Welcome to our website
The Friends support the work of the Record Office and the Museum & Art Gallery in Berwick and their related interests across North Northumberland, from Beadnell to Wooler, from Belford to Norham. We promote lectures, exhibitions and special projects, arrange volunteer activities, and publish a quarterly newsletter.
The pictures above show some historic places and activities in North Northumberland: Marygate in Berwick 1924; Berwick station early 20th century; Black Bull at Etal; Spowarts’ buses; the smithy at Ford; Norham around 1903; horse & plough near Berwick, 1950s; Tweeddale Press fleet of vans 1960s; Holy Island Causeway and Bamburgh Castle; herring girls at Spittal; Berwick shipyard 1979; the Border Chief ferry leaving Spittal; Tweedmouth goods yard; Deltic locomotive at Tweedmouth station; Golden Square shortly after 1928; salmon fishing at Outwater Stell; gypsies at Wooler Haugh; West Street in Belford. [Photographs: Berwick Record Office; Kevin Graham; Fred Kennington; Richard Ormston]. The collections of the Museum and Record Office illuminate these and many others.
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Publications
The publications of the Friends include a quarterly Newsletter and a volume of local photographs. An online archive of the Newsletters extends back to 1994.
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Museum
The Museum is currently closed while the Living Barracks Project is being developed to provide a new framework for the museum collections.
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Record Office
Tudor documents relating to the construction of the Elizabethan fortifications in Berwick were purchased with the assistance of funding from the Friends.
Latest News
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Date: 18/04/2025
Riding of the Bounds
To coincide with Berwick's Riding of the Bounds 2025, on Saturday 3rd May there will be a free exhibition on the history of the ceremony...
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Date: 16/04/2025
Phipps of Barmoor
Dr Beth Elliott will give a talk about "The Phipps of Barmoor collection" on Thursday 24 April 2025 in Lowick Village Hall at 7.30pm. Beth...
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Date: 22/03/2025
Bridging the Tweed
On Friday 28 March 2025, 10.00am-12.00 noon, a lecture on "Bridging the Tweed" will be given by Linda Bankier, Berwick Archivist, in the...
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