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The “Our Families” Project is a Heritage Lottery funded project which was established to collect stories and to research families connected with Berwick, Tweedmouth and Spittal. Volunteers have gathered information from the censuses, electoral registers, parish records, newspapers and other sources. The main areas of Berwick which have been studied are:
Click the links above to go to the lists of properties in each street. There are also links to maps and to stories inspired by some of the documents discovered.
An associated strand of the project has produced a searchable database of people admitted to the Guild of Freemen of Berwick-upon-Tweed, in the period 1800-1940.
Maps
The numbering of houses shows some inconsistencies over time, but an outline of the development of properties in these areas can be traced in comparative maps – for 1852, 1897, and 1923. Through the links below, the maps can be viewed in detail in a PDF format.
 LOW GREENS and HIGH GREENS. Click this link to see large-scale maps for 1852, 1897, and 1923. Use the controls in your browser or Adobe Acrobat to enlarge the detail of the maps.
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 RAVENSDOWNE. Click this link to see large-scale maps for 1852, 1897, and 1923. |
Stories from the Our Families project
As part of the project, a group of volunteers explored the archives as a source of inspiration for Creative Writing. Some of the resulting stories can be read on the OUR FAMILIES’ STORIES page.