The FBDMA Spring Lecture will take place on Friday 21 March 2025, at 7.00pm in the Parish Centre (Parade, Berwick).  Linda Bankier will speak about “Policing the Borough of Berwick (1836-1900)”.  The lecture will be preceded by a short Annual General Meeting.  Refreshments will be served.  All welcome.

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Did you go to Parade School or Holy Trinity School?  You are invited to share your memories of them at a Drop-In session in the Parish Centre (Parade, Berwick) on Saturday 15 February 2025, between 10.00am and 12.30pm.  Bring your memories and your photographs.  Archivist Linda Bankier and photographer Cameron Robertson will be there to talk about them with you.

For more information, contact:  history@berwickparishcentre.co.uk.

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A talk on “Berwick in the time of LS Lowry, 1930-1970s” will be given by Linda Bankier on Tuesday 11th February 2025 at 2.00pm in St Andrew’s Wallace Green Church. Linda will give a pictorial account of what was happening in Berwick at the time when Lowry would have been visiting.

Free admission  –  Refreshments provided.

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On Thursday 9th January 2025 a talk on 400 years of the Old Bridge in Berwick will be given by Linda Bankier to Coldstream & District Local History Society. It will start at 7.30pm in the Leet Room of Coldstream Community Centre.

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The FBDMA Autumn Lecture will take place on Friday 1st November 2024 at 7.00pm in the Parish Centre, Berwick.  Margaret Fox will speak on “A Death on the Sloop Juno: the story of Captain Robert Bruce and Joseph Ockton”.

On Monday 19th February 1855 a trial commenced at the High Court of Justiciary in Edinburgh. In the dock was Robert Bruce, ‘master of the sloop Juno of Berwick-on-Tweed’, awaiting trial for culpable homicide (manslaughter in England). Who do he kill? His ship’s mate, Joseph Ockton from Spittal. Why did he kill him? Because his tea wasn’t ready for him when he...

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