The Record Office has embarked on its Twixt Thistle and Rose Project, which aime to recatalogue the historic Berwick Borough Archives collection. It offers various volunteering opportunities including cataloguing, research, writing blogs, transcription, and conservation repackaging. Two meetings are being held to explain and to recruit volunteers, on Saturday 23 March and Tuesday 26th March, in the Record Office in the Library Building, Walkergate. Both meetings start at 2.00pm. If you would like to find out more, come along to one of them the organisers of the project.
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The Record Office is now producing two new regular blogs, both available on the Northumberland Archives website. “Twixt Thistle and Rose” is a project now under way to re-catalogue the Berwick Borough Archives, and its progress and discoveries are being reported in the blog here: https://www.northumberlandarchives.com/category/twixt-thistle-rose/ The other blog is “Berwick Advertiser – 100 Years Ago”, presenting a selection of items from the newspaper...
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A talk entitled “From Cocklawburn to Budle Bay: stories from the Peregrini project” will be given by Linda Bankier, Berwick Archivist, on Wednesday 16 January 2019 at 7.30pm. It will be a meeting of Berwick History Society, at the Parish Centre (Parade, Berwick). Free to members; visitors £2.
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Cameron Robertson will give a talk about the Photo Centre Collection, now held by the Record Office, for the Berwick upon Tweed History Society. It will take place at 7.30pm on Wednesday 19th December 2018 in the Parish Centre (Parade, Berwick). Admission charge for non-members of the Society (£2). When David Smith began his photo news agency in Berwick in 1951, demand for his work came thick and fast at a local and national level. An experienced journalist with a keen eye for a story, he captured a wide range of subjects, from a visiting celebrity to a runaway circus elephant, not to mention a host of wedding and...
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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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