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DBH Timeline
The Annual Supper for the Poor of the Town is held in the Burgh Hall on New Year’s Eve by the Good Templar Legion. The Parish Church Sabbath School Soiree is also held at the Burgh Hall.
The Literary Society request a reduction of rent for their use of the Commissioners’ Room in the Burgh Buildings. The reduced sum of 4 shillings per night was refused on the basis that ‘it is poor enough if 20 or 30 gentlemen cannot pay two pence or three pence per…
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The cost of gas in the office of Mr Hunter, the Burgh Treasurer, ‘who was inclined to go out of the building leaving the gas burning’ was discussed by the Police Commissioners.
Ladies of the district meet in the lesser Burgh Hall to consider the arrangements for the Women’s Jubilee offering to Queen Victoria.
The Police Commissioners inquire about meeting in the room occupied by the Freemasons. It is suggested that the Freemasons’ rent be reduced to £10 per annum. The Freemasons themselves suggest £6, on the basis that they had been Burgh Hall tenants for the last twelve years
Dunoon Public School Seniors hold a Christmas concert. ‘The Burgh Hall was densely filled, pupils on a platform extended into the Hall’ and at New Year, at the annual Highland Ball, ‘dancing started at 9 o’clock until the early hours.
A Hall-keeper is appointed for the Burgh Buildings. 20 applications were received and Mr Thomas Thomson, Slater, was appointed.
At a meeting of the Police Commissioners, James Duncan Esq of Benmore was thanked for opening up his picture gallery and for his ‘great kindness and generous liberality to Dunoon and its numerous visitors.’
Minutes of a Police Commissioners’ meeting in the Burgh Hall note that: ‘Three lamplighters returned to the Burgh Hall after performing their work within a short time of each other, showing that their districts had been correctly allocated.’
An exhibition of needlework takes place in the Lesser Burgh Hall, a room on the building’s ground floor (now The Colm Docherty Gallery), as reported in the Cowal Watchman.