On Saturday 10 May 2025, a VE Day Community Tea Dance will be held in the Gymnasium within Berwick Barracks to mark the 80th anniversary of Victory in Europe Day.  It takes place from 2.00pm until 4.30pm and tickets cost £5 (including refreshments) obtainable from The Maltings. Step back in time – learn some dance steps and hear the music of the time.  Period dress optional.

For further information and tickets, see The Maltings website.

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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 presented in the Record Office (in the Library, Walkergate, Berwick), from 10am until 4pm.

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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 has been listing the collection, which is held by Northumberland Archives, and she will talk about what she has found.

The collection contains deeds, plans, accounts and estate papers relating to the Phipps family of Barmoor. Most relate to Samuel Phipps and concern his properties in London, Yorkshire and Northumberland. There are also some manorial documents. The Phipps were predecessors of the Sitwell family. Most of the collection dates from the 18th century.  A project to work...

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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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