An open weekend celebrating the life and legacy of Louisa, Marchioness of Waterford, will be held in Ford village on 14th and 15th April 2018. There will be events at Ford Castle and grounds (open 11am-5pm) with exhibitions about the history of the castle and estate and also a Record Office exhibition about Ford in the time of the Waterfords; at Lady Waterford Hall (open 11am-5pm) there will be guided tours at 11.30am and 2.00pm; St Michael & All Angels Church will be open dawn to dusk. 

Linda Bankier, Berwick Archivist, will give a talk about the theme of the exhibition in the Castle, Ford in the time of the Waterfords, at...

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A Creative Writing Taster Session is being held in the Record Office in Berwick Library on Tuesday 27 March 2018, from 10am to 12 noon. Gilly Beckett will look at ways of developing your ideas, the craft skills to enable you to write creatively, and where to start.  Refreshments included.

Book a free place at Eventbrite – northumberlandlibraries.eventbrite.com

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The exhibition “The Archive of Smith” currently at the Granary Gallery in Berwick shows local photographs of the 1950s onwards held in the Photo Centre collection. Many local people will have memories of the events or individuals shown, and archivist Linda Bankier and exhibition curator Cameron Robinson are eager to collect any related recollections and stories which will add to the background context of the photographs.

Two drop-in sessions are being held at the Gallery on Friday 23rd and Saturday 24th March 2018, both from 11.00am until 1.00pm, to which you are invited to come along and share with Linda and Cameron...

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The FBDMA Spring Lecture and Annual General Meeting will be held on Friday 16 March 2018, in the Parish Centre, Berwick.  Dr Catherine Kent will give a lecture about Elizabethan Berwick, entitled “‘One perfytt Booke’: the 1562 survey of Berwick-upon-Tweed”.

The AGM will begin at 7pm.

The lecture will begin, after refreshments, at approximately 7.45pm.  All welcome.

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An exhibition of photographs from the Photocentre collection, now held by Berwick Record Office, is being presented by Berwick Visual Arts at the Granary Gallery, from 27 January until 13 May 2018. It tells the story of the photo news agency founded in Berwick by David Smith in 1951, and continued by his son Ian in their Bridge Street premises until its closure in 2012. The exhibition is entitled The Archive of Smith, Berwick: From Photo-News Service to Photo Centre and it is curated by Cameron Robertson with Kate Best.

The Granary Gallery is open Wednesday-Sunday, 11.00am-4.00pm. Admission free.

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