Local History
  • Free guided walks 07/04/2016

    Linda Bankier will be leading two guided walks in Berwick on Friday 15 April and Sunday 17 April 2016.  Free, but booking essential.

    Friday 15 April:  Georgian Berwick—A walk along Ravensdowne and Quay Walls, where the well-to-do lived,  starting at 2.30pm.

    Sunday 17 April: Greenses Arabs and Fish Tales—An historical walk around the High and Low Greens starting at 2.30pm.

    Book with Berwick Tourist Information Centre: 01670 622155


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  • Family History Day 29/03/2016

    On Saturday 16 April 2016, as the Our Families project of Berwick 900 draws to a close, a Family History Day will be held in the Town Hall, Berwick, from 10am until 4pm. There will be displays, talks, children’s activities, a performance by Berwick Youth Theatre – and an opportunity to book a session with a Family History expert to talk about your own research.  Free admission.  All welcome.

    Programme of Talks


    10.30am  Valerie Glass.  Northumberland & Durham Family History Society – come and find out about the North Northumberland...


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  • Peregrini Lindisfarne volunteers 06/03/2016

    A volunteer conference on the Peregrini Lindisfarne Landscape Partnership is being held on Saturday 12 March 2016, in two sessions: 10.00am – 12 noon, or 1.00 – 3.00pm. It will describe the opportunities for volunteering in the Community, Geology, Archaeology, and Archive projects. Linda Bankier will be there to talk about the Archive project.

    Venue: Bell View, 33 West Street, Belford. NE70 7QB.

    More details can be found at:


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  • Spittal Point 28/02/2016

    A tour of Spittal Point is being organised on the afternoon of Saturday 12 March 2016 by Sander Van Raemdonck, currently Artist In Residence in Berwick.  He says of the event, “During my stay in Berwick as artist in residence  and a visitor to the town essentially, I became interested in the proposed development of Spittal Point. I feel that it symbolises the struggle with our desires to maintain a rural picturesque and a qualitative nature, while expanding our infrastructural environment and while building for the future.

    The tour aims at bringing people together and to focus on the site, its heritage, its issues and its...


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  • Film, cake, and conversation 12/02/2016

    In October 2015 the Great Performing Rope occupied the streets of Berwick creating a 900 metre long route through the town centre carrying the 900 personal stories, memories and hopes of the people of Berwick and its visitors.

    November Club invites you to a film screening documenting the Berwick 900 finale event, ‘The Great Performing Rope’, followed by tea and cake and a conversation about where this could lead us to next…

    Thursday 18 February 2016, 4.30pm  
    Henry Travers Studio, The Maltings, Berwick

    The documentary film features footage...


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