By 1900 Dunbar had become a tourist resort. Visitors would arrive by train to enjoy a holiday by the sea. Local households made room to cater for the many families who would arrive for a week or two, seeking reasonably priced accommodation for the Glasgow Fair or Edinburgh Trades holidays. Cafes, restaurants and many smaller hotels and boarding houses catered for their needs.

'In these days every house was let. Every Council house was let out - I had the same families that used to come every year - I had five of my own and sometimes five, sometimes six visitors.'

'Each bedroom got a can of hot water every morning left at the door. They put their shoes out and you had to clean them and put them back, with the room number in chalk on the bottom.

'You couldn't get them all in, there was still a queue outside and you had to keep running the film to see if anybody would vacate their seats but they didn't so people just had to go away and come back another night which was good to see.'

A permanent cinema first opened in the Corn Exchange in 1912. The last film shown at the Playhouse was in 1994. The building was demolished and replaced by the new Health Centre.

'We did a lot of dancing that day in the park. We got frocks made, purple frocks. There was two green, two purple, two blue. Funny no-one found out who gave that money for the park!'

In 1925 the Council received funds from an anonymous benefactor and a public park was laid out on part of Winterfield Estate. Tennis courts, playing fields and a putting green were added.

'The Pierrots, I remember some of the names. There was Edna Melville, Johnny Rae, small but 'guid', a Glasgow man. He was the M.C. as you might say, the master of ceremonies.'

'When the visitors came you had the pool ballroom and dances at the weekend at the Craig-en-gelt. You could dance every night of the week.'

'It was cold, really cold!'

What had begun as the Ladies Pond in the 1880s became by the 1930s the largest open air pool in Scotland. By the late 1960s, as well as diving competitions, swimming galas and late night fireworks, the regular Bathing Beauty Competitions, had become a major attraction.

'I gave out the numbers while Cairns Boston called out the names. The Town council gave the prizes of £100, £50, £25 and £10 for appearing in the final, while the Evening News provided the judges and brought them down from Edinburgh.'