A series of walks around Berwick’s walled fortifications has been arranged as part of an English Heritage Community Connections project which is being run by Berwick Record Office.  They are:

A programme of early films of Berwick, made between 1911 and the 1950s, will be shown in Berwick Record Office (at Berwick Library, 1st floor) on Saturday 21st March 2026. There will be two screenings at 11.00am and 2.30pm and each will last around 40 minutes.  Free admission.

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A talk on “The Elizabeth Walls” is to be given by Jim Herbert on Friday 20th March 2026, at 7.00pm in the Parish Centre.  This forms part of a research project on Berwick’s Elizabethan ramparts which is currently being undertaken for Berwick Heritage Open Days, under the auspices of the Friends.

All are welcome. The talk is free to attend thanks to funding and support from the National Lottery Heritage Fund and English Heritage.

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The Friends’ Spring lecture will be “The Living Barracks: a Museum and Archives update”. It will take place on Friday 13th March 2026 at 7.00pm in the Parish Centre (Parade, Berwick). Kevin Booth (Head of Collections, English Heritage) and Linda Bankier (Berwick Archivist) will discuss the work which has been taking place in preparation for the opening of new Museum and Archives services in the Barracks. They will focus on some of the discoveries and surprises which have come to light in the course of the work.

The talk will be preceded by a short Annual General Meeting (the 32nd, for 2025).

All welcome....

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A rarely seen work by L.S Lowry is to go on display at The Storehouse in Berwick Barracks, from Saturday 21st February until 22nd March 2026, to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the artist’s death on 23 February.

The pencil sketch acquired by The Maltings (Berwick) Trust earlier this year, depicts a boat and figures on the beach at Spittal, Berwick-upon-Tweed and is titled Spittal, Berwick (1960). The work will be exhibited alongside two other Lowry works which form part of the town’s collection Old Berwick (1936) and Beach Scene (1954), and this will be the first time these works have been on public display since Berwick...

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