We have extensive archives

& can offer help with research

Visiting Us

Volunteers are available to give assistance, and you may use our Reading Room / Reference Library. However, if you wish to consult reserved material please give us details of your enquiry and to arrange an appointment. Follow the ‘contact us’ link below.

Appointments may be made outside weekend opening times.

Research Enquiries

Please go to our ‘Contact Us‘ page for further details about enquiries.

HOW TO FIND US

Research

In 1999 the Museum was able to purchase and convert the flat above its existing property. This was achieved with the help of the Heritage Lottery Fund. We now have a light and comfortable research / reading room with facilities for consulting reference material, including:

  • A large collection of old photographs of Dollar people and places
  • Folders of material from past exhibitions
  • Dollar Magazines from 1902 to the present
  • Local reminiscences
  • Old maps
  • Graveyard inscriptions
  • Record of Lairs
  • Valuation Rolls
  • Photographs of the Devon Valley Railway
  • Dollar Foundling
FAMILY HISTORY

Archive Images

Below is a small selection of images from Dollar Museum’s
large Photographic Collection. Click on photo to get larger image.

Blairhill House [now demolished]

Burnside, Dollar, after 1877 flood

Argyll Street, Dollar, 1913

Bleachworks and River Devon, Dollar

Provost Breingan and Dollar Town Council

Provost Lavinia Malcolm, Dollar, First Female Provost in Scotland (1913-19)

Sheardale House [built 1855, demolished 1974]

Dollar Scouts outside Burnside Hall

Burnside, Dollar, 1911

Dancing in Burnside, Dollar – Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, 1953

Dancing in Burnside - Coronation 1953

Staff of Devon Valley Railway at Dollar Station, 1930s

Front of Royal Train in Dollar Station, 1963

Bridge Street, Dollar, late 19th Century

Castle Campbell

Closure Notice: Devon Valley Railway, 1962

Cowden Castle in 1905

Dollar Mine after first closure, 1958

Dollar Mine from west, 1971

Old Town, Dollar, 1907

Dollar Parish Church, 1898 [built 1841-3]

Post Office workers, Dollar

Dollar Station

Dollar Tennis Club

Dollar viaduct and the Glen Nevis, 1953

Dollar viaduct and the Maid of Lorn, 1957

Dollarbeg mansion [built 1889]

Dollarfield House and farm buildings

Four Seasons Hotel, Chapel Place, Dollar, 1953

General view of Dollar, c. 1900

Harviestoun Castle, Dollar [demolished 1970]

Hillfoot House, Dollar, home of McArthur Moirs

Last passenger train, 13 June 1964, at Dollar

Plaque celebrating Lavinia Malcolm, First Woman Provost in Scotland, Dollar.

Long Bridge, Dollar Glen

Mr James Christie and staff of Dollar Public School

Naemoor House, now Lendrick Muir School [built 1874]

Old School House, Burnside, Dollar [built c.1640]

Royal car at Dollar Station, 1963

Dollar Academy Hockey pavilion and team

St James the Great Church, Dollar [built 1879-82]

Level Crossing at Tillicoultry, 1964, now the Devon Way

Train in Dollar Station, 1964

McNabb Street, Dollar

Robert Burns Cairn, Harviestoun

Westertoun Farm, Dollar Mine, 1962

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