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  • Walks around the Walls 09/04/2026

    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:

     

    Monday 13 April 11 am :  Elizabethan Walls – Meet at the Loovre on Bankhill (Jim Herbert)

     

    Monday 13 April 1.30 pm – Riverside Walls – Meet on the Ness Gate (Jim Herbert)

     


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  • #AncestryHour 20/01/2016

    An information exchange for family historians is now firmly established at #AncestryHour, which began in 2014 as a Twitter-based service set up by Borders Ancestry. This continues on a regular weekly basis on Tuesday evenings between 7.00pm and 8.00pm (GMT) when anyone with a Twitter account can join in with questions, information or opinions about any aspect of genealogy.

    It has now been supplemented by a Facebook page and a website with a blog provided by a guest editor.  And its latest initiative is a Forum which can facilitate live chat sessions among groups of members with...


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