IN EDWARDIAN times, Dunbar was a good deal more fashionable than it is today. Tourists came from as far as London to enjoy the beaches, the walks and the nearby golf courses; the Dunbar hotels, which today operate under straitened circumstances, enjoyed a roaring trade during the summer months. The celebrated North Berwick postcard artist Reginald Phillimore fully approved of Dunbar and often went there to paint the picturesque scenery There has been a castle overlooking Dunbar Harbour since early Medieval times, several times besieged, repaired and extended. Its finest hour came in 1338, when ‘Black Agnes’ the Countess of Dunbar and a small troop of soldiers successfully withstood a siege from superior English forces.