Join Gateshead-based artist Kate Liston for a creative writing workshop inviting you to participate in individual and collective writing experiments responding to the River Tweed. You will be led through tasks that invite you to remix language relating to the river, drawing from Border poetry, philosophical texts about boundaries, and river management documents. This is an opportunity […]

Among Britain’s many working dogs, few have a history as intriguing – and as short‑lived – as the Tweed Water Spaniel. This sturdy, tawny‑coated dog lived along the River Tweed and the nearby coastline, where salmon nets, cold surf, and rocky shores shaped it into a powerful and reliable water worker. One of the earliest […]

Extract from an interview with Maurice Kukk who volunteers three days a week at the River Tweed Salmon Fishing Museum in Kelso. As part of the Tweed Stories project, oral historian, Harry Henderson recorded Maurice at the museum. Maurice was born in Coldstream in the early 1950s and brought up on a farm just over […]

Extract from an interview with Maurice Kukk who volunteers three days a week at the River Tweed Salmon Fishing Museum in Kelso. As part of the Tweed Stories project, oral historian, Harry Henderson recorded Maurice at the museum. Maurice was born in Coldstream in the early 1950s and brought up on a farm just over […]

The sun had set. It was a perfect, calm, June evening, a few days before the solstice. In mid-stream, the river flexed and twisted as it flowed over unseen contours, but ahead of me, by the bank, was a still pool reflecting the evening sky. Under the Chainbridge, Swallows skimmed and hawked hunting for moths […]

The end of the Northumberland Coast Path, an excellent walk. I thoroughly enjoyed doing the whole coast from Newcastle to Berwick in ten separate legs, the final one from Fenwick. What a wonderful finale as one finally reaches the Tweed, then look west towards the ancient old road bridge and the Roman remains. This story […]