AJ Architecture Awards 2017 - Winner; Budget Project of the Year

- AR New Into Old - International Shortlisted Finalist (1 of 15 worldwide)

- Civic Trust Awards - Regional Finalist (1 of 4 in Scotland)

- Scottish Civic Trust Award - Commendation 

- Scottish Design Awards 2018 - Highly Commended in Placemaking/Landscaping

- AJ Retrofit Awards 2018 - Winner; Best Listed Building Under £5M

- Landscape Institute Awards 2018 - Highly Commended

Awards for the creation of the space are nice to receive but it would be a failure without the community using the facility.  We are looking for interest for next year's calendar of events. Get in touch via the website; https://dunbarbattery.org.uk/ 

(photo credit Kenny Maule)

Dunbar Harbour featured on the ever-popular 'One Show' on Thursday 22nd Nov.

The harbour sparkled and local personalities represented us very ably: Shona, Gaz, Aly & of course Sammy. 

Everyone shone and displayed the harbour in its best light. Well done!!!

(photos from 'The One Show')

 

 

 

'Womble' friend, Marita Brown, of the Dunbar Against Litter team (DAL), helped clean-up the Battery & harbour-area for the Remembrance event. 

Please help wombles fight litter! --- you can adopt a street.

"Dunbar Against Litter" are on Facebook: @dunbaragainstlitter

(photo credit Yvonne Wymess)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Saturday Dec. 15th: Time: 3:30 --  4:30 pm.

CHRISTMAS CAROL EVENT BY CHURCHES TOGETHER, singing in the Battery

Courtesy of Rich Taylor – Here is a little film from last year https://vimeo.com/247646753