To mark the centenary of the end of the First World War, Berwick Record Office in conjunction with Berwick Town Council is running an event in the Guildhall, Berwick on the weekend of Saturday 10th/ Sunday 11th November. There will be displays, family activities and talks about Berwick and the surrounding area. The displays will include material on the Belgian refugees; Berwick’s contribution to the War on the Home and War Front; local poetry; information on the stories behind the names on St Andrews Wallace Green War Memorial; school work, and much more. On the Sunday, the town’s Book of Remembrance...

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On Saturday 20th and Sunday 21st October 2018 the Record Office will be participating in an exhibition of photographs in Etal Village Hall.  There will be  pictures of people and places relating to Etal in the last 100 years, many of them never catalogued or identified.  Visitors are invited to drop in and see what they can recognise, so that as many individuals and buildings as possible can be identified – and well as the dates when photographs might have been taken.

The exhibition will be open on both days from 11:00am until 3:00pm – and there is said to be a lot to look...

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As part of Armed Forces Day on Saturday 30 June 2018, there will be exhibitions in the Guildhall about Berwick in 1918, Crookham during World War I, and the Rothbury trenches. These have been prepared by Berwick Record Office and the Crookham and Berwick Branch of the Royal  British Legion.  There will also be family activities organised by Berwick Museum and Art Gallery.

Open 10am – 2pm.  Refreshments available.  Free admission, all welcome.

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Berwick Record Office is one of nine organisations which have been awarded grants for cataloguing their collections as part of the 2018 Archives Revealed programme of The National Archives.  The grant will fund “Twixt Thistle and Rose : Unlocking Berwick Borough’s Archives”, an ambitious project to recatalogue BRO’s core collection and to amalgamate later uncatalogued deposits of pre 1974 records including Planning and Quarter Sessions records, to form a composite online catalogue and highlight the hidden gems it contains.

The press release from The National Archives can be seen

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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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