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 (1836-1920)”.  The lecture will be preceded by a short Annual General Meeting.  Refreshments will be served.  All welcome.

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On Friday 28 March 2025, 10.00am-12.00 noon, a lecture on “Bridging the Tweed” will be given by Linda Bankier, Berwick Archivist, in the William Elder Building (Castlegate, Berwick) as part of a series organised by Berwick Educational Association.

Bridges are an integral part of our landscape, helping us to cross rivers and other obstacles on journeys from A to B. In this lecture, which is in association with Friends of Berwick and District Museum and Archive, Linda Bankier will consider the history of bridges on the lower River Tweed from Coldstream down to Berwick-upon-Tweed. When and how were they built, who has...

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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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